Reasons for nudism:
1) Get an even tan.
2) The nude experience - you should be naked, yet forget your nudity.
  [note: it is quite possible to be "naked," and yet not really be

I'd like to ask doctors on this board if they feel annual physicals
for healthy people in their 30s are really necessary.  Last year I had
a complete checkup which included bloodwork (9 vials were taken),
urinalysis, blood pressure, electro-cardiogram, echo-cardiogram -- no

In another newsgroup I frequent (rec.motorcycles) there are numerous
threads about a man who hit a deer and then slammed into a rocky wall.
His injuries were severe. He was a heavy smoker apparently. There are
frequent updates about his condition, and today's report states:

Hey Doe
Why do you hate iron so much?  I've had low iron before.  It was the
worst feeling in the world.  It felt like a cold death was impending.
Stop the iron post already.  If you want people to avoid meat, just

I must depend on the VA for medical. I have developed a umbilical hernia
and they say no surgery because I am high risk due to bad heart, high
dose prednisone, and over weight (6'2" 240lbs) They say... no big deal..
just live with it until/unless it becomes acute and then they will

Have you ever experienced the oscilloscope shows the frequency around
600Hz when a (real) mouse touched the probe of oscilloscope? I thought
it might be caused by the bioelectric current through mouse's body.
Actually I measured the bioelectric current on healthy mouse and the

I would greatly appreciate any feedback from the members of this Group
to the first draft of my short book review "COPING WITH METHUSELAH"
(see below).
This book review was commissioned to me by  "The New England Journal

Hello all, well this may sound unusual but I am having intermittent
catheterisations due to a problem in the bladder, and up to day I was not
trying to use the bladder during the procedure. However I thought to use the
bladder a bit at the end just to make sure the bladder got empty ...

Why is the human body at 37 degrees celcius?
Thanks,
Jeff

I need to write this while it is so fresh and clear in my mind and
because a major milestone of Experimental Proof has arrived for
Parkinsons that implicates both Alzheimers and Prion disease to have
similar patterns. But this is my history as attested by the thousands of

                        TWO DAY COLD and FLU CURE
              UNTIL COLD IS CURED, EAT *ONLY* ALKALINE REACTING FOODS:
                   FRUITS, FRESH AND DRIED, INCLUDING CITRUS

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:42:49 -0500 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:

Prescriptions are taken to the pharmacies not doctors offices.
How do doctors get coopted by drug companies, unnecessarily
overprescribing pharmaceuticals for patients that do not need the
medications?...  How do doctors benefit by prescribing

Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2004 Jun;254(3):143-147.  Related Articles,
Links  
Increased oxidative stress and altered activities of erythrocyte free radical
scavenging enzymes in autism.

Hello all,
I am trying to figure out if what I have is viral or bacterial.  I
have been ill for 7 days.  Started out with a fever then turned into a
general bad sore throat.  after 4 days, the fever went away and the