THE arrest of traumatic bleeding is mainly due to the adhesion of platelets to reactive surfaces of the vascular subendothelium^{1 2 3} and to their subsequent aggregation by a special "storage-pool" of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) secreted from platelets ...

THE occurrence of thyrotoxicosis in chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis has been well documented.^{1 , 2} It has also been noted that the presence of thyrotoxicosis with chronic thyroiditis does not necessarily signify the supervention of Graves's disease³; the ...

AMONG the agents employed by granulocytes to kill bacteria are certain substances chemically related to oxygen, including Superoxide,^{1 , 2} hydrogen peroxide,³ and possibly hydroxyl radical and singlet oxygen.^{4 5 6} These substances are generated in a ...

SINCE the demonstration of the metabolic defect in Niemann-Pick disease as a deficiency of sphingomyelinase in 1966,¹ it has been necessary to use radioactively labeled sphingomyelin for enzymatic diagnosis by means of peripheral leukocyte preparations² ...

RECENT studies have noted an increased association of the histocompatibility antigen W27 (HL-A27) with various diseases. These diseases have included ankylosing spondylitis,¹ Reiter's disease,^{2 3 4} and acute anterior uveitis.^{5 6 7 8} In a previous study⁹ ...

THE current emphasis on increasing the effectiveness of health care in the United States has led to a growing concern about paramedical personnel. Much of this concern aims at upgrading the skills of such personnel, allowing them to perform tasks ...

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SKILLED physicians examining a patient may disagree regarding the findings. Such disagreements reflect the imperfect reliability of clinical methods and data. A decade ago, Fletcher¹ urged physicians to abandon unreliable methods and ...

THE first paper in this series* outlined the reasons for employing exercise testing in the clinical evaluation of pulmonary disease, presented the principles underlying the measurements, and described briefly the normal respiratory responses to exercise. ...

ALTHOUGH British doctors can practice medicine with far less fear of litigation than their American colleagues, they are sometimes involved in complaints that patients make against certain aspects of their treatment under the National Health Service. In ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A seven-and-a-half-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of diabetes insipidus and short stature.

She was born of a normal pregnancy and delivery, weighing 3.27 kg (25th percentile). Her initial physical ...

Subacute thyroiditis is an acute, subacute or chronic, generalized, self-limiting, nonbacterial, inflammation of the thyroid. Characteristic histologic findings include giant cells, granulomas and pseudotubercles. Characteristically, the thyroid gland is ...

Albert Einstein's famous search for a unified field theory failed, but Daniel Palmer was more fortunate. In 1895 he came up with a unified theory of disease with a single cause for which he devised a single treatment, thus cutting away the encumbering ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health column this week presents an article entitled "Equus caballus," in which Robinson examines the impact of the horse on the health of man. He notes the many shared diseases, including the equine encephalitides. ...

In 1910 the United States Census counted 19.83 million horses on United States farms. Man's long dependence on, and love affair with, the horse had reached its apogee. Though not the first domesticated animal, Equus caballus, more than any other, ...

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To the Editor: In several recent studies a differential distribution of subtype d and y has been found between acute and chronic forms of hepatitis B infections, and it has been suggested that these differences in subtype ratio may be attributable to ...

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ANTI-NEOPLASTIC DRUG SYMPOSIUM

A symposium, entitled "Use of Anti-Neoplastic Agents in Non-Neoplastic Disease," and sponsored by Brown University, will be held at the University in Providence, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, October 8.

Further information may ...

The predicament of government health planners is that they have singled out the profit motive as a serious troublemaker in the national health enterprise, and they believe only government can tame it. But they work for a President who is seeking to ...