User talk:Doc James/Archive 79

Class page

Our professor has not created a class page. We were instructed to create Wikipedia accounts and edit/create our respective pages.LithiumCHM333 (talk) 03:04, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:LithiumCHM333. How many in your class? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:40, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Around 55 students, with about 5 per group. The topics covered are:

LithiumCHM333 (talk) 13:13, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

note, i posted here: Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard/Incidents#New_course_with_55_students.2C_not_integrated_to_Project_Education Jytdog (talk) 13:20, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I started looking through histories of pages related to the list above and, with some detective work, did manage to find the class, CHM333 at the University of Toronto Mississauga. I'm going to reach out to the instructor via email and will go over WikiEdu, support, class pages, and all the usual information. But I think what would help a lot is a phone call to go over MEDRS/MEDMOS and/or some of the specific issues students are running into. Pinging Ian (Wiki Ed), but also @Doc James if this is one WikiMed would be into supporting. PS: I stopped going through articles when I figured out which class it was, but these are also student articles: Chromium(III) picolinate, User:CHM333five/sandbox, and Gold Nanoparticles (Chemotherapy). --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Ryan (Wiki Ed): @Ian (Wiki Ed): Any news on the CHM333 class and their plans for these articles? One of them was sent to AfD, which I userfied as it seems best not to handle these contributions piecemeal, but the ones I've come across really aren't suitable for mainspace as written. Opabinia regalis (talk) 05:52, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't heard anything yet, but it hasn't really been that long. Thanks for userfying that page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:15, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Opabinia regalis: I haven't heard back either, sorry to say. I will be sure to update here when/if I do (and if Doc continues not to mind using this space :) ). --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:30, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More than welcome to continue this here. They are beginning to drop their assignments into Wikipedia per Zinc in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Not really excited about "marking" these papers. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:30, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks guys. I feel bad for these kids; they're doing a lot of work on topics that are not all really going to be viable standalone articles. Opabinia regalis (talk) 04:40, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll just comment one more time before this thread is archived: Never received a response from the prof, sorry to say. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:23, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Osteoarthritis

Hello, I have written in the Osteoarthritis article something to the effect that there are people who take the view that Osteoarthritis is caused by inflammation, and I have linked to a study by stanford.edu. Currently, the article states "Osteoarthritis is caused by mechanical stress on the joint, and (unlike rheumatoid arthritis), is not caused by inflammation..". However, I have just realized that the source given for this, reference 4, does not seem to support the statement, but the opposite, that osteoarthritis is not a "wear and tear" disease, but driven by inflammation. As I understand it, you seem to have reverted the article back to a state where no reference is made to osteoarthritis possibly being inflammation driven, and I was hoping somewhere on a talk page to to see why you did so, but if it is there I have not found it. Needless to say, I think the article has to change, so I would be grateful to hear from you. Carystus (talk) 21:42, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

i opened a discussion at the article talk page. Jytdog (talk) 22:55, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the message. Agree we had poorly summarized the current review article. It more or less agrees with that other paper therefore I have adjusted. Many thanks User:Carystus for picking this up. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:48, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Student editing

Can you run this through your copyvio detection thingie? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:46, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Medical cannabis

But i didn't say it mentions medical marijuana usage i just said those are the US statistics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hunenmensch (talk • contribs) 13:25, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hunenmensch But it is likely more appropriate in a difficult article if it is not about medical cannabis no? Doc James (talk · contribs · email)

come on and stir it up, little darling stir it up — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hunenmensch (talk • contribs) 13:57, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry not sure what you mean User:Hunenmensch Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:03, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But see we are not talking about medical cannabis we are talking about recreational cannabis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hunenmensch (talk • contribs) 14:13, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay true. I will see if I can find a better ref. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:17, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Collagen for RA treatment?

Good day Doc, I do agree with you that this kind of treatment are lack of evident but this kind of statement just pop up everywhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_II_collagen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Youeverknow (talk • contribs) 13:42, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:Youeverknow I removed it there to. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:03, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

edit query

Regarding article on Parkinson's Disease. The first paragraph was lengthy so i added break that syntax is html syntax for leaving an empty line. So that it looks clean; if you have better idea then use it; but i presume their are not rules for editing to make it neat. Dr.Ash (talk) 16:47, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Addressed on my talk. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:48, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FYI - RFCU

RFC User (RFC/U) was deprecated last year. [1] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 19:17, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah thanks. Yes now that you mention it I may have even supported its deprecation. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:32, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relation to the topic

I noticed someone had edited this page's content. I took it upon myself to restore the page to its original state. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thewatchfulobserver (talk • contribs) 23:09, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that however the previous content was too promotional and was thus removed. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:21, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

COI tag

You placed a COI tag on Joe Kovacs but left no comment. I don't see anything in the article the looks like COI. What motivates you to think so? You can reply on my talk page or better yet, take it to the article. Trackinfo (talk) 00:16, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Edits by this user [2] As they were not that concerning will remove. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:22, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pseudohypertension

What is your opinion if we merge (Pseudohypertension in the elderly with Osler's sign (pseudohypertension)? --Mahmoudalrawi (talk) 00:16, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Mahmoudalrawi definitely merge as they are the same. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:24, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

so, who will merge the 2 articles, you or me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahmoudalrawi (talk • contribs) 01:32, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We could also move all the content to Pseudohypertension Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:39, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:39, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Epistop

Hello James,

I know that you are very busy and regret adding anything to your plate. But I have an inquiry about the EU funded study on epilepsy called "Epistop" on my talk page. If you could make a comment, I would be grateful. Thanks for all you do. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 04:41, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Let me look. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:00, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Heading

Thanks for your comment. Please help me edit the page or give me some specific areas that need cleaning up.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sylvia Matovu (talk • contribs) 13:44, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It appears you have help :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:47, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reference errors on 7 May

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Study 329

Hi. I did not redo the ref ordering, so I am not sure what exactly you reverted. For example, why you reinstereted a broken blockquote tag? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:53, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Am about to post on the talk page. Not sure why you are replacing tags with unneeded templates. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:54, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Still this was only one of the 6(?) edits I did and it had a clear edit summary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:56, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On your question: You can check Template:Paragraph_break#Purpose. In fact after a huge cleanup that many editors participated, no pages contains anymore p tags (sometimes new pages with p tags occur but this is also rare nowadays). -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:59, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I am looking at your edits.

You did do a few other things

1) you broke this ref "implications..<ref name="McGoey and Jackson 2009"Jackson 2012"

2) you added extra punctuation here nt."."<r

3) and you removed an unneeded </blockquote>

I have restored the last bit.

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:02, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

By the way we had a long discussion about these tags here Talk:Female_genital_mutilation/Archive_13 and Graham suggested a solution which works for all I hope Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:03, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for the broken reference. I did the edits manually. Thanks for restoring. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:04, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

With the template I can have a better control of where paragraph breaks are used. It's also a check for me that I removed the page from the list of pages. Not a big issue I guess. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:06, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If the template is made to work in all languages of Wikipedia than I am okay with its use.

Otherwise I am supportive of SV going with a solution that works in all languages as discussed here [3]

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:08, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have created the template in some other languages in the past to be honest. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:12, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Does it work in all of them including incubator? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:12, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No idea. The p tags solution has one extra problem, that we should close the tags properly. This is usually not done and many editors tend to remove the closing p tag. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:15, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As these template have the problem of not being compatible in all other languages when content is translated. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:18, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am not familiar with incubator. Thanks for the heads up. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:19, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, the template seems to be quite popular while p tags do not exist in English Wikipedia. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:20, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what you mean? We have a couple of articles that use them. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:37, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's only those two. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:41, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A quick database scan reveals no other pages. Your revert introduced problems for screen readers instead of fixing it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:35, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I mentioned here that Pain has several , and Petroleum has  without , and Enrico Fermi has . There are other examples. Johnuniq (talk) 06:56, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Another quick look found: Administrative Review Board + Bloodlands + Conjunction fallacy + Drone strikes in Pakistan + Earl of Egmont. Johnuniq (talk) 07:15, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Johnuniq thanks. Which database dump did you use? I wonder why I did not find those. Any chance that you can provide me a full list? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:21, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I replied on my talk. Johnuniq (talk) 08:40, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Magioladitis did you read the reply by User:Graham87 here. He states "I'm a screen reader user. I've received email communications about this kerfuffle from various people ... and as I've suggested to some of them in private and will now suggest in public, enclosing the references in and tags would also get around this problem, without having to use templates. The regular tags don't work so well in references, for some reason. " So it appears that these do not need to cause problems for screen reader users. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:00, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the heads up. There is an active discussion in WP:ACCESSIBILITY. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:09, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:25, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Schizophrenia

Do you have a medical opinion on the subject of cannabis and schizophrenia? XenoRasta (talk) 20:37, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sources support a link. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:15, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's not what I asked. Do you have a medical opinion on the subject of cannabis and schizophrenia? XenoRasta (talk) 04:54, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, as a doctor, have you ever come across a publication claiming one thing, while your personal or education experience knew it to be false? XenoRasta (talk) 04:56, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see a lot of people with schizophrenia who have issues with drug addiction. I typically go with the best available literature on this sort of thing though as personal experience is not very effective for determining causation. The literature is concerned enough that I recommend young people avoid THC due to this risk. Schizophrenia is a devastating disease. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:00, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Doc James: Right here individuals with that diagnosis are served in community services in the US, and yes, they do have a psychiatrist, psychologist, or physician involved both there or in the hospital/institution. The community services personnel, however, are seldom nurses or therapists (e.g., American mental health professional). In my new book,I do mention the work by Nat Raskin's group (person-centered mental health) from his many years with Dr. Carl Rogers both of whom have now passed. My colleague from Great Britain, David Towell, worked at Tavistock, which is the home of R.D. Laing who clearly worked with individuals with a schizophrenic diagnosis. Never do the literatures meet in most worlds! US newest problem is at criminal justice. JARacino (talk) 19:41, 19 May 2015 (UTC)JARacinoJARacino (talk) 19:41, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from Peaceray prior to the OHSU Wikipedia Women's Health Information Edit-a-thon

Hi, Doc James, F I am currently riding the Bolt Bus from Seattle to Portland & expect to get to the site by noon. Although I have had participated in several editathons & am the president of the board of the Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, I am coming into this event somewhat cold due to having just got back from my son's graduation yesterday from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I do have some research experience from my nearly 8 years as a part-time reference librarian at one of Hawaii Pacific University libraries & helped to support nursing students find scholarly sources for their epidemiology papers.

You may know me on-wiki for two items. You reminded me that "It is better to link terms in the text than to have see also sections." I also revamped the documentation for {{WikiProject Medicine}}; you can see my changes here.

The event organizer Katherine Hart wrote to me that "Dr. James Heilman of the WikiProject Medicine group has agreed to call in to welcome people and explain that group’s efforts." I thought you might like to know who the Wikimedian-in-residence for the afternoon would be.

Yours, Peaceray (talk) 16:40, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect thanks User:Peaceray. This is a very exciting collaboration and it is great having you involved :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:51, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Healthy Diet

You reverted my edit on the Healthy Diet wiki where I removed reference to a paper produced by the egg industry used to say that dietary cholesterol has a negligible effect on blood cholesterol, as well as a smaller edit clearing up the fact that saturated fat mainly raises LDL cholesterol with much smaller effects on HDL, since the article seems like it's claiming saturated fat has a neutral effect on heart health. Here's a meta-analysis not paid for by people who sell dietary cholesterol

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/55/6/1060.full.pdf

"Serum cholesterol concentration is clearly added by dietary cholesterol but the magnitude of expected change is modulated by baseline dietary cholesterol." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.90.146 (talk) 16:50, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That review is from 1992 which is way too old. [4] I will update with the 2015 IOM report. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:53, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Updated here [5] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:59, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean it's too old? Scientific data doesn't just expire and get thrown out after a certain time has passed. According to the president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the US dietary guidelines committee's statement about dietary cholesterol is based on a technical error in their report, misinterpreting the words of an AHA/ACC report that simply called for more research, rather than dismissing a link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdapteVCOy0

The IOM maintains that there's an incremental increase in LDL cholesterol with increasing intakes of saturated fats, trans fats, and dietary cholesterol, stating that all three should be minimized in the diet.

http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Nutrition/DRIs/New%20Material/8_Macronutrient%20Summary.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.90.146 (talk) 18:54, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That is from 2002 and we have a 2015 document. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:57, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The 2015 document you're referencing isn't the IOM, it's the DGAC. As was said, their statement was a technical flaw based on a misinterpretation. My link to the IOM is their current stance on the matter, taken from this page, http://www.iom.edu/Activities/Nutrition/SummaryDRIs/DRI-Tables.aspx last updated 3/04/2015. The statements may have been originally made and retained since 2005, but it hasn't been updated since (despite other aspects of their recommendations being updated more recently) because no serious data has since overruled it.

Put another way, by the National Academies of Science, http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10490&page=542 "there is much evidence to indicate a positive linear relationship between cholesterol intake and low density lipoprotein concentration, and therefore increased risk of coronary heart disease." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.90.146 (talk) 20:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes my apologies I meant DGAC from 2015. 2005 is a little too old. A lot has changed in the last 10 years. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:24, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The AHA/ACC state in 2013 "There is insufficient evidence to determine whether lowering dietary cholesterol reduces LDL-C." [6] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:29, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What has changed specifically? It would have to be pretty amazing to nullify the decades of preceding science, and I don't think the egg industry sponsored article referenced is enough to make that claim. This 2010 article by renowned scientists John David Spence, David Jenkins, and Jean Davignon cite "the sustained propaganda campaign of the egg producers lobby," including industry funded studies designed to cover up the effects of dietary cholesterol, as reasons for recent confusion about the subject. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989358/ Let's not let that propaganda infect wikipedia. I noticed this same issue, instead with the dairy industry, on some other wiki pages. The atherosclerosis page for example cites the Dairy Research Institute in saying that high fat dairy does not contribute to atherosclerosis risk or may decrease it. I don't want to assume foul play by you or suggest that you have an affiliation with any of these industries, but for the sake of quality and the health of people who may read these articles, you need to filter out some of the more obviously biased references and allow more sensible information to be posted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.90.146 (talk) 20:53, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My job as a Wikipedia is only to reflect the best available literature. It take no money from industry, never have.

This 2013 guideline from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology published in 2014 in Circulation however hold a great deal of weight.[7] And thus we say what we say.

The Canadian Journal of Cardiology is an okay source but 2010 is a little old. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:29, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

By the way it is fairly amazing and thus the press:

Etc. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:31, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The AHA and ACC are certainly respectable, but I disagree that the phrase "there is insufficient evidence to determine the whether lowering dietary cholesterol reduces LDL-c" means that the evidence doesn't reflect a role of dietary cholesterol in raising LDL, just that not enough research has been done on dietary cholesterol lowering in isolation, while the meta-analysis I cited looked more at the effect that increasing dietary cholesterol has on LDL. You can see that for the other dietary factors, they were able to calculate and give estimations for LDL lowering, while they simply weren't able to do so to the same degree with dietary cholesterol. Thus, they deemed their evidence insufficient. That isn't to say that there isn't evidence of dietary cholesterol's effects on serum cholesterol or that it can't significantly affect blood lipids.

I also wouldn't say the press jumped on it because it was a massive scientific breakthrough, but rather because blowing out of proportion something that people want to hear about some of their bad dietary habits generates a lot of views. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.90.146 (talk) 21:42, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not just popular press have published statements. So has Cleveland Clinic Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:45, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprised to see that, but then again, the man being quoted in that article is apparently a saturated fat denier http://time.com/3714759/nutrition-dietary-guidelines-eating-cholesterol/ and, in your article, claims that the development of heart disease is little influenced by diet, and is mainly genetic. I'm not aware of the Cleveland Clinic as an institution backing up that claim, nor any other group of expert cardiologists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.90.146 (talk) 23:13, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ref

Hi Doc James, thanks for your note. I will update with better source. Steelyskoal (talk) 00:27, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Thanks. The 2010 review article is not that bad. But if you find something better. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:31, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Doc and Steelyskoal, I was just reviewing a boatload of edits at endometriosis which (after stepping through all of them) seem to have resulted in no change except the addition of an empty parameter to a citation and some juggling around of text, so then I went to Talk:Endometriosis to see what was up and found ... nothing. It is helpful to article development if editors keep content discussions on article talk rather than on user talk pages ... I just went to two talk pages (here and Steely's) AND article talk (three stops :) to see if you all had communicated or if Steelyskoal needed any help or guidance.

As a general goal, it's good to teach new users to use article talk for content improvements and to keep us all on the same page, which is usually article talk. Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:24, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes thanks Sandy. Should have also posted on the talk page. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:43, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of preventable causes of death

Hello Doc,

I made some minor changes to < List of Preventable causes of death > in case you would (likely) like to review these. Thanks! Whalestate (talk) 04:02, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(in case you're unawares of) > Kalos kagathos < Whalestate (talk) 04:04, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Adjusted a bit. Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:00, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

vitamins discovery

Balul9 (talk) 04:59, 15 May 2015 (UTC)Hi doc,04:59, 15 May 2015 (UTC) I sent you an email. Did not get any reply so far ? kindly respond.[reply]

Thanks.

The talk page of the vitamin article is the best place to discuss this. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:57, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your statement to Arbcom

In your recent statement to Arbcom you claimed [12]:

I have looked at the textbook and it concludes "There are promising results supporting its efficacy for adult postoperative and chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting and for postoperative dental pain".

This sentence which you quoted does not appear in Miller's Anesthesia. It was taken from Practical Management of Pain. Anyone with access to Google Books can verify that. -A1candidate 10:34, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of textbooks use the exact same text between them. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:17, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tell me the page number so I can verify it myself? (I have the 8th and latest edition) -A1candidate 22:19, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:A1candidate Thanks looking again. The ebooks do not have page numbers. It is Chapter 40, 1226-1239.e5

You are correct I appear to have mis searched on ClincalKey. My apologies

Miller 8th states "Many of the clinical acupuncture studies that have been published are of poor quality and suffer from insufficient sample size, high dropout rates, inadequate follow-up, and poorly defined illnesses, enrollment criteria, and outcome measures. 164 Acupuncture studies suffer from inherent methodologic problems, including difficulties in blinding patients and acupuncturists, using placebo or sham acupuncture, and choosing between different acupuncture techniques." "When compared with placebo, acupuncture treatment has proven efficacy for relieving pain."

My concern is one textbook cannot support "most textbooks in the field" Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:31, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

After I realized my error, I tweaked my wording immediately. We all make mistakes, I accept your apology. Thanks for clearing up a possible misunderstanding. -A1candidate 22:47, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah good. Did not notice that change. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:50, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Irony

I came across this quote, and couldn't resist sharing ... "Any homoeopath who knows medicine realizes that syphilis has bestowed upon humanity a terrible heredity that would take many decades, if not indeed aeons, before its far-reaching effects (upon successive generations) could be eliminated by careful homoeopathic prescribing." -- George Vithoulkas, in British Homoeopathic Journal Volume 68, Number 4, October 1979 LeadSongDog come howl! 20:33, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks yes Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:18, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Finasteride

HI Doc,

I see you stopped by finasteride. User: Doors22 has suggested that we ask you to be our official referee. I would welcome this, as after a year of fighting, I'm beginning to feel like the English after WWI. The issues are less important at this point that exhaustion with the constant bickering.

The reference you have requested is here. It is page 98 by the numbers on the bottom of the pages, but page 6 by PDF numbering. This is the fourth of about 8 PDFs of the FDA approval summary that can be seen here. I can see where there could be some MEDDATE concerns about this, but my position is that if we are going to quote a paper stating that none of the trials adequately assessed safety, and sexual side effects are the main adverse effect associated with therapy, we should note that at least one reliable source reached a different conclusion about this issue for the four pre-approval trials. The conclusions that these side effects were adequately evaluated in these four trials should presumably still be valid. That being said, I'm not going to fight with you about this. I've had enough fighting over this article.

I'd also ask that you consider the questions I addressed to you here. which you never responded to. I believe you were on vacation at the time they were posted. Thanks. Formerly 98 ^{talk|contribs|COI Statement} 00:36, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay will take a look. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:37, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, the assistance and objective feedback is appreciated. I know you are an extremely busy editor and IMO this is a complicated issue so please let us know if you are short on resources and could recommend another reputable editor to mediate. Doors22 (talk) 00:43, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think the reference for the FDA comment can be found here. One thing I'd like to highlight is this is an issue that is being investigated on an ongoing basis so I feel it is important the article at least considers the newest sources. Doors22 (talk) 01:07, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping out here Doc! Formerly 98 ^{talk|contribs|COI Statement} 14:18, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Translation DM2

Hi, I want to congratulate you for your medicine articles! I think they very great so I've translated Diabetes mellitus type 2 to spanish and about to finish Birth control. I get the first in a revision for Good Article and it goes very well, but the ref 47 is dead and a citation is needed in " C-peptide levels normal or high in type 2 diabetes, but low in type 1 diabetes" for get it approved. I also did some little changes in the original article. I -and I think a lot of people too- appreciate your time, so I'll be waiting. Best wishes. --Hiperfelix (talk) 02:55, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:Hiperfelix for point that out. I have fixed ref 47 and adjusted the wording.

Have added a ref were that one was missing.

By the way have you seen this table [13]? If you could update it that would be great :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:51, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Traumatic brain injury

The traumatic brain injury site was deleted with 6 hours academic work on yesterday. The two comments listed are from you. Did you touch the site??!! The long term care and nursing sites were also touched (another 8 hours work), so I assume you have been lying to the government and public again. Wikipedia Lead on community services administration. JARacino (talk) 15:45, 16 May 2015 (UTC)JARacinoJARacino (talk) 15:45, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

add: http://www.crcpress.com/authors Public Administration and Disability: Community Services Administration in the US (Racino, 2014)

The site said you removed my edits by which you mean all references and text referring to Long Term Services and Supports in the Community (40 year history with the article claiming to do history), and all linkages to community services for the categorical population group. This is the reason I am on wiki as an editor, because the entire community services categorical systems in the US are missing from the "free encyclopedia".

In addition, you deleted all references to research that involves community, including that of our Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers in the US, which are not the same constituency as your article represents. Instead, you actually prefer to highlight drugs that do not work. Your idea of old references is to delete who invented electricity because it is old.

The head and brain injury area was given to the community rehabilitation sector, not to the medical sector (nursing, therapy aide, and physician) to develop services in homes and communities (yes, not yours, stolen!! now, if the review indicated that "you" actually did the job, I might let it slide) which are lacking.

I'll try the undo, but you do not have the right to delete wholesale what you do not like in the world, though, hell lies daily that way to government for public funds. Brain injury field (just look at the personnel, the design, and the administration) smells like government ripoffs to begin with - more and more funds to medical centers, and less and less for the individuals and families.

JARacino (talk) 16:19, 16 May 2015 (UTC)JARacinoJARacino (talk) 16:19, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you are referring to Nursing home care and this IP would be you 24.59.153.150 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:48, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nursing home care was deleted, and this am nursing home was on with LTSS within as one paragraph, and the financing all melded together at the bottom for 100 bed facilities or family-directed services, home health without differentiation. I did add the RRTCS, 12 national centers as a sample to the National Institute on Disability Research and Rehabilitation this am too to respond to your earlier inquiry. Do you specialize in brain injury and mental health? The Centers I am with are not medical rehabilitation, but community rehabilitation though they come from Education (who found institutional squalor) and developed alternative community options themselves. JARacino (talk)JARacinoJARacino (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 19:10, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On the references, I did add back 4 references, Janet O'Keefe on long term services to 2014 reference, and supported employment, cross-disabilty comparisons, 1994 to about 2012 one. I also have others here, including new national on cognitive rehabilitation for return to schools after injury, for example. I didn't realize that you are on medline and I am on getting on the research base so the new national centers don't repeat lightly.JARacino (talk) 19:48, 19 May 2015 (UTC)JARacinoJARacino (talk) 19:48, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Just wanted to acknowledge your writing skills and ability to translate complex medical terminology into passages most readers can understand. Thank you for giving so generously of your time. Atsme^☎️📧 00:36, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note of support. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:47, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:DrChrissy

They have made many changes to veterinary acupuncture (see page history). Below are several examples:

Removal of excessive details and summarizing the text [14]
Adding many high quality veterinary med. textbooks such as Essentials of Small Animal Anesthesia and Analgesia [15]
Adding review articles and guidelines of veterinary medical organizations such as the 2015 AAHA/AAFP Pain Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats [16]

What do you think of their contributions in this area? Do you see any evidence for extending the topic ban to alternative veterinary medicine? Thanks for reviewing their contributions. -A1candidate 14:33, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Recent (i.e. post-2011) reviews in both veterinary text books[2][17][18][19] and scientific journals[20][21][22][23][24] indicate that acupuncture can be used for therapeutic or homeostatic effects in animals, especially in the three areas of pain management, geriatric medicine and sports medicine.[citation needed] This is a blatant SYN violation. For now there is a tag. QuackGuru (talk) 00:33, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My concern is that alt med appears to be were the problems occurred. Thus they would be wise to take a break from that area. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alright fine, I still think should be allowed to edit veterinary acupuncture since their contributions there were largely unproblematic (it seems the only person who disagrees is QuackGuru), but I might be willing to support a temporary topic ban for acupuncture, broadly construed, under some circumstances. There's an ongoing discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#DrChrissy.27s_topic_ban and your input is highly welcome. -A1candidate 21:13, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes my hope is that they develop editing skills in less controversial areas before returning to acupuncture articles of any sort. More to keep them from running into any further issues. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:21, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Sorry to trouble *you* with this, but I don't know where else to complain. That voting page is utterly stupid. I get practically a blank page, and after searching about, found links to the description of the election in the upper left (like, um, how many trustees are being elected), and now I'm looking for usernames on those people to see which ones I know. Poor design. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:48, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes the main page for background details is here [17]

To vote one needs to go to here [18]

Likely it depends on what browser you are using. Are you still using IE? Formats okay on chrome. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:33, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I just now realized you are running. Best of luck.--S Philbrick (Talk) 00:47, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:Sphilbrick Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:49, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was pleasantly surprised by how many names I recognized. That said, almost, but not quite by definition, if I base my voting on my chance interactions with a subset of those voting, I'm in danger of accidentally proliferating a good ol' boys club. Is there anything comparable to the Arbcom elections guides?--S Philbrick (Talk) 00:55, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, what a mess of useless pages. (Hi, Sphilbrick!) It is ridiculous how long it took and how much I had to dig, but I finally found:

It's astounding how poorly designed that mess is and how hard it was to find that info. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 05:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I just voted, using the links DocJames provided above. I use Firefox, the process seemed very easy, and took less than five minutes in all. It could well be a browser issue. Good luck btw. -Roxy the Mainstream dog™ (resonate) 09:51, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:57, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I voted as well,good luck--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:47, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Sandy, I had seen the candidates positions, but not the questions page.--S Philbrick (Talk) 13:29, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

When visiting the voting page I was told I would have to login. I'm used to visiting other Wikipedias where WP:SUL means I never have to login elsewhere if I am logged in at enwiki. Did other people have to login? By entering your enwiki user name and password? That sounds quite dodgy to me, and is not mentioned at the "how to vote" page. Johnuniq (talk) 12:03, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have noticed in the past that when logged in here, I am also logged in to all sorts of other related sites that I never joined. I believe there is a unified login for all of them. I appear in red everywhere but here. didn't have to login to anything else when I voted. -Roxy the Mainstream dog™ (resonate) 12:08, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think if you log in on meta [19] you should have no problems. You might not have SUL yet, but should... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:33, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Charlotte's Web / Low THC cannabis

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		Thank you for cleaning up what I percieved as the most promotional and possibly the most scientifically unsound article on the site. Formerly 98 ^{talk\|contribs\|COI Statement} 01:12, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have mostly just moved stuff around. Excellent evidence was in the article. It just needed separating out to give it due weight. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:42, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That "excellent evidence" was mostly added by me, and repeatedly deleted, tagged as "original research", moved to the bottom of the article, and intermingled on an equal weight basis with statements from cannabis advocacy groups by others. So I very much appreciate that you weighed in. Formerly 98 ^{talk|contribs|COI Statement} 02:48, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As long we we are moving in the right direction :-) I have not looked at the history of the article. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:02, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Contraception subtitle

Yes, I added subtitles in english to the video and then translated to spanish. I don't know if I heared incorrectly some word, if so correct it please. Thank you for the barnstar. Regarding the table, I am not part of TWB proyect so I don't know the codes, but essentially I've translated Diabetes mellitus type 2 and birth control to spanish. -Hiperfelix (talk) 17:04, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:Hiperfelix. There is no code in those tables. They are basically excel spread sheets that are community editing. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:17, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The AFC discussion

In case notification misfired, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Reviewer_help#Improving_AFC_by_some_sort_of_topic_pre-sorting is the start of what I hope will be a fruitful discussion. Your input will be much appreciated, even if it simply reiterates the desire. The technical issue is far harder to solve, but, if we can even attempt it, is likely to benefit the project and specialist editors hugely. Fiddle Faddle 07:23, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for starting the discussion. Will weight in. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:35, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Nice to meet you!

Hi James. You appear to be a practicing Wikimedian. I've joined Wikipedia a week ago. I demanded few questions to certain contributors, such as this, alas, I got neither a reply nor an advice. Could you tell me how to build a flawless userpage like yours? I look forward to receiving your response. Thanks you! --JenniferTheEmpress0 (talk) 16:33, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Stuff around here typically gets build over time. To begin editing your user page go to User:JenniferTheEmpress0 and hit the edit button at the top of the page. With respect to editing I would recommend that you start by making small changes. Hope that helps. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:17, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you have become involved with reverting vandalism which is excellent. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:19, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) I fixed the link to Jennifer's userpage in your comment. :-) Sunrise (talk) 22:28, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:Sunrise :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:33, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers to both of you!!! Notwithstanding the long time, I'll attempt to construct a bewildering one. --JenniferTheEmpress0 (talk) 19:22, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Weeping Eczema revisited

Dr. James,

On the Dermatitis talk page on May 4, 2015, you asked "Any modern refs? Here are a few:

^[1]

1979

^[2]

1951

^[3]

1952

^[4]

1946

The kind of weeping eczema that I was trying to document is caused by a deficiency of PABA in some people, because their colon bacteria fail to produce enough. Most people produce enough and do not need to swallow PABA and therefore it cannot be called a vitamin. Anybody who drinks beer or eats brewer's yeast or other food sources of PABA avoid weeping eczema. I have not yet found a reliable source that ties all this together.

Greensburger

^ Johnson, WT (Apr 1979). "Cutaneous chulous reflux. The weeping scrotum". Arch Dermatology. 115 (4): 464–466. PMID 434872.
^ Loewenthal, LJ (Jul1951). "Sodium para-aminobenzoate therapy of eczema-dermatitis". J Invest Dermatology. 17 (1): 1–2. PMID 14850772. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Grayson, LD; Steiner, K (Dec1952). "Sodium para-aminobenzoate PABA in the treatment of dermatoses". J Invest Dermatology. 19 (6): 463–466. PMID 13023019. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
^ Wigley, J.E.M. (1946). "Diagnosis and treatment of eczema". Postgrad Medical Journal: 103–112.

All these refs are still really old. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:26, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Heel pad syndrome

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Heel pad syndrome. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Fat pad. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Fat pad – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Rhumidian (talk) 10:41, 28 May 2015 (UTC) Hello Doc James,[reply]

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Heel pad syndrome for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, [[{{{article}}}]].

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Rhumidian (talk) 10:40, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Have reponded both there and on the talk page. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:45, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck!

Just left a vote here. You entirely merit that. Break a leg! -- ^♕JenniTheEmpress 13:30, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I voted for you exclusively. Good luck indeed. -WikiTryHardDieHard (talk) 03:16, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks appreciate it :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:29, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tylenol

I understand that you moved Tylenol to Tylenol (brand) because most readers who type "Tylenol" into a search box are probably looking for information about paracetamol. I think that was a good idea. Unfortunately, in solving this problem, a new one has been created. Currently, a majority of the incoming wikilinks to Tylenol are referring to the brand, but they are being redirected to paracetamol. So there are several hundred of these wikilinks that need to be retargeted ([[Tylenol]] --> [[Tylenol (brand)|Tylenol]]). Since you were the one to make the move, I would kindly suggest that the responsibility for making these fixes lies with you. I'm willing to help out if it has to be done manually, but maybe there is some automated or semi-automated way of doing it instead. Any suggestions? Deli nk (talk) 19:32, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:Deli nk good point. Likely some should go to paracetamol and others should go to Tylenol (brand). I will look at fixing it. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:29, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have fixed a few dozen of them and maybe I'll do some more later today. Deli nk (talk) 11:53, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, my night has been busy and I have not been able to get to it yet. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:08, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I hope it didn't come across as if I was annoyed or trying to rush you or anything - just trying to help out. :) Deli nk (talk) 12:13, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Not a problem. You raised an issue I had not thought about. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:15, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Deli nk I assume you are working off of this list here [20]? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:03, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Going through them. About half should be redirected to the brand the other half to paracetamol. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:16, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was using Special:WhatLinksHere/Tylenol. Deli nk (talk) 14:09, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings from Campora San Giovanni. Go James!

Dear Doctor,

I'm writing to say hello and know how you are. In addition to this because I'm an acquaintance of yours for years and I am your supporter. It's nice to know that people like you want to give the small but essential contribution to improving society and above all the information and the dissemination of ideas and the renewal of the world. If you will be on the board, and I pray the Lord so that you sit among those people, I beg you to remember me as well, I have a lot to give but I really want to put my work in the service of human and intellectual world, I barely a bachelor's Accountant, I have ADHD that I'll bring up the rest of my days, but I do not Shot down for this. As inhabitant of a small country village in Southern Italy are a believer and very hopeful of the future. I hope that I can sometimes go to Canada where my relatives live and maybe visit you. In conclusion I hope that you are a champion of these ideas, and good doctor know even listen to your neighbor and partner. a close and fraternal greetings. Go James! Go!--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 11:31, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Carissimo Dottore,

ti scrivo per salutarti e sapere come stai. Oltre a questo perchè sono un tuo conoscente da anni e io sono un tuo supporter. È bello sapere che gente come te vuole dare il piccolo ma essenziale contributo per migliorare la società e soprattutto l'informazione e la divulgazione delle idee e del rinnovamento del mondo. Qualora sarai nel direttivo, e io pregherò il Signore affinchè tu segga tra quelle persone, ti prego di ricordarti anche di me, non ho molto da dare ma ho tanta voglia di mettere la mia opera umana e intellettuale al servizio del mondo, ho a stento un diploma di ragionere, ho l'ADHD che mi porterò fino al resto dei miei giorni, ma non mi abbatto per questo. Essendo abitante di un piccolo borgo di campagna del Sud Italia sono credente e molto speranzoso del futuro. Spero che qualche volta potrò visitare il Canada dove risiedono miei parenti e magari di farti visita. Concludendo mi auguro che tu sia un paladino di queste idee, e da buon medico sappi anche ascoltare il tuo prossimo ed interlocutore. un caro e fraterno saluto. --Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 11:35, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino many thanks for your kind words :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:07, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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-_-

What exactly about the cited paper didn't support the claim? It's not the only trial with similar results either.

I don't understand what constitutes a high enough standard of evidence to you. If single trials are insufficient, the entire section on treatments for depersonalization disorder might as well be deleted. In fact, I'll go do it myself now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.24.56.87 (talk) 15:20, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In this edit [21] you added this small primary study [22]

There was no control group by the looks of it. Therefore it does not support efficacy.

Bigger issues is we should be using secondary sources for medical claims per WP:MEDRS

Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:31, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, there wasn't. It is explained within the paper that the significantly delayed onset of clinically relevant effects makes a placebo effect unlikely. There is, of course, a more recent controlled trial. As an under-researched and under-acknowledged condition, DPD lacks a strong base of secondary sources and authoritative guidelines. The one psychiatric textbook written on the subject predates the rTMS trials. Anyway, this is clearly not an area you have any familiarity with so there's no point in us having this discussion. 82.24.56.87 (talk) 16:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Adventure nominated for deletion

Hi, I'm notifying you of a discussion where I mentioned you because you have been involved with The Wikipedia Adventure. You can comment here: Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure_(2nd_nomination). Cheers, Jake Ocaasi^{t | c} 15:39, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and have commented. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:39, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

heard about this?

[23] [24] ...CNN)—Researchers meeting in Chicago are hailing what they believe may be a potent new weapon in the fight against cancer: the body's own immune system [25] --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:54, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That was 2014s top research topic of the year. Using the immune system to fight cancer is ongoing and our articles talk about it. Interesting stuff. This is why people with AIDS get covered in cancer / kaposi sarcomas. You make and your body kills cancers all the time. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:41, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Teens, Health, and Technology: A US Survey

This may interest you, if you have not already seen it. In this case "National"=the US.

"Teens, Health, and Technology: A National Survey" (PDF). Center on Media and Human Development, School of Communication, Northwestern University. 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

Peaceray (talk) 20:27, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia appears to be one of the top websites at 22% but the least trusted. Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:38, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

you might be interested/parental age effect editor (current)

[26]... withdrawn

[27]...complaint to admins...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:48, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. What was the reason for removing the 2008 Cochrane review? [28] Was that just an oversight? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:00, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I felt the book was better,(in hindsight id probably do it different, though it is still MEDRS compliant)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:02, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay Cochrane reviews are generally consider some of the best avaliable sources. Typically better than textbooks. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:03, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I concur (wont change them again)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:04, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And if you are interested in adding summaries of them would appreciate the help :-) This lists recent ones [29] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:06, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:08, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, what's going on?

Hi Doc

I see you've reverted two separate edits I made. Fair enough (but mean spirited) on the Opioid one, but what was wrong with the Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor edit? I can't help but feel that you're picking on me. --Brian Fenton (talk) 14:53, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is a 1999 primary source [30]. I updated it with a review article.

This is a 2005 primary source [31] which does not support "ibogaine in addiction treatment" You need to use high quality secondary sources per WP:MEDRS as stated on your talk page. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:59, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, 1 regarding Opioid, I've no problem with the more changing of the reference to a more recent article, but I think your rewording was too strong. Why "data to support its use in substance dependence is poor"?

2 regarding Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, what is the problem with the Dao-Yao He, et al (Journal of Neuroscience) article? And was it really necessary to remove my entire edit? --Brian Fenton (talk) 15:25, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

yes that was a bad edit. you gave WEIGHT to the conclusions of a 10 year old PRIMARY souce describing in vitro and rodent work. There are literally 4305 papers on GDNF. Shall we include snippets from every one of them, like you did there? If not, what is so important about this one? Jytdog (talk) 15:43, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I never said it supported "ibogaine in addiction treatment". I said it might explain the mechanism. As to whether we should include snippets from all 4305 papers, that would be great. I simply added this mention as I had recently learned about ibogaine's impressive results treating addicts, clearly something which isn't ready for prime time medicine yet, as evidenced by your edits.

And what are you two, a tag team? --Brian Fenton (talk) 16:03, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

nope, we are members of WP:MED which aims to improve and maintain the quality of WP articles about health. you didn't answer the question about "why this source when there are 4305 others." Jytdog (talk) 16:20, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Edits

Thank you for helping me out, I'm kind of new and just trying to help out where I can. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chenby.wp (talk • contribs) 17:08, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thanks. Some of your wording however does not make sense. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:10, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sven70

We go waaaay back. He is no fan of mine, and vice versa. Behold his latest greeting to me, a reward for tagging more of his socks and removing his attacks.[32] Since he used the IP again, would you mind blocking him? Cheers :> Doc talk 21:45, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Doc9871 he is blocked until the 6th. Will block him longer if needed. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:10, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll be watching for him. Doc talk 22:13, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

cryoablation

My aunt and uncle died from cancer and I strongly believe that the public should be more knowledgeable about cryoablation. The advantage of cryoablation is that it reduces the chances of being hospitalized and thus being weakened by chemotherapy treatments. I am not from IceCure whatsoever, but this company is FDA approved for such treatments and although this treatment is applicable only in certain cases, women should know about this option. Many times doctors prefer to take the hardest treatment because they want to save themselves, but, in fact, these treatments are highly reliable and women get receive them in many places in America and abroad. These treatments are even covered by several health insurances already. Obviously, we as a society should advance with technology and at least know about the options we have and push our doctors to keep up with innovation and at least think of other possibilities in treating us.

You still much use, high quality recent review articles or other high quality secondary sources. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:10, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Consider these two:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1089251613000942 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00404-014-3553-5

This is a primary source [33] not a secondary source. Will look at the other one. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:30, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added the review to this section Breast_cancer#Research Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:37, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I appreciate the efforts you make. But still I think there is more into it and you describe with too many reservations. Let me just cite maybe the most reliable review comparing all the methods existed for Ablation of Breast Cancer:

"Cryoablation is emerging as the most practical treatment of early breast cancer and has attracted the most interest. Feasibility studies have shown that like RFA, cryoablation can destroy small breast tumors if the same careful selection of cases as is used for RFA studies is applied—namely, only small, well-demarcated invasive tumors located a safe distance from the skin, chest wall, and nipple. A major advantage of cryoablation over RFA is that it can be performed (and customized) under the precise monitoring of real-time ultrasound."

See this here: http://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.13.11600

And here are all the sources they cite there:

35. Roubidoux MA, Sabel MS, Bailey JE, et al. Small (< 2.0-cm) breast cancers: mammographic and US findings at US-guided cryoablation–initial experience. Radiology 2004; 233:857–867 [CrossRef] [Medline] 36. Pfleiderer SO, Marx C, Camara O, Gajda M, Kaiser WA. Ultrasound-guided percutaneous cryotherapy of small (< or = 15 mm) breast cancers. Invest Radiol 2005; 40:472–477 [CrossRef] [Medline] 37. Littrup PJ, Jallad B, Chandiwala-Mody P, et al. Cryotherapy for breast cancer: a feasibility study without excision. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009; 20:1329–1341 [CrossRef] [Medline] 38. Manenti G, Perretta T, Gaspari E, et al. Percutaneous local ablation of unifocal subclinical breast cancer: clinical experience and preliminary results of cryotherapy. Eur Radiol 2011; 21:2344–2353 [CrossRef] [Medline] 39. Sabel MS, Kaufman CS, Whitworth P, et al. Cryoablation of early-stage breast cancer: work-in-progress report of a multi-institutional trial. Ann Surg Oncol 2004; 11:542–549 [CrossRef] [Medline] 40. Sabel MS, Arora A, Su G, et al. Adoptive immunotherapy of breast cancer with lymph node cells primed by cryoablation of the primary tumor. Cryobiology 2006; 53:360–366 [CrossRef] [Medline] 41. Sabel MS, Su G, Griffith KA, et al. Rate of freeze alters the immunologic response after cryoablation of breast cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 2010; 17:1187–1193 [CrossRef] [Medline] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.228.203.72 (talk) 22:46, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think the key word here is emerging. Yes there are early studies. It is not well studied yet. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:54, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What's up Doc

Maybe you can have a look at this. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 22:20, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Will look. Not sure why they removed the Cochrane review? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:27, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Low level laser therapy hair loss treatment

Coould the medical use of Low level laser therapy in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_level_laser_therapy be removed and instead refer readers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_hair_loss#Laser_therapy?

Reason I see the text is duplicated and having one central source would prevent the duplicate work of maintaining the 2 sections.

Thank you,Jcardazzi (talk) 23:22, 4 June 2015 (UTC)jcardazzi[reply]

One can "template" one into the other. But in two spots is not too bad. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:14, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Controversy surrounding psychiatry

Thank you for starting this article. I added the entry to Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride 2015/Results, which is tracking new and improved articles (and other content) related to LGBT culture and history. The Wiki Loves Pride campaign runs through the end of June, so if you happen to create or improve any other LGBT-related articles, feel free to add them to this list as well. Again, much appreciated, and thank you for all the work you do. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:00, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly. LGBT and psychiatry have an interesting history to say the least. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:02, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Anorexia nervosa reference

Hi Doc James

Thanks for the message on my talk page. I'm afraid the reference citing 1874 is wrong - Sir William Gull's paper Anorexia Nervosa (Apepsia Hysterica, Anorexia Hysterica) was delivered to the Clinical Society of London on 24 October 1873. I have a copy of the dated original in my collection of Gull papers.

Please also see the following links: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1550-8528.1997.tb00677.x/abstract (transcript Gull's paper showing 1873 date) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03339960

I believe we should revert your edit and replace the reference with these links, but I am not sure how to resolve the discrepancy between the references . Happy to discuss further.

Kind Regards, Allen

User:Achilver Yup you are correct that other paper contains an error. Thanks for this. Have changed the ref and the date :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:57, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A beer for you!

Congratulations on winning the election! I'm really happy that you got voted in. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 01:07, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:The ed17. I hope I can improve relations between the community and WMF. Plan to do this mainly by increasing the say the community has in WMF decisions plus advocating for tech support for community lead initiatives. We will see how this goes :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:11, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, this is great news. Sarah (SV) ^(talk) 01:33, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats James, and good luck in your new role. Very happy to have voted for you. NW (Talk) 02:27, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats ..you won because your the best--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:34, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
All of the above cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:06, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations indeed. You'll do a splendid job. JFW | T@lk 22:32, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Been so busy with other Wikipedia-related projects these past few months I didn't see you reverted my edit to Malaria until ... Well, now! As "fever" and not "high fever" was included in the referenced source, you were obviously right in removing my addition, but I think we could agree that it might be stretching it a tiny bit. If I've been messing up my sleep schedule, causing my immune system to weaken, and got a fever then that would properly strike me as the cause, whereas a high fever would, to a certain degree, compel people to think (or fear) otherwise. Basically what I'm saying is I think the article reads better with "high fever" instead of simply "fever" with respect to Wikipedia policies. Best, Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 20:27, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Jonas Vinther Many people with malaria just have a fever rather than a high fever. We do not want people saying "this is not malaria as my temperature is only 38.5 C rather than greater than 40" Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:30, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Oops, they've let the fox in! Congratulations, and please kick anyone who tries to baffle the Board with charts and statistics showing that Visual Editor and Flow are vital for the encyclopedia's future. Johnuniq (talk) 01:44, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hear, hear. Glad you're willing. -- Scray (talk) 02:05, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, and all good luck. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 11:41, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Will be writing details of some of the projects I plan to undertake soon. And appreciate people's feedback on them. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:37, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well deserved. I've been searching for a reliable attribution and coming up blank, but "If you want something done, give it to a busy man". Now then, hustle up, you don't have forever!LeadSongDog come howl! 17:25, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm really pleased to see you in. Echoing the above, congrats. Greg Kaye 15:48, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Late to the party, but glad to see you getting the new challenge. Do good things. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 16:14, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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