translation help needed

[tangent]

I am working on some medical research, the results of which will be posted for everyone’s benefit. Out of ~150 references so far, I am retrieving 29 that are not in English. Worse, they are in 13 different languages! If anyone knows any of these languages or knows someone that does, I would really appreciate some translation help!

Russian – 28p (may have it covered)
Swedish – 5p
Danish – 21p
Ukrainian – 2p
German – 12p (may have it covered)
Serbo-Croatian – 7p
Italian – 3p
French – 10p (should have it covered)
Spanish – 10p (may have it covered)
Dutch – 1p
Hungarian – 8p
Japanese – 9p
Portuguese – 45p

Thanks,

Tangent

ps: on a related project, I need to find someone that know's polish.

[Craig]

Hi,
Try searching medline (go to www.bmj.com (http://www.bmj.com), and click medline. You wont get the full article in english, but all articles have their abstract in english, which may give you enough info

Craig

[tangent]

Craig,

thanks for the pointer, though most (95%) came from Medline and only about 5-10% had an attached abstract. Of the ones that did, at least 1/2 the abstracts didn't give enough information, and for those that did give their conclusions, more could be gleaned from the artical itself. Of the foreign language ones, I think only one had an abstract, though a few had one line descriptions of what it was about.

thanks though!

btw: you can access medline through www.nih.gov (http://www.nih.gov), the library is part of the NIH campus.

[tangent]

Craig,

are you the same one that wrote the medical FAQ that's so famous? - if so, I've talked to you before. also, working on that rectumumption, did the book austere medical care, or medical care in austere situations - something like that ever get published? - the one your lab section of the FAQ came from. it mentioned that the "revised" edition was to be published soon, and I have looked high and low for it or a previous edition - different title maybe? would really like to get a copy - it's great info!

On the project I'm working on, it's about using drugs past their experation date. partially politics and partially how-to. another part of it is on reusable vs disposable equipment and looking at using pressure cookers as an autoclave, in particular. There are other backburner projects...

take care,

tangent

PS: RR - when are you going to get a spell checker on this board? - soon *PLEASE!*

[Craig]

Hi Tangent,

One and the same Im afraid. Unfortunately the guy that wrote it appears to have vanished into the ether. His e-mail address is still active but he hasnt replied to a few e-mails from me. It was being puplished by an aid society so thats probably why it hasnt turned up at Amazon.

cheers

Craig

[Craig]

You probably have already seen this

http://www.mercola.com/2000/apr/2/drug_expiration.htm

confirms what we have thought for years

Craig

[tangent]

Craig,

yes, I've seen that. See my biblio (hmm, forgot to add the flying Dr's drug guide, but I don't have an exact cite on that one...) As a matter of fact, I finally tracked down Francis Flaherty, and was interviewing him yesterday (not easy - he's not in the phone book...) He's the former head of that program, the one that made several statements in that artical and on national TV that sent ripples through FDA...

On the austere med book - I didn't stop at amazon, I've been doing periodic searches on some of the used book network meta-search engines, for several years. That usually turns up obscure, privatly published white and grey literature. I have also been searching a number of relief org's web sites - some of them publish some incredibly interesting books! I presume this particular book eithor fell OOP (Out Of Print) before I started searching for it, I havn't found the right relief org yet, OR they don't have a web site. There are an incredible number of organizations that do relief work out there... which one was it? even if it's OOP, sometimes you can talk an organization into making a copy of the office/library edition for cost + a small donation.... how far did he get on the revised draft? that would be interesting.... hope he show's up again, he didn't go with that relief party to that village of canibals?, did he... ;-) if you saw my post on dental equip, there is a ref at the bottom about a simmilarly good book - putting together medical kits. the author disapeared durrring revisions - never to be heard from again... (that must be a dangerous occupation... ;-)

take care,

tangent

[tangent]

Craig,

me again - on the "austere med care" book - do you have a copy? If so - if you have the equivilent of a "kinko's copies" - a chain of copy shops here in the US where you can drop things off to be reproduced, I would be happy to cover all copying and postage costs as well as throw in a little bit for your trouble...

thanks,

Nathan

(it's just one of about a half a dozen things that made the "holly grail" list of documents that are very hard to obtain, but that I'm looking for..., and generally have been looking for, for years...)