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aezpete@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu () writes:  >>can't imagine what it's like to have a penis, much less a foreskin. I >>guess if American medicine did an artistic job of circumcising every >>male, then the visual result would be somewhat more natural in >>appearance... >> >>The penile cancer thing has been *completely* debunked...she must be >>going to school on a South Pacific island. Tell her to check the Journal >>or Urology for circumcision articles. I remember at least 1 on an old >>Jewish man (cut at birth) who developed penile cancer....I mean, if the >>cancer risk was that great, the Europe who have been circumcising like >>crazy, too. Teaching a boy how to keep his cockhead clean is the issue: a >>little proper hygiene goes a long way - Americans are just too hung up on >>the penis to consider cleaning it: that's just way too much like >>mastubation. So you have surgical intervention that is basically >>unnecessary.  >Peter Schlumpf >University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  First off, use some decent terms if ya don't mind.  This is sci.med, not alt.sex.  Secondly, how absolutely bogus to assume that "American's are just too hung up on the penis....blah,blah".  I think most American's don't care about anything so comlicated as that.  They just think it "looks nicer".  Ask  a few of them and see what response you get.  Others still opt for circumcision due to religious traditions and beliefs.  Some think it is easier to clean.  Still others do it because "Daddy was".  Dont' be so naive as to think American's are afraid of sexuality.
Hi, I am doing a term paper on the syringe and I have found some information.  It is said that Charles Pravaz has invented the hypodermic needle, but then I have also found that Alexander Wood has invented it.  Does anyone know which one it is, of if it was anyone else?  If there is anymore information that is out there could you please send it to me. Thank you very much. Becky Olsen
In article <78846@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:  >This wouldn't happen to be the same thing as chiggers, would it? >A truly awful parasitic affliction, as I understand it.  Tiny bugs >dig deeply into the skin, burying themselves.  Yuck!  They have these >things in Oklahoma.  Close. My mother comes from Gainesville Tex, right across the border. They claim to be the chigger capitol of the world, and I believe them. When I grew up in Fort Worth it was bad enough, but in Gainesville in the summer an attack was guaranteed.
We will be holding a bake and craft sale at Communiversity in Princeton on   Nassau Street, Saturday April 24th 12-4 p.m. to benefit the Recurrent   Respiratory Papillomatosis Foundation, a nonprofit foundation established to   encourage research toward a cure for Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis.  Our   three year old daughter suffers from this disease.  Below is a press release   that appeared in local newspapers.  Hope you can join us.   On Saturday, April 24 as part of Communiversity in Princeton, a local family   will be having a bake and craft sale to raise money for and create public   awareness about a rare disease called Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis.  Bill and Marlene Stern's daughter Lindsay is afflicted with this disease   characterized by tumors attacking the inside of the larynx, vocal cords and   trachea.  Caused by a virus, the tumors grow, block the air passages and would   lead to death from suffocation without continual surgery to remove the growths.    Three year old Lindsay has undergone 11 operations thus far since her diagnosis   last year and faces the prospect of over a hundred operations throughout her   lifetime.    Even though the disease is hardly a household word, it has affected the lives   of enough people to inspire the formation of the Recurrent Respiratory   Papillomatosis Foundation,  a non-profit foundation whose goals are to provide   support for patients and families by networking patients and publishing a   newsletter, enhance  awareness of RRP at the local and national level, and aid   in the prevention, cure, and treatment.  Since medical researchers know that the virus causing the disease is similar to   those viruses causing warts, they feel a cure would be within reach if money   were available for research.  Because RRP is rare, it not only gets scant   attention but also paltry funds to search for a cure.  Part of the RRP   Foundation's mission is to change that.   Anyone interested in contributing items to the bake and craft sale, please call   Marlene or Bill at 609-890-0502.  Monetary donations can be made at the   Foundation's booth during Communiversity, April 24th, 12 to 4 p.m., in downtown   Princeton, or sent directly to:
menon@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Ravi or Deantha Menon) writes:  >aezpete@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu () writes:  >>>The penile cancer thing has been *completely* debunked...she must be >>>going to school on a South Pacific island. Tell her to check the Journal >>>or Urology for circumcision articles. I remember at least 1 on an old >>>Jewish man (cut at birth) who developed penile cancer....I mean, if the >>>cancer risk was that great, the Europe who have been circumcising like >>>crazy, too. Teaching a boy how to keep his cockhead clean is the issue: a >>>little proper hygiene goes a long way - Americans are just too hung up on >>>the penis to consider cleaning it: that's just way too much like >>>mastubation. So you have surgical intervention that is basically >>>unnecessary.  >>Peter Schlumpf >>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  As I recall, it is a statistical anomaly because of the sample involved in the studies. I am certain that if it were true the Europeans would be cutting kids right & left.  >First off, use some decent terms if ya don't mind.  This is sci.med, not >alt.sex.  >Secondly, how absolutely bogus to assume that "American's are just too hung >up on the penis....blah,blah".  I think most American's don't care about >anything so comlicated as that.  They just think it "looks nicer".  Ask  >a few of them and see what response you get.  Others still opt for >circumcision due to religious traditions and beliefs.  Some think it is >easier to clean.  Still others do it because "Daddy was".  I think alot do it blindly because "Dad" had it done.  But there are many who get bamboozled into it with the bogus cancer thing.  Awhile back some quack told a friend of mine that it would help prevent AIDS.  Yeah...Right! (Sarchasm)  >Dont' be so naive as to think American's are afraid of sexuality.   Oh YEAH ?  Scene: Navy boot camp  DI:		"Son, you smel awful! Dont you ever clean that thing?" Recruit:	"No Sir !" DI:		"Why the hell NOT!" Recruit:	"Your not sposed to touch down there?" DI:		"Why ?" Recruit:	"Cause thats the eye of god down there, an' your not s'posed to touch it..."  This did not happen 40 years ago, it happened 2 years ago.
JL> From: jlecher@pbs.org JL> > I would not classify a mild headache that was continuous for weeks JL> > as migraine, even if the other typical features were there (e.g., JL> > unilateral, nausea and vomiting, photophobia).  Migraines are, by JL> > common agreement, episodic rather than constant. JL> > JL> Well, I'm glad that you aren't my doctor, then, or I'd still be suffering. JL> Remember, I was tested for any other cause, and there was nothing. I'm JL> otherwise very healthy. JL> The nagging pain has all of the qualifications: it's on one side, and JL> frequently included my entire right side: right arm, right leg, right eye, JL> even the right side of my tongue hurt or tingled. Noise hurt, light hurt, JL> thinking hurt. When it got bad, I would lose my ability to read.  The differential diagnosis between migraine and non-migranous pain is not *always* important, because some therapies are effective in both (e.g., tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen).  Other therapies may be more specific: beta-blockers such as propranolol work better in migraine than tension-type headache.  The most important thing, from your perspective, is that you got relief.  Also, please understand that a diagnosis other than migraine does not necessarily mean "psychogenic"; I suspect that organic factors play as large a role in tension-type headache as in migraine.
In article <1993Apr22.211005.21578@scorch.apana.org.au>, bill@scorch.apana.org.au (Bill Dowding) writes: |> 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. |>  |> Bill from oz |>    Bill, No flame intended but you're way, way off base. In simple terms Kirilian photography registers the electromagnetical fields around objects, in simple, it takes pictures of your aura. |>   --  Greg
In article <1993Apr17.195202.28921@freenet.carleton.ca> ab961@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Allison) writes: >Does anyone know of any method to reduce this frequency? My younger brothers >each tried a skin transplant (thigh to nose lining), but their nosebleeds >soon returned. I've seen a reference to an herb called Rutin that is >supposed to help, and I'd like to hear of experiences with it, or other >techniques.  Rutin is a bioflavonoid, compounds found (among other places) in the rinds of citrus fruits.  These have been popular, especially in Europe, to treat "capillary fragility", and seemingly in even more extreme cases-- a few months ago, a friend was visiting from Italy, and he said that he'd had hemorrhoids, but his pharmacist friend sold him some pills.  Incredulously, I asked to look at them, and sure enough these contained rutin as the active ingredient.  I probably destroyed the placebo effect from my skeptical sputtering.  I have no idea how he's doing hemorrhoid-wise these days. The studies which attempted to look at the effect of these compounds in human disease and nutrition were never very well controlled, so the reports of positive results with them is mostly anecdotal.  This stuff is pretty much non-toxic, and probably inexpensive, so there's little risk of trying it, but I wouldn't expect much of a result.
In article <1993Apr15.135941.16105@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank) writes: |>  |> Here is another anecdotal story.  I am a picky eater and never wanted to  |> try chinese food, however, I finally tried some in order to please a |> girl I was seeing at the time.  I had never heard of Chinese restaurant |> syndrome.  A group of us went to the restaurant and all shared 6 different |> dishes.  It didn't taste great, but I decided it wasn't so bad.  We went |> home and went to bed early.  I woke up at 2 AM and puked my guts outs. |> I threw up for so long that (I'm not kidding) I pulled a muscle in |> my tongue.  Dry heaves and everything.  No one else got sick, and I'm |> not allergic to anything that I know of.   |>  |> Suffice to say that I wont go into a chinese restaurant unless I am  |> physically threatened.  The smell of the food makes me ill (and that *is* |> a psycholgical reaction).  When I have been dragged in to suffer |> through beef and broccoli without any sauces, I insist on no MSG.   |> I haven't gotten sick yet. |>  |> --   I had a similar reaction to Chinese food but came to a completly different conclusion. I've eaten Chinese food for ages and never had problems. I went with some Chinese Malaysian friends to a swanky Chinses rest. and they ordered lots of stuff I had never seen before. The only thing I can remember of that meal was the first course, scallops served in the shell with a soy-type sauce. I thought, "Well, I've only had scallops once and I was sick after but that could have been a coincidence". That night as I sat on the bathroom floor, sweating and emptying my stomach the hard way, I decided I would never touch another scallop. I may not be allergic but I don't want to take the chance.
Hi All,  Would anyone out there in 'net-land' happen to have an authentic, sure-fire way of making this great sauce that is used to adorn Gyro's and Souvlaki?  Thanks,
In article <1993Apr15.163923.25120@microsoft.com>, tomca@microsoft.com (Tom B. Carey) writes: |> OK, just for grins: |> - Kekule hypothesized a resonant structure for the aromatic benzene |> ring after waking from a dream in which a snake was swallowing his tail. |> - Archimedes formalized the principle of buoyancy while meditating in |> his bath.  Well, certainly in Archimedes case the description "while observing the phenomena in his bath" seems more accurate than "while meditating in his bath" -- it was, after all, a rather buoyancy intense environment.
In article <DRAND.93Mar26112932@spinner.osf.org> drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand) writes:  >So I'll ask this,  my neurologist just prescribed Cafergot and >Midrin as some alternatives for me to try.  He stated that >the sublingual tablets of ergotamine were no longer available. >Any idea why?  He also suggested trying 800 mg ibuprophen. >  I just found out about the sublinguals disappearing too.  I don't know why.  Perhaps because they weren't as profitable as cafergot. Too bad, since tablets are sometimes vomited up by migraine patients and they don't do any good flushed down the toilet.  I suspect we'll be moving those patients more and more to the DHE nasal spray, which is far more effective. --  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <1993Apr20.004158.6122@cnsvax.uwec.edu> David Nye, nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes: >  >>>I believe it is illegal for a residency to discriminate against FMGs. >  >>Is that true?  I know some that won't even interview FMGs. >  >I think a case could be made that this is discriminatory, particularly >if an applicant had good board scores and recommendations but wasn't >offered an interview, but I don't know if it has ever gone to court.  FMGs who are not citizens are, like all aliens, in a difficult situation. Only citizens get to vote here, so non-citizens are of little or no interest to legislators. Also, the non-citizen may well be in the middle of processing for resident alien status. There is a stron sense that rocking the boat (eg. suing a residency program) will delay the granting of that status, perhaps for ever.
My brother's affine has recently been diagnosed with Sweet's syndrome. Also called steroid resistant Sweet's syndrome.  	This syndrome started after she had had Iodine 131 treatment for hyperthyroidism. She'd been reluctant to have treatment for the hyperthyroidism for many years and apparently started to show exaustion from it.   	I understand that she may still be testing high in thyroid level but she's isn't being treated by an endocrinologist. Her previous endocrinologist bowed out when she entered the hospital. She entered the hospital because of the Sweet's syndrome symptoms (skin lesions).  I've looked through the last two years of Medline and didn't find an abstract mentioning a correlation between thyroid and Sweets. .   I checked a handbook which said that Sweet's was associated with leukemia.  I'd like a reccomndation for experts who are in New York City or who travel to New York City. For the sweets and perhaps for the endocrinology.  Any information that might help. Apparently there hasn't been much improvement in her condition over the past several months.
In article <etxmow.735561695@garboc29> etxmow@garbo.ericsson.se (Mats Winberg) writes:  >   Isn't there a relatively new treatment for kidney stones involving >   a non-invasive use of ultra-sound where the patient is lowered >   into some sort of liquid when he/she undergoes treatment? I'm sure >   I've read about it somewhere. If I remember it correctly it is a >   painless and effective treatment. >   A couple of weeks ago I visited a hospital here in Stockholm and >   saw big signs showing the way to the "Kidney stone chrusher" ...  I saw this a few years ago on "Tomorrow's World" (low-brow BBC technology news program).  The patient is lowered into a bath of de-ionized water and carefully positioned.  High intensity pressure waves are generated by an electric spark in the water (you don't get electrocuted because de-ionised water does not conduct).  These waves are focused on the kidneys by a parabolic reflector and cause the stone to break up.  This is completely painless.  Of course, you then have to get these little bits of gravel through the urethra.  Ouch!  Paul.
In article <10600@blue.cis.pitt.edu> doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle) writes: :Chronic persistent hepatitis is usually diagnosed when someone does a liver :biopsy on a patient that has persistently elevated serum transaminases months :after a bout of acute viral hepatitis, or when someone is found to have :persistently elevated transaminases on routine screening tests. The degree of :elevation (in the serum transaminases) can be trivial, or as much as ten times :normal. Other blood chemistries are usually normal.  :As a rule, patients with CPH have no clinical signs of liver disease.  :Chronic active hepatitis can also be asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic, at :least initially, and that's why it's important to tell them apart by means of :a biopsy. The patient with CPH only needs to be reassured. The patient with :CAH needs to be treated.  I just went back to the chapter in Cecil on chronic hepatitis.  It seems that indeed most cases of CPH are persistant viral hepatitis, whereas there are a multitude of potential and probable causes for CAH (viral, drugs, alcohol, autoimmune, etc.).  Physicians seem to have a variety of "thresholds" for electing to biopsy someone's liver.  Personally, I think that if the patient is asymptomatic, with only slight transaminitis and normal albumin and PT, one can simply follow them closely and not add the potential risks of a biopsy.  Others may well biopsy such a patient, thus providing these samples for study.  It would be interesting to see if anyone's done any decision analysis on this.
In article <1993Mar26.213522.26224@ncsu.edu> andrea@unity.ncsu.edu (Andrea M Free-Kwiatkowski) writes: >I would like to know if there is any new information out there about the >subject or any new studies being conducted.  I am confident in my >pediatrician and her communication with the people in Chapel Hill, but >since this is a life-long disorder and genetically transferred I would >like keep current.  I do realize that since this is a relatively new >disorder (first documented in 1974 in a fertility clinic in Scandanavia) >and is therefore "controversial".  I do not know a lot about this, except from seeing one patient with "Kartagener's syndrome", which is a form of immotile cilia syndrome in which there is situs inversus, bronchiectasis, and chronic infections. "Situs inversus" means that organs are on the wrong side of the body, and can be complete or partial. It is interesting medically because the normal location of organs is caused in part by the "normal" rotation associated with ciliary motion, so that in absence of this, laterality can be "random." People with situs inversus are quite popular at medical schools, because of their rarity, and the fact that most doctors get a bit upset when they can't find the patient's heart sounds (because they're on the wrong side).   According to Harrison's, immotile cilia syndrom is an autosomal recessive, which should imply that on average one child in four in a family would be affected. But there may be much more current information on this, and as usual in medicine, we may be talking about more than one conditiion. I would suggest that you ask your pediatrician about contacting a medical geneticics specialist, of which there is probably one at NCSU.
In article <1993Apr26.204319.11231@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.A. Story) writes: =In article <1rgrsvINNmpr@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes: =>Greg:Flame definitely intended here.  Bill was making fun of the misspelling.  =>Go look up the word "krill."  Also, the correct spelling is Kirlian.  It =>involves taking photographs of corona discharges created by attaching the =>subject to a high-voltage source, not of some "aura."  It works equally well =>with inanimate objects. = =True.. but what about showing the missing part of a leaf?  Is this ="corona discharge"?  Yup.  The demonstration to which you refer consists of placing a leaf between the plates, and taking a Kirlian photograph of it.  You then cut off part of the leaf, put the top plate back on, and take another Kirlian photograph.  You see pretty much the same image in both cases.  Turns out the effect isn't nearly so striking if you take the trouble to clean the plates between photographs.  Seems that the moisture from the leaf that you left on the place conducts electricity.  Surprise, surprise! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
In article dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes: >In article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:  Good grief again.  Why the anger?  I must have really touched a raw nerve.  Let's see:  I had symptoms that resisted all other treatments.  Sporanox totally alleviated them within one week.  Hmmm, I must be psychotic.  Yesss! That's it - my illness was all in my mind.  Thanks Steve for your correct diagnosis - you must have a lot of experience being out there in trenches, treating hundreds of patients a week.  Thank you.  I'm forever in your debt.  Jon  (oops, gotta run, the men in white coats are ready to take me away, haha, to the happy home, where I can go twiddle my thumbs, basket weave, and moan about my sinuses.)  --   Charter Member --->>>  INFJ Club.
I have been hearing bad thing about amalgam dental fillings.  Some say the lead/ mercury leeches into your system and this is bad.  And I have recently heard that there is some suspicion that the mercury is a breeding ground for bacteria that will be resistant to antibiotics.     My dentist wants to use an amalgam filling for me in a place where I have two cavaties in one tooth and wants to use one filling to cover both. He says that composite filling don't hold up well when they are large. So, I would like to know if there are any other choices besides amalgam and composite.  And, should I really even be worried about amalgam?  I heard that some scandanavian country does not even use them any more-  is this true.  Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated.   Thanks!
In article <1qk708INNa12@mojo.eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes: >You can also swab the inside of your nose with Bacitracin using a >Q tip. Bacitracin is an antibiotic that can be bought OTC as an >ointment in a tube. The doctor I listen to on the radio says to apply >it for 30 days, while you are taking other antibiotics by mouth.  I have a new doctor who gave me a prescription today for something called  Septra DS.  He said it may cause GI problems and I have a sensitive stomach  to begin with.  Anybody ever taken this antibiotic.  Any good?  Suggestions  for avoiding an upset stomach?  Other tips?