BECAUSE of the demonstrated effectiveness of chemotherapeutic agents used singly or in combination in the management of patients with advanced breast cancer, evaluation of their efficacy in conjunction with operation for the treatment of women with a ...

IT is estimated that 166,000 metric tons of particulate lead are emitted into the atmosphere each year in the United States.¹ There is a growing realization that this lead, most of which is emitted by automobiles, may be a widespread and potentially ...

WITH the increasing demand for platelet concentrates to be used in the supportive therapy of patients with aplastic anemia and acute leukemia, it has become extremely important to study methods that may increase the efficacy of platelet transfusions. One ...

EXPERIMENTAL and clinical observations suggest that glucocorticoids have an important role in the normal process of fetal lung maturation. Receptors for glucocorticosteroids have been demonstrated in fetal lung tissue of several species,^{1 2 3} including ...

IN recent years large and increasing numbers of foreign medical graduates (FMG's) have come to the United States, ostensibly for training. A sizable proportion of these physicians have remained beyond their training period and have become permanent ...

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Physical and Emotional Stress

During their careful studies in conscious dogs, Verney and Rydin⁴ observed that exercise, as well as a sudden noxious stimulus capable of frightening the animal, was followed by a decrease in urine flow. ...

THE coagulation of blood occurs via two pathways in which activation of specific plasma proteins initiates a cascade of reactions that ultimately lead to a fibrin clot. In the first pathway, injury to the endothelial cell layer exposes collagen^{1 , 2} or ...

Presentation of Case

A 52-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of vomiting.

Three years previously hypertension was found, and alpha-methyldopa and diazepam were prescribed. Five days before admission he came to the clinic because of ...

A sharp increase in cortisol in amniotic liquid is a normal event after about the 34th week of gestation (as noted by Fencl and Tulchinsky elsewhere in this issue of the Journal); cord blood levels of cortisol rise around the 36th week of gestation, and ...

At the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in the year 300 B.C. or thereabouts, devotees submitted their urgent questions to a female soothsayer known as the pythoness. Unfortunately, the mantic murmurs with which this personage responded were unintelligible to ...

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To the Editor: In "Fluoridation and the Occurrence of Down's Syndrome" (October 17, 1974), which showed an overall 15 per cent increase occurring in the fluoride group over the non-fluoride group, I found most interesting the authors' attempts to ...

To the Editor: At present, the development of new drugs in the United States is carried out predominantly by the drug industry. Economic considerations by their very nature severely restrict the number of drugs developed for relatively rare diseases and ...

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To the Editor: Dr. Edelman's letter in the September 19, 1974, issue refers to our paper published in the Biophysical Journal in 1973 that deals with violations of energy conservation created by membrane "pumps" using ATP for energy. In this paper, which ...

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AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

Anyone wishing to contribute a paper to the Medical Care Section Program of the next annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, which will be held in Chicago, November 16–20, may obtain forms for abstracts ...