ODD MEDICAL PROCEDURES YOU DON'T WANT TO TRY.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: DAVE BARRY

We here at the Bureau of Medical Alarm hope you had a restful, carefree, fun-filled summer. But before you get back into ``the swing of things'' for fall, we'd like to take just a moment to remind you that practically everything can kill you.

At the moment we are particularly concerned about:

LATEX GLOVES OF DEATH

We have here a Health Advisory issued June 27 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (motto: ``We Have Not Yet Determined That Our Motto Is Safe''). This advisory, which was sent in by several alert medical people, begins with the following statement:

``In the spring and summer of 1995, the spontaneous combustion of powder-free latex patient examination gloves caused four fires in …