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| Neurontin & Muscle Contractions Question, Please | 24 Jan 2004 03:05 GMT | 1 |
Have a strong facial muscle contraction problem caused by trauma which is presently being treated with Botox. This has been only partially successful. It has been suggested that I try Neurontin, but have several concerns and
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| I've come across references to a number of mailing lists such | 24 Jan 2004 02:52 GMT | 10 |
I've come across references to a number of mailing lists such as STAT-L and SAS-L. Does anyone have a listing of these lists, newsgroups, etc. and would you mind providing me with the information on how to subscribe to them?
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| FIL psychosis | 23 Jan 2004 20:01 GMT | 9 |
My FIL has been on a respirator for a while now. He doesn't know me at times and does strange things like ask to see his dead wife and stretching his arms out as if he is reaching for something. The doctor called it psychosis and said that it was related to the
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| after radiotherapy | 23 Jan 2004 09:42 GMT | 3 |
My father is suffering a lot from the side effect of the radiotherapy he was given to treat the esophagus cancer. It lasted for 1 month, but he is very coughing, short breathe now, heart beating fast (to 110/min) now and then. He's taken some antibiotics and oxygen, but didn't help ...
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| Advice for bluebottle stings | 23 Jan 2004 04:49 GMT | 14 |
Remedy that worked extremely well: Wash area stung with soap and warm water. Apply neat TCP(see below). The pain was effectively gone in a couple of hours, about six hours later the welts were gone too.
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| Vulva biopsy | 23 Jan 2004 01:42 GMT | 7 |
Can anyone tell me if epinephrine is added to the local anesthetic if a vulva biopsy is done under straight local? Thanks in advance for any answers.
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| Don't try to force psychiatric treatments upon anybody.... | 22 Jan 2004 16:58 GMT | 2 |
In two cases arising from the correctional context, a court has recognized that "[t]he forcible injection of medication into a nonconsenting person's body represents a substantial interference with that person's liberty." Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 210,229 (1990),
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| Water behind the ear | 22 Jan 2004 12:28 GMT | 2 |
I began feeling a muffled sensation in both my ears 2 days ago. Concerned me and I seen my MD. He told me there is water behind my ears in the Eustachian tubes. Prescribed me a decongestant and one day later is clearing. The Doc couldn't specify WHY.
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| Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) study on Acute Lower Back Problems in Adults | 22 Jan 2004 09:28 GMT | 1 |
Does anyone know where one can download a copy of this study? I downloaded it several years ago, but it seems to have been removed from the web, and the agency itself was seemingly absorbed into another agency, which then disappeared.
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| TMJ and plugged ear | 22 Jan 2004 05:38 GMT | 1 |
I have a TMJ disorder that usually doesn't give me any problems. About 2-3 weeks ago it really flared up. There isn't really any pain unless I eat something hard or chewy. I've been clenching my teeth and I'm sure that's what's currently causing my problem but Im trying hard to
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| Any idea on severe pain? | 21 Jan 2004 23:16 GMT | 6 |
This past Thursday I awoke with very severe left lower back pain that extended around to my left leg. I ended up going to the ER, my gallbladder enzymes were a little high, but only by a few points. They ran tests for kidney stones, nothing came up. When I take Darvocet or muscle ...
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| Cinnamon / insulin action / glucose intolerance | 21 Jan 2004 19:22 GMT | 12 |
J Agric Food Chem. 2004 Jan 14;52(1):65-70. Links Isolation and Characterization of Polyphenol Type-A Polymers from Cinnamon with Insulin-like Biological Activity. Anderson RA, Broadhurst CL, Polansky MM, Schmidt WF, Khan A, Flanagan VP,
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| Is there an alternative to surgery | 21 Jan 2004 16:42 GMT | 2 |
My mother has breast cancer with severe bone metastasis. She broke her right forearm in a fall with a clean fracture. She's right handed. Her heart is badly damaged from the either the chemo or the Herceptin and is only functioning at 25%. Her oncologist said that there is no
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| Doctor's refusal to prescribe antibiotics cause three year old to lose her legs | 21 Jan 2004 12:42 GMT | 55 |
It is criminal to label bacterial illnesses as viral without proof . Of course there is no proof as early on the symptoms of both are the same and even viral illnesses can cause high temparatures. In the days before antibiotics were discovered most people
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| Blood transfusion to increase T cells | 21 Jan 2004 05:24 GMT | 7 |
I have a simplistic theory, which is bound to be wrong for some reason, the question is why is it wrong. An HIV positive person with low T-cell count could in principle receive regular whole blood transfusions from people of matching blood
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