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Recent edit to Lower Spinal Stenosis

Hi James,

I received your message about the edits to the page about LSS and was confused about what the problem with the entry was. References were made to a third-party clinical journal and the entry made no claims or assertions. If you could let me know how it needs to be specifically modified, or if it needs to go in another section, I would appreciate it. I've been doing research on LSS and noticed that this treatment was missing from the article.

Here was the entry for reference:

Interventional Therapy

For patients "who fail conservative therapies and are not surgical candidates due to co-morbid conditions," recent developments in technology, most notably the Mild procedure, have lead to minimally invasive options that do not involve large incisions, the destruction of muscle tissue or prolonged recuperation.

The conclusion of this study revealed that the Mild procedure "appears to be a safe and likely effective option of neurogenic claudication in patients who have failed consecutive therapy and have ligamentum flavum hypertrophy as the primary distinguishing component of stenosis."

Thank you for your feedback!

Re: References

Hello, Doc James. You have new messages at Singularity42's talk page.
Message added Singularity42 (talk) 21:53, 27 May 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Thanks Again, Doc

Kwami generously agreed (again) to stop the hyphenation stuff after your most recent intervention. I left him a very nice note of appreciation.

Also, per your request, I am doing the following right now:

Narrowing my current watch list to reflect (almost) exclusively "cancer pages";

Searching for "-cell carcinoma", "-cell sarcoma", "-cell lymphoma", and adding all those pages to my list so as to be able to monitor them easier and - hopefully - "take over for you". If you can think of anything else I can do that would help, let me know.

Again, I'm sorry to bother you so much - trust me, I've hated all this as badly as you have!

Very warmest thanks for your concern and assistance: Cliff L. Knickerbocker, MS (talk) 23:16, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Image

You do not have consensus for inclusion. Badger Drink (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

E-mail

Hey Doc:

Per your suggestion I tried ONCE AGAIN to turn on my e-mail here. I've tried 20 times since I've been here and it won't let me for some reason. Will keep trying, but in case I can't, its uploadvirus@yahoo.com or verityandassociates@yahoo.com or evidentlegalservices@gmail.com. Take your pick and lemme know which one you like. LOL!

I also will watch Talk Medicine.

Regards: Cliff L. Knickerbocker, MS (talk) 12:48, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Focal infection theory

Sorry been busy and didn't get back to you as soon as I would have liked. You noted you don't do biographies but I noticed you didn't talk about the Focal infection theory article either. In particular I want to add the following to that article:

In a 1925 Journal of the American Medical Association article Price acknowledged that more than a simple association of dental infection and degenerative disease in the same patent or the results of test animals was needed to demonstrate a relationship an and summarized new data developed in his research regarding focal infection to systemic disease using structural changes and chances body serums serologic while referring back to his 1923 work.(Price, Weston A. (1925) "Dental Infections and related Degenerative Diseases" J Am Med Assoc 1925;84(4):254-261.)((1925) The American dental surgeon: Volume 46; American Academy of Restorative Dentistry Page 18)(Crowe, Henry Warren; Herbert George Franking (1927) Bacteriology & surgery of chronic arthritis and rheumatism "Etiology Continued : Dental Infections And Degenerative Diseases - A Review And Commentary" Oxford university press pg 23-32)

(...)

In 1939 in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration Weston Price stated "(i)n my search for the cause of degeneration of the human face and the dental organs I have been unable to find an approach to the problem through the study of affected individuals and diseased tissues. In my two volume work on "Dental Infections," Volume I, entitled "Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic," and Volume II, entitled "Dental Infections and the Degenerative Diseases," I reviewed at length the researches that I had conducted to throw light on this problem. The evidence seemed to indicate clearly that the forces that were at work were not to be found in the diseased tissues, but that the undesirable conditions were the result of the absence of something, rather than of the presence of something." and later in that same volume also stated "(i)t is very important that in the consideration of the dental caries problem it shall be kept in mind continually, that it is only one of a large group of symptoms of modern physical degeneration and when teeth are decaying other things are going wrong in the body. Fluorine treatment, like dental extractions, cannot be a panacea for dental caries."

Please note all these come from peer reviewed sources (Nutrition and Physical Degeneration was published by Paul B. Hoeber, Inc; Medical Book Department of Harper & Brothers.) but I was wondering if you knew of other sources that might help on the history of Focal infection theory.--BruceGrubb (talk) 14:53, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Google scholar has a fair bit of stuff here http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Focal+infection+theory%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 as dose google books http://www.google.ca/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=%22Focal+infection+theory%22&btnG=Search+Books Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:00, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Hopefully this will help clear up the history section of the article which to quite honestly is a mess because the few sources we currently contradict each other regarding when and to what degree focal infection theory fell out of favor.--BruceGrubb (talk) 18:44, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Brain loss found in the Ho 2011 study of neuroleptica treatment

Hi James, Why did you revert my change of

"In Feb. 2011, a loss of brain tissue, possibly comparable in size to that of the monkey studies below, but slower, was reported in schizophrenics treated with antipsychotics."

to

"In Feb. 2011, a minor loss of brain tissue was reported in schizophrenics treated with antipsychotics."

I can't see that the brain tissue loss is minor. It is comparable to what was found in the monkey studies with HAL/OLZ in 2005. (If you take doses and the fact that things happens faster in monkeys in accounts.)

The notion of "minor loss of brain tissue" seems grossly misleading here. Can you please propose a better variant if you do not like my suggestion?

Kind regards, nopedia Nopedia (talk) 16:31, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

The ref says "The use of antipsychotic drugs to treat schizophrenia is associated with the loss of a small but measurable amount of brain tissue, a new study finds." Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:55, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

I am not able to find the text above. Where is it? I am aware that the conclusion in the abstract is very "mild". However there is nothing in the article that says that not all the brain tissue loss may come from antipsychotics. You may think the statistical correction for illness severity can lead to this conclusion. However it can not since the antipsychotics is given exactly for treating the illness. So illness severity and dosage are not independent variables. All the statistical correction can lead to is to say: "Whatever we try this amount of loss must come from antipsychotics. The rest of the loss might also come from treatment but we are not absolutely totally sure of this now. And we will not be allowed to publish this article if we even slightly imply so." -- You may not know that the researchers said they waited 20 years before trying to publish (not to disturb patients) this and then they had to wait nearly 3 years more because it is so controversial. In my opinion it is unethical not to tell this now. So I suggest that you revert the reverting of my change. Or tell me why do not agree, of course. Nopedia (talk) 18:16, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Using this exact phrase I found Schizophrenia Drugs May Spur Subtle Brain Tissue Loss; is this the correct article?--BruceGrubb (talk) 18:50, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

This newspaper article is about the same research article, but it does not as far as I can see describe the brain tissue loss accurately. Nopedia (talk) 18:54, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Needle Exchange and Kerstin Kall's Criticisms

Doc James, I have not understood that Pubmed is mandatory for sourcing of drug intervention text, however I am appreciable of any discussion about anything in my text that you think inaccurately reflects the sources cited. Please see my comments on the Kall and JGDPP issue here. I hope these are helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minphie (talk • contribs) 09:42, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

The problem is that the sources you have cited are not reliable. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:28, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

NBCA

Hello, I'm very confused as to why pulmonary embolism and deep vien thrombosis cannot have links to the National Blood Clot Alliance. This is not spam, I just figured it should be linked. The National Blood Clot Alliance is a nonprofit organization that provides further information on the two conditions as well as patient stories. Can you please tell me why this is not okay? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eliz.portillo (talk • contribs) 15:25, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Gout revert

Hi, the change I made here that you reverted was worded to reflect exactly what the cited article says, "...Western diets (high intakes of meat, seafood, fructose-sweetened beverages and beer) are linked..." and a mention of "high alcohol consumption" further down. Sorry if I didn't make that more clear. As a sometimes gout sufferer I don't necessarily agree with that list, but that's what the citation says. Best, CliffC (talk) 17:38, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:47, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

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Glioma: deletion of valuable information

Please take care when deleting material from articles. From Glioma you deleted: "Most glioblastomas are infected with cytomegalovirus" perhaps because it cited The Economist. But the information was correct and significant: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12067971 Thank you, pgr94 (talk) 21:58, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Borders of the lung merger

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Circumcision edits

I'm sorry for the reverts, because your changes are good. I should have worked through them all yesterday.Earthsales5 (talk) 20:03, 3 June 2011 (UTC)