HEPATITIS B is an important occupational hazard for health-care personnel.¹ Epidemic hepatitis B has been reported in dialysis units,^{2 3 4} laboratories,⁵ operating theaters,⁶ and hospital wards.⁷ Patients with myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative ...

AVAILABLE experimental and epidemiologic evidence points to the existence of non-parenteral mechanisms of transmission of the hepatitis B virus in addition to the classic percutaneous route of acquisition of the infection. However the mode of spread and ...

INFANTS born to mothers with hepatitis B virus infection are at high risk of development of the maternal infection as manifested by their post-partum acquisition of the hepatitis B surface antigen (HB_s Ag).^{1 , 2} Previously, we proposed that since ...

HOME therapy of hemophilia is now offered to patients with hemophilia by a number of medical centers. Initial reports of short-term success^{1 2 3 4 5} and the freedom of the afflicted from physicians and hospitals⁶ have encouraged this accelerating trend. ...

THE liver is the major site for the biotransformation of many drugs; the half-life of such drugs may be prolonged in patients with hepatic dysfunction.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} A technic for studying hepatic mixed-function oxidase activity in vivo was suggested by ...

CIRCULATING phagocytic cells are crucial elements in the host's defense against microbial invasion. The cell type of greatest consequence in this function is the mature neutrophil, although mononuclear phagocytes (monocytes and macrophages) also play an ...

THYROID storm is a syndrome characterized by exaggerated thyrotoxic manifestation, fever, and prominent symptoms of the cardiovascular, the gastrointestinal, and the central nervous systems. The clinical presentation is extremely variable. Its severity ...

THE diagnosis of diseases of the pleura and peritoneum often requires histologic examination of material from the serosa or from related organs. For this reason, blind biopsy of the lung, liver, pleura or peritoneum is often performed. However, serious ...

THE second General Election of 1974 has now been fought and won by the Labour Party, and the Queen's speech has been delivered, confirming that the Government intends to pursue many of the plans for nationalization outlined in the Party's manifesto. ...

Presentation of Case

A 44-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of dyspnea.

He was well until seven years previously, when dyspnea developed, and an x-ray film of the chest (Fig. 1) revealed diffuse parenchymal infiltrates in both lungs and ...

One of the new insights emerging through careful and imaginative study of the hepatitis B surface antigen (HB_s Ag, Australia antigen) in various clinical settings is that the transmission of viral hepatitis is not fully defined. This lack of understanding ...

Turkey's decision on July 1, 1974, to set aside its Opium Pact with the United States by resuming the cultivation of the opium-poppy flower, from which illegal heroin and medicinal pain-killing opiate drugs are extracted, has provoked not only angry ...

Most pathologists have been trained for years to immerse surgical specimens and viscera removed at autopsy in formalin, sometimes even before they are examined and dissected, to preserve their cell detail and configuration. The result is a colorless, hard,...

The Massachusetts program designed to detect inborn errors of metabolism and transport in newborn infants has already been described.¹ Although such a testing program can lead to the early diagnosis of these disorders and to the prevention of certain ...

To the Editor: The letters by Miller and by Casey and Denney (N Engl J Med 291:796–797, 1974) reporting a disappearance in neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia after treatment with dimethylaminoethanol (deanol) may be of great potential interest for ...

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To the Editor: Longmire et al. (N Engl J Med 289:763, 1973) reported an increase of in vitro splenic IgG synthesis in Hodgkin's disease, particularly in organs that were themselves either uninvolved or lightly involved by the disease. By contrast, a ...

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COURSE IN NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY

The Rocky Mountain Neuro-Ophthalmology Course will be held at the Hilton Inn, Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 6–8.

Further information may obtained from the Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico, 1007 Stanford ...

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While Mr. Nixon served as President, a frequent lament among persons concerned with medical affairs and government was that he was oblivious of their interests. Conspiracy theorists ascribed his alleged indifference to an abundance of Christian Scientists ...