waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
Hi.  I have a friend who is interested in subscribing to this newsgroup. Unfortunatly she does not have usenet access. If someone could send her a faq and info on how to subscribe, we'd be very appreciative If you want to send it to me, you can and I will get it to her. I do not read this newsgroup regularly though so e-mail please. Thank you Jody --    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jody Rebecca		Colby College		Majors: History/Sociology 			Class o' '94             E-Mail:  jrgould@colby.edu 	 samuel@paul.rutgers.edu  Fantasy, Music, Colors, and Animals will lead this society out of oppression.
In article <noringC5Fnx2.2v2@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes: >In article Tammy.Vandenboom@launchpad.unc.edu (Tammy Vandenboom) writes: > >>Here's a potentially stupid question to possibly the wrong news group, but. . >> >>Can men get yeast infections? Spread them? What kind of symptoms? >>Similar as women's?  I have a yeast infection and my husband (who is a >>natural paranoid on a good day) is sure he's gonna catch it and keeps >>asking me what it's like.  I'm not sure what his symptoms would be. .  > >The answer is yes and no.  I'm sure others on sci.med can expand on this. > >Jon  I know from personal experience that men CAN get yeast infections. I  get rather nasty ones from time to time, mostly in the area of the scrotum and the base of the penis. They're nowhere near as dangerous for me as for many women, but goddamn does it hurt in the summertime! Even in the wintertime, when I sweat I get really uncomfy down there. The best thing I can do to keep it under control is keep my weight down and keep cool down there. Shorts in 60 degree weather, that kind of thing. And of course some occasional sun.
Colonics were a health fad of the 19th century, which persists to this day. Except for certain medical conditions, there is no reason to do this. Certainly no normal person should do this.
I am posting the following for my brother. Please post your replies or send him email to his address at the end of his message. Thank you. ____________________________________________________________________  My supervisor is looking for a image analysis software for MS DOS. We need something to measure lengths and areas on micrographs. Sometime in the future, we may expand to do some densitometry for gels, etc. We've found lots of ads and info for the Jandel Scientific products: SigmaScan and Java.  But we have not been able to find any competing products. We would appreciate any comments on these products and  suggestions / comments on other products we should consider. Thanks.     Donald
Have I mailed this to the correct newsgroup(s)? Are there other newsgroup(s) which cover the following topic? --------  Has anyone with myopia (short-sightedness) ever done the Bates eye-exercises?  If so, could you please e-mail me the following information:  	- age and state of sight before exercises were commenced;  	- type, frequency, and length of time spent on exercises performed;  	- improvements noticed immediately after performing exercises;  	- length of period before any improved sight deteriorates;  Thanks in advance for any replies. I'll summarise and post results if there's enough interest.   - Jonathan Goldstein
My doc handed me 10mg samples of CLARITIN (brand of Ioratadine Tablet from Schering Corp.)  I tried to find it in the PDR to no avail. I do remember she mentioned this drug was relatively new to the US but available overseas for quite some time.  Looking mostly for side-effect, contraindications, and mode of action  such that it differs from Seldane and Hismanal.  Email or newsgroup is fine. Thanx in advance.
In article <1993Apr21.231301.3050@seas.gwu.edu> sheryl@seas.gwu.edu (Sheryl Coppenger) writes: <In article <1993Apr21.024103.29880@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes: <>Hismanal (astemizole) is most definitely linked to weight gain. <>It really is peculiar that some antihistamines have this effect, <>and even more so an antihistamine like astemizole which purportedly <>doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier and so tends not to cause <>drowsiness. < <The original poster mentioned fatigue.  I had that too, but it was <mostly due to the really bizarre dreams I was having -- I wasn't getting <any rest.  My doctor said that was a common reaction.  If astemizole <doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, how does it cause that side <effect?  Any ideas?
In article <1993Apr12.204033.126645@zeus.calpoly.edu> dfield@flute.calpoly.edu (InfoSpunj (Dan Field)) writes: >I've been invited to spend a couple weeks this summer rafting down the >Mississippi.  My journey partners want to live off of river water and >catfish along the route.  Should I have any concerns about pollution or >health risks in doing this?  You'd have to purify the river water first.  I'm not sure how practical that is with the Mississippi.  You'd better check with health agencies along the way to see if there are toxic chemicals in the river.  If it is just microorganisms, those can be filtered or killed, but you may need activated charcoal or other means to purify from chemicals. Better be same than sorry.  Obviously, drinking the river without processing it is likely to make you sick from bacteria and parasites. --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
In article <1q6rie$mo2@access.digex.net> kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes:  >So, why are the scans so expensive, and what can be done to reduce the >expense?  Isn't it just a box with some big magnets, a radio transmitter, >and an attached PC?  The magnets are huge!  Good MRI sets with big (>1.5 Tesla) magnets cost millions of dollars.  Then, the radiologist wants $400 for reading each scan.  --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
In article <1993Apr13.093300.29529@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes: > >"Weight rebound" is a term used in the medical literature on >obesity to denote weight regain beyond what was lost in a diet >cycle.  There are any number of terms which mean one thing to  Can you provide a reference to substantiate that gaining back the lost weight does not constitute "weight rebound" until it exceeds the starting weight?  Or is this oral tradition that is shared only among you obesity researchers?  --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
gary.schuetter (garyws@cbnewsg.cb.att.com) wrote:  : 	 :         Hello,  :         Just one quick question: :         My father has had a back problem for a long time and doctors :         have diagnosed an operation is needed. Since he lives down in :         Mexico, he wants to know if there is a hospital anywhere in :         the United States particulary famous for this kind of surgery, :         kind of like Houston has a reputation for excellent doctors :         in eye surgery. Any additional info or pointers will be :         appreciated a whole lot!...  There is one hospital that is here in New York City that is famous for its orthopedists, namely the Hospital for Special Surgery. They are located on the upper east side of manhattan. If you want their address and phone let me know, i'll get them, i dont know them off hand.
Hello,  does anyone know about allergic reactions caused by the developer/toner of laser printers? What chemical stuff is involved?  Thanks in advance!  Reinhard
Anyone have any information on the effects/origin of oxaprozin? It's marketed under the name "DAYpro", and appears to be an anti-inflammatory.  Is it similar to naproxin?  Stronger?  TIA
In article <1993Apr5.123315.48837@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> bennett@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >How long does it take a smoker's lungs to clear of the tar after quitting?  >Does your chances of getting lung cancer decrease quickly or does it take >a considerable amount of time for that to happen?  The answer to your first question is rather difficult to answer without doing a lot of autopsies.  The second question is something that's been known for some time.  It appears that within about 15 years of quitting smoking a person's risk for developing lung cancer drops to that of the person who never smoked (assuming you do not get lung cancer in the interim!).  The risk to someone who smoked the equivalent of a pack per day for 40 years is around 20 times as high as a non-smoker.  Still rather low overall, but significant.  Personally, I'd be more concerned about heart disease secondary to smoking -- it's much more common, and even a small increase in risk is significant there.
In article <C4Hyou.1Iz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: >In article <188@ky3b.UUCP> km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum) writes: > >>Ditto. Disease is a great leveling experience, however. Some people >>are very much afronted to find out that all the money in the world >>does not buy one health. Everyone looks the same when they die. > >If money does not buy one health, why are we talking about paying >for medical expenses for those not currently "adequately covered"?  Herman, I would think you of all people would/could distinguish between "health" and "treatment of disease." All the prevention medicine people preach this all the time. You cannot buy health. You can buy treatment of disease, assuming you are lucky enough to have a disease which can be treated. A rich person with a terminal disease is a bit out of luck. There is no such thing as "adequately covered" and there never will be.   And for what it's worth, I'll be the first to admit that all my patients die.
In article <roos.49@Operoni.Helsinki.FI> roos@Operoni.Helsinki.FI (Christophe Roos) writes: >I am looking for a rat cell line of adrenal gland / cortical cell  -type. I  >have been looking at ATCC without success and would very much appreciate any  >help.  I shot off a response to this last night that I've tried to cancel.  It was  only a few minutes later while driving home that I remembered that your  message does specifically say cortical.  My first reaction had been to suggest the PC12 pheochromocytoma line.  That may still be a good compromise, depending on what you're doing.  Have you concidered using a mouse cell line from one  of the SV40 T antigen transgenic lines?  Another alternative might be primary cells from bovine adrenal cortex.
I know that there is a relationship between Fibromyalgia and deep  sleep.  I believe that there are five levels of sleep.  I think  that R.E.M. sleep is the third deepest level of sleep and that  there are two deeper levels of sleep.  If I am in error in any of  this, please let me know.  Which level of sleep is thought to be deficient in people with  Fibromyalgia?  Are there any known sleep disturbances associated  with CFS?  What sleep disturbances (if any) are associated with  clinical depression?  Do antidepressants correct the sleep  disturbances in these diseases?  Are there any good books or  medical journal articles about sleep disturbances and these  diseases?  Thank you in advance for all replies.
-*----- In article <1993Apr15.150550.15347@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> ccreegan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles L. Creegan) writes: > What about Kekule's infamous derivation of the idea of benzene rings > from a daydream of snakes in the fire biting their tails?  Is this > specific enough to count?  Certainly it turns up repeatedly in basic > phil. of sci. texts as an example of the inventive component of > hypothesizing.   I think the question is: What is extra-scientific about this?    It has been a long time since anyone has proposed restrictions on where one comes up with ideas in order for them to be considered legitimate hypotheses.  The point, in short, is this: hypotheses and speculation in science may come from wild flights of fancy,  daydreams, ancient traditions, modern quackery, or anywhere else.
-*---- I agree with everything that Lee Lady wrote in her previous post in this thread.  In case this puzzles people, I would like to expand on two of her comments.  In article <C5JoDH.9IG@news.Hawaii.Edu> lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes: > Avoiding mistakes is certainly highly desirable.  However it is also  > widely acknowledged that perfectionism is inimicable to creativity.  > ... In the extreme case, a perfectionist becomes so paralyzed by all > the possible mistakes he might make that he is unable to even leave > the house.    One of the most important (and difficult) aspects of reasoning about empirical investigation lies in understanding the context, scope, and importance of the various arguments and pieces of evidence that are marshalled for a claim.  Some errors break the back of a piece of research, some leave a hole that needs to be filled in, and some are trivial in their importance.  It is a grave mistake to confuse these.  Past snippets from this thread:  >>> I doubt if Einstein used any formal methodology.  ....  >> He also proposed numerous experiments which if performed would >> distinguish a universe in which special relativity holds from >> one in which it does not. ...  Back to Lee Lady:  > These are not the rules according to many who post to sci.med and > sci.psychology.  According to these posters  "If it's not supported by > carefully designed controlled studies then it's not science."  These posters are making the mistake that I have previously criticized of adhering to a methodological recipe.  A "carefully designed and controlled study" is neither always possible nor always important.  (On the other hand, if someone is proposing a remedy that supposedly alleviates a chronic medical problem, we have enough knowledge of the errors that have plagued *this* kind of claim to ask for a "carefully designed and controlled study" to alleviate our skepticism.)  Rules such as "support the hypothesis by a carefully designed and controlled study" are too narrow to apply to *all* investigation. I think that the requirements for particular reasoning to be convincing depends greatly on the kinds of mistakes that have occurred in past reasoning about the same kinds of things.  (To reuse the previous example, we know that conclusions from uncontrolled observations of the treatment of chronic medical problems are notoriously problematic.)
I have just started taking allergy shots a month ago and is  still wondering what I am getting into. A friend of mine told me that the body change every 7 years (whatever that means) and I don't need those antibody-building allergy shots at all. Does that make sense to anyone?
>>       Hello, >>Does anybody know if sarchoidosis is a mortem desease ? >>(i.e if someone who tooke this desease can be kill >>bye this one ?) > >People have died from sarcoid, but usually it is not >fatal and is treatable. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and >geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon."  >----------------------------------------------------------------------------  Hi there I'm suffering from Sarcoidosis at present.  Although it's shown as a chronic & rare tissue disorder, it is thankfully NOT life threatening.  The very worsed thing that can happen to a non-treated sufferer is glaucoma.  My specialists are bombarding me with Prednisolone E.C. (a cortico-steriod) and after four months at 20mg a day, it's totally done away with my enlarged lymph glands, so somethings happening for the good!  Cheers Nigel
todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey) writes:  >I think that's the correct spelling.. >	I am looking for any information/supplies that will allow >do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I'm thinking >that education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for >sale, but I don't know any of the companies. Any info is greatly >appreciated.  Krillean photography involves taking pictures of minute decapods resident in  the seas surrounding the antarctic. Or pictures taken by them, perhaps.
I have bad luck and got a VD called <Granuloma ingunale>, which involves the growth of granules in the groin.  I found out about it by checking medicine books and I found the prescriptions.  And I know I can just go to a clinic to get it cured.  BUT unfortunately I am serving my duty in the army right now and I think it's impossible to prevent anyone from knowing this if I take leaves  every day for two weeks for treatment.  Thus I bought the prescribed tablets at some drugstore, but to cure it I must get INJECTION of <Streptomycin>, with a dose of 1g every 12 hours, for at least 10 days.  I can probably buy the  tools and this solution somewhere but I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO INJECTION BY MYSELF ! Can any kind people here tell me:  If it's possible to do it? Can I do it on my arm? or it must be done on the hip only??  Any info is welcome and please write me or post your help SOON!! (I am already taking the tablets ..and I can't wait!!)  Please don't flame me for posting this, and don't judge me. I've learned a  lesson and all I need now is REAL MEDICAL HELP.
In sci.med, rdd@uts.ipp-garching.mpg.de (Reinhard Drube) writes: >Hello, > >does anyone know about allergic reactions caused by the developer/toner >of laser printers? What chemical stuff is involved? > >Thanks in advance! > >Reinhard > >email: rdd@ibma.ipp-garching.mpg.de   Do I ever!!!!!!  After 2 years of having health problems that had been cleared up w/allery shots, and not knowing why, I went and was re-tested. I actually did better than when I had been tested 2 years ago.... Then putting 2 + 2 together, I realized that it all started back up when the laser printer came into the office.  I kept track of the usage, and on hi use days, I was worse.  I got better over the weekends....  The laser printer is gone, I'm 100% better!!!..... Whether it is the toner dust or chemicals, I dont know (I am highly allergic to dust...), but it definitely was the laser printer....    		     brenda peters 		     carderock div, nswc, david taylor model basin 		     bethesda, md  20084  		     e-mail :   cape@dtvms.dt.navy.mil 				 or
K(>  king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes: K(> K(> RR>  ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth) wrote: K(> RR>  OTOH, who are we kidding, the New England Medical Journal in 1984 K(> RR>  ran the heading: "Ninety Percent of Diseases are not Treatable by K(> RR>  Drugs or Surgery," which has been echoed by several other reports. K(> RR>  No wonder MDs are not amused with alternative medicine, since K(> RR>  the 20% magic of the "placebo effect" would award alternative  K(> RR>  practitioners twice the success rate of conventional medicine... K(>   K(>  1: "90% of diseases" is not the same thing as "90% of patients". K(>   K(>     In a world with one curable disease that strikes 100 people, and nine K(>     incurable diseases which strikes one person each, medical science will cure K(>     91% of the patients and report that 90% of diseases have no therapy. K(>   K(>  2: A disease would be counted among the 90% untreatable if nothing better than K(>     a placebo were known.  Of course MDs are ethically bound to not knowingly K(>     dispense placebos... K(>   K(>     -dk    Hmmm... even  *without*  the  ;-)  at the end, I didn't think anyone  was going to take the mathematics or statistics of my post seriously.    I only hope that you had the same thing in mind with your post,   otherwise you would need at least TWO  ;-)'s  at the end to help   anyone understand your calculations above...    --Ron--
In article <5531@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>, roxannen@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us wrote: >  > I recently heard of some testing of a new migraine drug called sumatripton > (I have no idea of the actual spelling) that supposedly utilizes a chemical > that trips neuro-transmitters.  My mother has regular migraines and nothing > seems to help - does anyone know anything about this new drug?  Is it in > a testing phaze or anywhere near approval?  Does it seem to be working? >  My girlfriend just started taking this drug for her migranes.  It really helped her get through the rebound withdrawl when she got off analgesics.  She doesn't have a mail account, but asked me to forward this:  "Glaxo is the distributor; Imitrex is the drug's brand name.  It works.  She can call her pharmacy for more info. The "miracle" drug has been used for years in Europe and for some time in Canada.  Trials in the U.S. were completed and the drug hit the US market at the end of March.  Some pharmacies don't stock it yet.  Presently it needs to be injected subcutaneously; although testing is starting with a nasal spray form.  It mimics serotonin (its molecular structure that fits onto pain receptors looks identical to serotonin on a model I saw)"
In article <C5sqv8.EDB@acsu.buffalo.edu> SFEGUS@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >In article <79857@cup.portal.com> >mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes: >  >> >>No, there is something called the "Delany Amendment" which makes carcinogenic >>food additives illegal in any amount.  This was passed by Congress in the >  >I think what we have to keep in mind is that even though it may be illegal to >commercially produce/sell food with carcinogenic substances, it is not illegal >for people to do such to their own food (smoking, etc).  Is this true? >  Whoa. What did you say your name was? Address, SSN? Smoking foods, eh? I think the gov't would like to know about this...
In article <YfqmleK00iV185Co5L@andrew.cmu.edu>, Lawrence Curcio <lc2b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes... >I've seen people in their forties and fifties become disoriented and >demented during hospital stays. In the examples I've seen, drugs were >definitely involved.  >  >My own father turned into a vegetable for a short time while in the >hospital. He was fifty-three at the time, and he was on 21 separate >drugs...  No wonder he became confused!  With so many drugs, it is almost impossible to know which one is causing the problem.  And because some drugs  potentiate the effect of each other, they can make the side effects all the worse, and even dangerous.  (kinda like mixing alcohol and  antihistamines!)  >...he was disoriened [the doctors thougt ] they should put him on something >else as well!  Unfortunately, doctors prescribe drugs to treat the side effects of the drugs a patient is receiving.  If one drug they are taking causes the patient's blood pressure to go up, many times an antihypertensive is prescribed instead of re-evaluating the need for the original drug. This is why many older adults are trying to take a dozen or so drugs at home!!!!  >....procure a list of the drugs your grandmother is getting, and discuss >it with an independent doc. Her problems may not be the effect of HALDOL >at all. HALDOL may have been used validly, or it may have been >prescribed because OTHER medication confused her, and because the >hospital normally prescribes HALDOL for the confused elderly.
Am looking for network access to recent research into treatments for precocious puberty.  If you know of specifics, would appreciate email.  I have plenty of general textbook type references.  Have a niece whose daughter is afflicted.  The mother is an RN and has done a rather exhaustive search of printed material.   Pls Email suggestions to  lumensa@lub001.lamar.edu  Thanx. --   ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dale Parish - Orange, Texas            | Is the surface of a planet the Lamar's Token Perpetual Student        | proper place for a developing  (409)745-(vox)3899;(rec)1581;dat(2507) | industrial civilization?