PROFESSIONAL personnel providing health care have long suspected that they have a greater than average risk of viral hepatitis,^{1 , 2} and have been concerned about this problem. The inconvenience and potential cost of an acute illness that usually causes ...

ALTHOUGH sinusitis is common, its cause is often obscure, leading to empiric use of antibiotics. Most previous studies of sinusitis have failed either to eliminate contamination of the cultures by nasal organisms or to make an adequate diagnosis by ...

RECENT studies indicate that 3,3′,5′-tri-iodothyronine (reverse tri-iodothyronine) is a normal component of human serum and thyroglobulin, and that peripheral metabolism of thyroxine is an important source of this iodothyronine.¹ Interestingly enough, the ...

BY use of the leukocyte agglutination technic, antigens specific for blood neutrophils have been identified and classified into NA, NB1, and possibly other systems.^{2 , 3} In the NA system two alleles, NA1 and NA2 have thus far been identified.⁴ Fetal-...

AUTOANTIBODIES can cause hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia.¹ That autoantibodies can also cause neutropenia seems likely, and reports purporting to document this phenomenon have been published.^{2 3 4 5} However, the validity of positive results with the ...

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SINCE 1961, five and possibly six new disorders have been attributed to congenital defects in the uptake or utilization of folic acid, an essential vitamin in man. Although these disorders are still considered rare, the number of ...

THE etiologic use of allergen inhalation tests discussed here is based largely on our own experience at the Brompton Hospital. Some workers also use inhalation tests as a diagnostic aid to distinguish asthma from other forms of bronchial disease by its ...

RECENT studies suggest the involvement of the acetylcholine receptor and the immune system in the pathogenesis of the neuromuscular disorder, myasthenia gravis.^{1 2 3 4 5} Patrick and Lindstrom¹ produced an experimental myasthenic-like syndrome in rabbits ...

ONE of the most cherished among the rare paintings owned by the Countway Library is the appealing portrait of James Thacher, M.D. Appealing? some critics might remark with a rising inflection. Yes, appealing, because of the very qualities that only fine ...

Presentation of Case

A 58-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain.

Seven years previously she entered the hospital because of abdominal pain; the diagnoses of acute pancreatitis and chronic alcoholism were made. During the ...

During the past 10 years thyroid hormone measurement methods, and thus approaches to thyroid physiology and disease, have changed dramatically. This change has been due largely to the development of radioimmunoassay (RIA) systems specific for pituitary ...

A recent publication¹ reviewing four projects aimed at improving medical care in jails and prisons in Massachusetts, San Francisco, New York City, and Dade County (Florida) points out the few successes and many shortcomings of these projects and makes ...

I'm gonna live fast, love hard, die young, and leave a beautiful memory. [Country and Western Song Title]

The Health-Care System

This is the era of the health-care system. Everyone, the politician, the administrator, the health professional, and recently ...

Hospital care is losing some of its traditional support because it costs so much, produces dramatic, but marginal, benefits, and is often unrelated to modern health problems. On the other hand, the hospital outpatient department, along with ambulatory ...

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To the Editor: The report by Perry and his colleagues¹ on glycine metabolism in brain and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with various types of hyperglycinemia highlights an important general theme — namely, the relation of amino acid concentrations in ...

To the Editor: Myelopathy is not listed among the several well established neurologic syndromes associated with thyrotoxicosis. We have recently encountered a patient in whom thyrotoxicosis was closely associated with subacute posterolateral myelopathy. ...

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During the past few years, the concept of radiology gamuts has been popularized at various radiologic meetings and has rapidly found its place in the daily radiologic vocabulary. The team of Reeder and Felson have been the leading exponents of the gamut ...

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BERT B. HERSHENSON MEMORIAL LECTURE

The 1975 Bert B. Hershenson Memorial Lecture, entitled "Anesthesia and the Parturient: A Transatlantic View," will be delivered by Dr. J. Selwyn Crawford, at the Boston Hospital for Women Auditorium, on Tuesday, October ...

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