REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
              unmoderated group sci.med.surgery.plastic

This is a formal request for discussion (RFD) for the creation
of an unmoderated newsgroup related to plastic and reconstructive
surgery as follows.  The group proponent is Steve Darnaud
<hvp…@hofstra.edu>, and the group mentor is Chris Stone
<cbst…@phoenix.princeton.edu>.  Please direct questions to the proponent.

This is not a call for votes.  Please do not vote now.  All followup
discussion should be conduct in news.groups.

RATIONALE: sci.med.surgery.plastic

Although there are mailing lists and other sci.med newsgroups
which address different aspects of the medical profession, there
is no usenet-based newsgroup to discuss plastic surgery.

A proposal for sci.med.plastic-surg recently failed.  It is hoped that
the name sci.med.surgery.plastic, with its improved hierarchical
structure, will inspire more support.

CHARTER: sci.med.surgery.plastic

Sci.med.surgery.plastic is intended to be an unmoderated arena
for discussions relevant to plastic and reconstructive surgery.

This group is created to provide a forum for information, ideas,
issues and experiences regarding plastic and reconstructive
surgery.  Sci.med.surgery.plastic is designed for professionals
as well as laypeople, and is anticipated to have a broad
interest.

Topics for discussion include, but are not limited to:

           * Argon, carbon-dioxide and copper vapor lasers.
           * Hemangiomas, vascular malformations and other
             birthmarks.
           * Procedures, innovations and results in endoscopic,
             microvascular and other reconstructive surgeries.
           * Scars, skin-grafts, breast implants, etc.
           * Dermabrasion and cryosurgery.
           * Cleft lip and palate, craniofacial synostosis and
             microsomia.
           * Other multi-disciplinary sectors – Dermatology,
             Hematology and Ophthalmology.

END CHARTER.

DISTRIBUTION:

This RFD is being posted to news.announce.newgroups,
news.groups, sci.med, sci.med.nursing, sci.med.occupational,
misc.health.aids, misc.kids.health, misc.kids.pregnancy,
bionet.announce, and bionet.general.

I AM BEING PLACED ON THE ABOVE, TO COMPLEMENT THE AZT AND 3TC
THAT I AM CURRENTLY ON. ANYONE IN THE 30 T CELL COUNT WHO HAS
FOUND THIS COMBO TO WORK. ???
–
  GERALD HENDRIX  ABWV…@prodigy.com

I am collecting health-related FAQs for my research in consumer health
information on the internet. If you have a FAQ regarding an issue discussed in
this forum, would you be so kind as to forward a copy to me? My address is
c264…@mizzou1.missouri.edu. Thank you for your generosity!
Janet

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1996  Week in Review Section 4   p2.

On the AIDS Front Line

        It was an upbeat week for AIDS therapy, the first in a while.
        There was good news announced at the Third Conference on
Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, in Washington, about a new
class of drugs known as protease inhibitors. In combination with standard
AIDS drugs in studies lasting a few months, they suppressed the amount of
H.I.V. in the body to levels below detection with current techniques. The
drugs are no cure. But if their beneficial effect lasts, the AIDS virus
can be managed as a chronic disease. The big unknowns are how often the
virus will become resistant to these drugs and whether they will turn out
to have hidden dangers after longer use.
        A new test that measures the amount of H.I.V. in the blood was
reported to be a better way to predict the progression from infection to
AIDS and survival. The test offers the possibility that the stage of
H.I.V.-infection can be identified–as much as certain cancers are–and
an appropriate therapy prescribed.
        And after a decade-long wait, a chimpanzee that had been injected
with thte AIDS virus contracted the disease. It is the first time that
man’s closest relative has developed AIDS. The finding may shed new light
on trials of experimental vaccines. Although about 100 other similarly
injected chimps have not developed AIDS, scientists said that the
transmission of AIDS to a primate was important evidence to counter
critics who say that H.I.V. does not causes[sic] AIDS.
        The five-day meeting ended on a note of excitement and caution.
So many participants had ridden the roller-coaster course of AIDS
research, and they hoped they were not in for another plunge.
                                LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

         James M. Scutero, original proponent of misc.health.aids
         misc.health.aids homepage: http://www.panix.com/~jscutero
   MISC.HEALTH.AIDS * HIV/AIDS TALK ONLY * NO COMMERCIALS * NO MODERATORS

I have converted to HTML the article

       "Relationship between HIV and AIDS"

that was recently distributed on the internet by the National
Institutes of Health. I also added a glossary and some comments. There
are still some gaps in the glossary, so I would appreciate it if
people in the know could read over it. Also, feel free to create links
from your HIV/AIDS pages.

The URL:

   http://emile.math.ucsb.edu/~boldt/aids/etiology.html

Thanks,
  Axel

  I am very intrigued by the possibility of buying this book.  I know that
several copies exist among the members of this newsgroup.

  Would there ever be a chance for the purchase of this older book, that
names some of the guilty parties in the AIDS conspiracy, from any of the
members here?

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I am doing a research project on the spread of Aids in Muslim countries.  
Does anyone have any information on this topic?  I have been researching
traditional library archives and using the Internet without luck.  
Thanks for your help!

–Gita

comp…@muse.calarts.edu

THE NEW YORK TIMES      WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1996       A14

Infected with Human Virus, A Chimpanzee Develops AIDS
by Lawrence K. Altman

        WASHINGTON, Jan. 30–A chimpanzee has developed AIDS more than a
decade after it was injected with H.I.V.-1, the main AIDS virus,
scientists reported at a scientific meeting here today.
        Transfusion of blood from the chimpanzee with AIDS to a heathy
chimpanzee apparently produced AIDS in the second animal within a matter
of months, suggesting that the virus mutated to become more virulent
within the first chimpanzee. The count of a special type of white cell in
the blood critical for immune function, CD4, fell to very low levels in
both chimpanzees. The CD4 count is a standard measurement of the
progression of the AIDS virus.
        H.I.V.-1 has been injected into more than 100 chimpanzees in
research centers throughout the world to learn more about the disease
since the virus was discovered in the early 1980′s. But the two
chimpanzees are the first animals to develop AIDS, Dr. Francis J.
Novembre of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory
University in Atlanta told the more than 2,100 scientists at the meeting.
        Dr. Novembre said his team was studying additional data to
determine whether AIDS developed in the two chimpanzees as an oddity
caused by a mutant strain, or whether it takes many years for chimpanzees
to develop AIDS. Dr. Novembre also said that studies were being done to
determine whether the blood from the first chimpanzee contained a microbe
that had not been detected in the primate and that might have caused the
rapid development of AIDS in the second chimpanzee.
        Scientists have been handicapped by the lack of a practical animal
model to test drugs and vaccines against AIDS. It is not clear how practical
the new findings are because chimpanzees, which are the primate closest to
man, are an endagered species.
        Nevertheless, the findings may shed new light on earlier studies
in which a number of chimpanzees have been injected with experimental
AIDS vaccines. Because chimpanzees have not been known to
develop AIDS, many scientists have questioned the validity of any vaccine
studies in the primates.
        "So, if chimpanzee do develop AIDS," Dr. Novembre said in an
interview, "then protection from a vaccine may be more relevant now
and may validate the chimpanzee for vaccine and therapeutic studies."
        The first chimpanzee to develop AIDS was inoculated with the AIDS
virus three times, begining in 1984 and through 1987. The chimpanzee did
not develop symptoms of the disease AIDS until March 1995. Tests showed a
sharp decline in the CD4 count, to about 10 cells per microliter of
blood. The normal count ranges from 800 to 1,000. A biopsy of a lymph
node showed severe depletion of lymphocytes, a finding typical of AIDS.
        Dr. Jay Levy of the University of California at San Francisco has
produced AIDS in a baboon inoculated with the second time type of human
AIDS virus, H.I.V.-2.

         James M. Scutero, original proponent of misc.health.aids
         misc.health.aids homepage: http://www.panix.com/~jscutero
   MISC.HEALTH.AIDS * HIV/AIDS TALK ONLY * NO COMMERCIALS * NO MODERATORS