Medicine and its related products and regulations

[See today's posting.  --MC]

I would like to start a collection of accounts of improvements in fitness,
diet, weight, etc.  If you have made a substantial change along these lines,
I’d like to hear from you.  If you prefer to remain anonymous, indicate that
in your message and I will strip all identification.

Please mail accounts to cole…@cs.ucla.edu (and post, too, if you like).

Here are some points you might address:
– What changes did you make? (diet, exercise, etc.)
– What have you accomplished? (statistics: weight loss, body fat, blood
pressure, cholesterol, lap times, etc.)
– How long have you sustained these changes/habits?
– What motivated you to change?
– What specific techniques, plans, etc., that you used would you recommend to
others?
– Are there any that you would recomment against?
– How long has it taken to effect these changes?
– What sort of process was it?  (e.g. two steps forward and one back)
– What’s it like now?  How does it feel to have made the change?
– Do you feel the change is permanent?
– What are your plans for the future?
– Any succinct advice to those who might follow you?

Thanks,
Mike Coleman

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   My father weent into surgery a short while ago to be treated for
Malignant Melanoma.  He seems to have recovered fine from it and
keeps telling us that he has been healed.  Unfortunately, there seems
to be a lot of confusion about the severity of this problem.
   Could someone tell me what the success rate in curing this?  Also,
my dad is an avid sailor.  Is it a problem for him to go out in the
sun?
   Please email any responses to me.  If there is a desire, I will
post a summary of the responses.
   Thanks.

                                                Pete

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I’d like to know if anyone reading this might be able to give me a hand
. I would like to obtain information on the medical education which is
offered by the universities in Spain.  I seem to be unable to find any
information here locally, and thus my message.

I would like to know if anyone might be able to answer the following
questions:

        1. Are there any spanish medical faculty which read messages on
                this net
        2. Of the numerous medical colleges in spain, which are rated
better than others.
        3. What is the quality of spanish continuing medical education
        4. Will a spanish medical degree obtained after 92 allow one to
practice in any other of the european community member countries?

        I’m posting this message for a friend who has recently graduated
with an Honours Bsc physiology/Pharmacology degree and is looking into
studying in spain (has dual canadian/spanish nationality).

        Any help, and especially contacts in spain would be greatly
appreciated.

        Gracias,

        Thanks,

Robert Guerra  |Internet:robert.guerra%canrem.u…@cs.toronto.edu
                        :guerra%spocom.u…@cs.toronto.ca
Toronto, Canada|UUCP    :lsuc!canrem!robert.guerra

   My girl-friend has Addisons Disease, and I would like to know more about
it. I don’t have any kind of medical background so if you know about this
disease, please keep it somewhat simple. Thanks!

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Uucp: …{gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!157!3!Bill.Schwartz
Internet: Bill.Schwa…@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org

I have occasional stomach pains — burning sometimes, seems
correlated with coffee and bad eating habits.

I have been told by a doctor to have 2 sets X-rays taken,
one involving a preparation of barium swallows, the other
barium enema.

I will probably do it, but I hesitate because I do not know
the tradeoffs here — is barium something I want in my body?
What does it do? How long does it stay? What are the diagnostic
benefits of the X-rays?

Tnx, f
starnet!bass!la…@apple.com

(Yes, I should have asked the doctor but I didn’t think at the
time, and she was only a subsitute filling in ….)

For a long time, I have wanted to acquire a taste for insects. For a while,
what stopped me was ignorance of what one can eat and how one can prepare it.
In recent years, books have been appearing containing answers to such
questions. But I am unsure how to proceed. The reason is that I am
concerned about the fact that there are a lot of insecticides in use
and that lots of insects are infected by parasites. The same is presumably
true of the plants and other species such as fowl, fish and mammals that I
usually eat, but at least the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug
Administration take a slight interest in the matter in such cases. By way of
contrast, I am not aware of any federal regulations or inspection of insects
intended for human consumption.

Can someone address my concerns in this matter ?

Please reply to me by email since I do not read news.

Allan Adler
g…@ms.uky.edu

I am hoping that maybe someone may be able to help me.  i am plagued
with sinusitis and am usually miserable between october and may.
if my son gets a cold; i get a sinus infection.  if my husband gets
the sniffles; i get a sinus infection.  i HATE taking stuff like
sudafed because it makes my heart rev up and i become quite nervous.

a couple of solution i have  tried with limited success was using
salt water and inhaling it.  this does work but with the fluctuating
weather, i still get congested.  

do any of you have any suggestions on how to get through this lengthy
’sinus season’ just short of moving?

thanks in advance, cindy

 AK>From: ifaq…@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Kitchen)

 AK>        What I know about laser surgery…
 AK>The excimer laser is a moderate powered laser that makes much more
 AK>precise
 AK>incisions than a scalple. By varying the power and length of time on a
 AK>point,
 AK>you can vary the depth of the cut very accurately. Also because of the
 AK>speed
 AK>in which such work can be done and the precision of the laser, many
 AK>more
 AK>adjustment can be made to the lens, which produces more improvements to
 AK>vision. The type of laser would be helpful to know, but I speculate it
 AK>is
 AK>probably the usual Argon or Krypton lasers. The Krypton a friend of
 AK>mine
 AK>uses for laser shows can be gentle enough to be barely visible, but
 AK>powerful
 AK>enough to light a cigarette in the audience ( Frightening, by the way
 AK>).

I wish that the above was true re the EXCIMER laser and corneal ablation but
the actuality is somewhat less than the theory. Medicine is not practiced by
wish fulfillment.

Leo Bores, M.D.

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Uucp: …{gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!15.25!Leo.Bores
Internet: Leo.Bo…@p25.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org

I seem to remember that although an improvement in diet and general health
has been the most important factor in decreasing the average age of
menarche, exposure to daylight length was also a factor.
Girls in the tropics (where day-length vs night-length does not vary a great
deal between winter and summer) entered menarche earlier than girls in the
latitudes further away from the equator. The further away from the equator,
the larger the disparaty between summer day/night and winter day/night and
meanarche is postponed. Something to do with the pineal gland.
I also deemly remember that girls born blind or blinded in early childhood
where the damage involves the retina and/or optic nerve, had a tendency to
enter menarche later – apparently the day/night signals to the pineal gland
come via the retina & optic nerve.
The effect from the pineal may only be small, since menarche will
eventually take place.
Has anyone any updated infromation on this?

 Ri>From: s…@fwi.uva.nl (Richard ing.)

 Ri>I expect that a lot of medici will have the same problem.
 Ri>Checking an artical with any commercial Speller leaves the
 Ri>writer with a bunch of (to the spell-checker) unknown medical
 Ri>terms.
 Ri>So, can one of you point us the way to a list of medical (English and
 Ri>(semi-) Latin) terms.

Dorlands Medical Dictionary is a standard. Most well known word processors
have accessory medical and legal dictionaries for them.

Leo Bores, M.D.

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