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Tuberculosis - pages on DOTS/RNTCP

I had recently started a Wikipage on RNTCP, and only later did i realise that you have previously contributed a lot towards Tuberculosis , and that you had discussed about the need for including/integrating DOTS on the wikipage Tuberculosis treatment. Now it looks odd to have a separate page for RNTCP without one for DOTS. What shall i do ? Seethahere 10:46, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Careful

It's "sTIBogluconate", not sTILBogluconate.

No harm done, this is just so you know. DS 15:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Protocol

Also, it's not generally considered polite to remove messages from your talk page unless they're grossly insulting. You can archive if/when it gets too big, yes, but just deleting... not really done. DS 03:35, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Protocol

Okay, firstly, you should leave messages on other users' talk pages, not on the userpages themselves. This is because, when you leave the message on the talk page, this triggers the "you have new messages" announcement.

As for why you shouldn't remove messages - there are various reasons for that. It can be construed as looking like you're trying to hide something... it's not good to delete warnings... there was an ArbCom ruling that it's not good to tamper with other people's opinions and statements... anyway, it's not like we're strapped for memory here. If the page gets too full, you can archive it. DS 22:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it is too unreasonable to archive messages you have read by deleting them - they are still available in the page history. Is there a policy guideline that they should be archived, and not deleted? Thue | talk 09:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Body louse

Good work on Body louse! :)

Couldn't you also just put the clothes with cannot be boiled in sealed plastic bags, and then wait until all the lice have hatched and starved to death? Thue | talk 09:28, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Not practical because the eggs don't hatch until they come into contact with warmth. I have no idea how long eggs can survive in that sort of "suspended animation" sort of state.--Gak 20:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey doc!

Hello, for some reason I hadn't noticed your extensive contributions to infectious disease subjects. Good thing too, because it was one of the fields Wikipedia needed help in. Where do you work? Have you considered joining our doctors' mess at Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine? JFW | T@lk 16:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Tuberculosis

Hi, Gak. JFW mentioned that you may be able to help rescue the featured status of tuberculosis. Some of the problems are listed here. It needs to be brought to standard, more along the lines of cystic fibrosis or AIDS, which are recent medical featured articles. If you're able to help, please drop a note on the Featured Article Review page. Thanks! Sandy 21:02, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Influenza

Page now nominated as a FAC. Comments and suggestions are welcome on the review page. Thank you. TimVickers 00:53, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance

Thanks for recent formating and additions to Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. I added some addition PubMed abstract and article links to the citations you had kindly provided.

The article in the 'Annual review' section indicates that referral to haematologist only occurs when serum electrophoresis shows an increasing paraprotein level, and only then does the haematologist arrange a skeletal survery. Your addition of a diagnosis criteria section implies that referral to a haematologist and the skeletal survery are performed prior to making the diagnosis, rather than at a later date. This seems to me, as a nonspecialist, contradictory - either skeletal surveying is generally infrequently initially performed (vs the list of all possible tests that a textbook might list, but which a specialist may commonly choose not to perform), or the info in the 'Annual review' section needs to be relocated within the article. I would be grateful if you could help clarify this point; please see Talk:Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance#Diagnosis, Haematology referral and skeletal surveying :-) David Ruben ^Talk 02:21, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Antimalarials/antiprotozoals

Just a quick thank you for your recent additions to primaquine, as well as your creations of artesunate, pamaquine and nifurtimox. Keep up the good work. Best, Fvasconcellos 15:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Fractional values?

At talk:degrees of freedom (statistics), you wrote:

Who's written that fractional degrees of freedom are possible?? Why add confusion to an already confused article? --Gak 20:59, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't know who added that, but since your comment I've added a bit on what non-integer degrees of freedom are used for in statistics. Michael Hardy 18:25, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Phase 1

I saw your addition on VX 950. I wasn't aware this was only in Phase 1. Is it generally your view we should have articles on compounds that are still undergoing testing? We certainly don't have a policy yet, and we have many similar articles. I must admit I have written about dabigatran and rivaroxaban, despite them being experimental compounds, but the ximelagatran experience has shown that even post-phase III agents can still bork quite badly. JFW | T@lk 12:33, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

No idea! VX 950 is now into phase 2 testing but who knows? I am not aware or policy either, but drugs are so often resurrected in different guises. Like Adefovir for HIV was later resurrected for HBV. And I guess I also have patients in clinical trials so it is nice to know what the long term consequences are, e.g., I have a few patients who were in clinical trials for loviride as monotherapy and ended up with K103N mutations and the consequences of that. --Gak 14:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Immunoperoxidase staining

Hi there, I noticed that you left some sort of template asking for more context to be put on the immunoperoxidase staining page. It would be helpful if you put some more specific comments on the talk page. Dr Aaron 14:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Done.--Gak 00:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Khao Phra Viharn

Hello, Gak. I've been fleshing out the Preah Vihear/Phra Viharn article. Wondering if your trip there was recent and whether you entered from the Thai side. My wife and I are thinking of visiting later this year and want to know whether the Cambodians require a visa. I've heard that they don't, but you never know... Writer128 (talk) 20:09, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Khao Phra Viharn 2

Thanks for your response and kind words of advice. Actually, I can manage in Thai myself, having lived in Thailand for six years in the 60s and 70s. Visited Preah Vihear in 1973 or 74 and somewhere have photos from that visit. Are you a Thai speaker as well? I notice you added the Thai name to the article.Writer128 (talk) 03:44, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the advice. I'm looking forward to the trip. Writer128 (talk) 01:13, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Surrogate endpoint

Hi, I merged Surrogate markers into surrogate endpoint, as you suggested back in the day. Please review the post-merge cleanup I did to the article, since you are an authority on this topic. EAE (Holla!) 03:46, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Survey request

Hi,
I need your help. I am working on a research project at Boston College, studying creation of medical information on Wikipedia. You are being contacted, because you have been identified as an important contributor to one or more articles.

Would you will be willing to answer a few questions about your experience? We've done considerable background research, but we would also like to gather the insight of the actual editors. Details about the project can be found at the user page of the project leader, geraldckane. Survey questions can be found at geraldckane/medsurvey. Your privacy and confidentiality will be strictly protected!

The questions should only take a few minutes. I hope you will be willing to complete the survey, as we do value your insight. Please do not hesitate to contact me or Professor Kane if you have any questions.

Thank You, Sam4bc (talk) 15:05, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Mosquitoes

Thanks for your work on these. As the main contributor to the Plasmodium page and links there from - mosquitoes show up from time to time. While I know a bit about these I have been reluctant to do much with them as it is an area of considerable complexity. Im impressed any one is prepared to do this. DrMicro

Differential diagnosis

In the article Rabies, is the addition of "differential diagnosis" necessary to the title? I am new to this field, and would like your opinion on that. One the key campaigns in Rabies was in simplifying the titles so that readers new to the field would not be overwhelmed (we had all short of unusual names, such as "The spatial and temporal distribution of opossum rabies", you can see the older version here [1]). ChyranandChloe (talk) 03:07, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

OK

Thanks, I'll see what I can do, but why does it say that it needs references if I can see plenty of references? Buɡboy52.4 (talk) 14:56, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I looked through the page and it seems that is a genus of mites, which meens that it is suppose to have a group of mites. But I do think that it should be revised to "encyclopedia standard!" And I also found(though I am not sure that plaidgerism is in WP:Policy) plaigerism to the web page, http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Animalia/Trombiculidae_Family.asp, or it may be possible that the web page used wikipedia... Buɡboy52.4 (talk) 00:31, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello agian. I just wanted your opinion before I continued editing, so I added info, rearranged the titles, and added a taxonomy in my sandbox, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bugboy52.40/sandbox2. Tell me what you think. Buɡboy52.4 (talk) 03:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, if you can get me some links to prove that only Leptotrombidium transmit scrub typhus, I'll make a whole new article on the genus, and move the the incorrect info to the new article. Buɡboy52.4 (talk) 14:59, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for you great amount of patience, but I finally got a chance to create trombiculidae, if you need anything else, just ask! Buɡboy52.4 (talk) 03:10, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Steward elections

• Thanks for your vote, for or against, and your constructive comments. Apteva (talk) 14:19, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Rufskin

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DYK nomination of Leptotrombidium

Hello! Your article Leptotrombidium was recently nominated at Did you know to be featured on the main page. The nomination has now been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 18:51, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Just so you know, there is a little bit that needs to be clarified in the article before it can be promoted to the main page; the second paragraph (about how the mites transmit the disease to humans) is a bit unclear, and I have not been able to understand if it's saying they are not vectors, or what (or, indeed, what the difference is between a vector and a carrier). If you could rewrite that paragraph to make it a bit clearer, especially for lay readers, that would be very helpful. There is more discussion at Template talk:Did you know#Leptotrombidium. Thanks, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:21, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Gak, sorry to bother you again, but I just wanted to see if you're planning on clarifying the bit of confusing text in the Leptotrombidium article, which people are still discussing at DYK (the link I gave in my previous message). The concern is just that I'm a little confused about what the mites are classified as (vectors, reservoirs, carriers, etc?) and how they pass the disease to humans. If you could clarify that bit of the text, it would help avoid a lot of arguing :) Thanks, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 02:11, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

References added and clean-up template removed.--Gak (talk) 01:03, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Leptotrombidium

On March 15, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leptotrombidium, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congratulations! PeterSymonds (talk) 20:29, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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Email address

Hello GAK! I have read your article about Chinese bronzes. Is it also possible to contact you via Email? Greetings from Germany --Reiner Stoppok (talk) 12:30, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

CPR

Hi there,

I saw your edit to Cardiopulmonary resuscitation earlier, and i have for the time being reverted it, and started a discussion on the article talk page on the reasons, but in a nutshell, i've looked at your source article, and I think the information you wrote is not fully supported by the source, and i think it may be in the wrong place in the article, but I do think some further information about end of life care for terminal patients in relation to CPR would be valuable. Hope you can contribute again (and my apologies for the reversion). Regards, OwainDavies ^(about)_(talk) edited at 18:14, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Chloramphenicol

Hi Gak. When I was five years old, I was given chloramphenicol to preemptively fight a brain infection for a bad head injury. Approximately five months after the treatment, I had a large number of bruises all over my body, and my platelet count was down to about 40,000. My parents were told that I had developed aplastic anemia because of the Chloramphenicol, and would likely die. Within a month, my platelet count had doubled; it was assumed that I was one of the rare few to make a spontaneous recovery. My blood counts were found to be normal before long.

I'm in my thirties now, and have had a very hard time getting medical insurance because of this episode. The insurance companies consider me to be a 'major risk' because of the aplastic anemia diagnosis, despite the fact that I have had normal blood counts for the last 30 years. My own research seems to indicate that some people develop bone marrow suppression after a cumulative dose threshold is exceeded, and that this suppression can occur months after therapy discontinues.

I'm writing to you since you are the author of the major rewrite for the chloramphenicol article, which is largely still intact. Do you know of any good journal articles that I can send to my insurance underwriters to possibly debunk the theory that I am high risk?

I understand that the incidence of aplastic anemia in response to chloramphenicol is approximately 1 in 30,000 people, and that a full recovery from such a state is quite rare. Am I truly this rare patient, or was my reaction more easily explained? Any and all information you can supply to me is incredibly valuable, since I am currently uninsured. Thanks very much in advance for any help you can give me. Sincerely, Linda.130.13.166.168 (talk) 13:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your response. Yes, you are correct that I made a full recovery without a bone marrow transplant. The university near my home has a copy of the book you mentioned --- I plan to copy the relevant sections and see if I can track down the pediatric hematologist that originally diagnosed me; perhaps he can "reverse" the diagnosis and make me "insurable" once more. Thanks again for your help. Sincerely, Linda.130.13.166.168 (talk) 21:52, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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History of malaria

Thank you for your contribution to history of malaria. The link you added is identical to reference 80, may be we should avoid overlinking Hempelmann (talk) 13:56, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Oops! I did not realise that. My mistake, sorry. --Gak (talk) 12:12, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

removed link, please continue to improve the article further Hempelmann (talk) 18:34, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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References

Please use secondary sources per WP:MEDRS. Cheers --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:16, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Why are you not using secondary sources per WP:MEDRS? [2] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:37, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Was not aware of this policy.--Gak (talk) 11:50, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

No worries. This is still a primary research study [3] and commenting on a retrospective analysis is WP:UNDUE IMO.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:08, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Why, when people are going out and buying VitD on the basis of this report?--Gak (talk) 13:20, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Your entry in [Management of Depression] regarding Chalder et al (2012) on exercise

Recently, you edited the above mentioned article and added this:

A randomised-controlled trial 361 patients published in 2012 found no benefit from exercise

You cite:

Chalder et al. “Facilitated physical activity as a treatment for depressed adults: randomised controlled trial” British Medical Journal, 2012.

Now I wonder if you've actually read the study. Because, if at all, this study shows that simply encouraging someone to exercise has no effect. Which is equal to encouraging people not to be depressed. The study has been poorly designed, and you might agree on that if you take the time to dive into the matter. A hint: the exercise group were mainly encouraged by phone and had to self-report whatever they did as exercise. "Walking to a car" or "taking the stairs" was included in the definition for exercise. Depressed people have been repeatedly shown to have poor compliance. Would you want to rely on such data to make a claim about physical exercise as a non-treatment for depression? It has been shown to reduce depression in chronically ill people http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2227111

--84.130.180.155 (talk) 13:28, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Wikipedia pages

Dear Author/Gak

My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Barrett's Osophagus. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please visit my Talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance. Hydra Rain (talk) 17:12, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Medicine

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Spotlight - Simplified article translation

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Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

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I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

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Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

• Swedish
  Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
  Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
• Dutch
  Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
• Polish
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• Arabic
  The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.

Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [6]

News in short

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To come

• Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
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Hi, just a gentle reminder that I have sent a Wikipedia email to you. Regards! Cerevisae (talk) 15:27, 23 December 2019 (UTC) --Can you send it again, please? What is it about? Gak (talk) 01:19, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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Name of precursor to oral penicillin

Please check the identity of the precursor used for making Penicillin V. Is it phenoxyacetic acid, which corresponds to the structure illustrated in penicillin V, or phenoxyethanol as stated in the section Nomenclature​. Petergans (talk) 10:50, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

It is phenoxyacetic acid; however, phenoxyethanol has also been used as a precursor and that is how it was discovered (it is converted to phenoxyacetic acid in the normal fermentation process)Gak (talk) 20:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

So, phenoxyethanol was the precursor to phenoxyacetic acid, not to pen. V! Is using phenoxyethanol now an obsolete process? On other matters; It's not easy for me to get to the University library, so I wonder if you can help with these questions.

• Is 6-APA made from pen. G? If so, that would explain why pen.G is manufactured on a large scale.
• Is 6-APA isolated or is it created and used in situ? The article 6-APA is not very informative.

Petergans (talk) 22:04, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Phenoxyethanol converted to phenoxyacetic acid converted to pen V: Use of phenoxythanol is now obsolete. All the 6-APA now made commercially is derived from pen. G. The full synthetic route for 6-APA has been described, but yields from that route are very low, which means all the 6-APA currently available is ultimately derived from naturally-derived penicillin G. You can bulk-buy 6-APA if you wish: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/a70909 Gak (talk) 16:33, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

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