PHENYLKETONURIA is caused by a genetic defect in the enzyme system that catalyzes the conversion of phenylalanine to tyrosine.¹ The hydroxylase system is a complex one composed of at least two essential enzymes, phenylalanine hydroxylase (catalyzing ...

SEVERAL breast-cancer risk factors — earlier age at menarche, delayed age at first delivery, and delayed age at menopause — suggest an underlying hormonal abnormality of ovarian or pituitary origin.^{1 , 2} The nature of this abnormality has been the subject ...

NAUSEA and vomiting of central origin occur after the administration of a variety of cancer chemotherapeutic agents and frequently constitute the major morbidity associated with such treatment. Control with classic antiemetics is incomplete and variable.

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A substantial fraction of patients with pneumococcal pneumonia have residual consolidation radiographically one month after initiation of treatment.¹ The features of the radiographic resolution of bacterial pneumonia in a group of unselected patients ...

THE friendly confidence of the Society in inviting me before and after a surgical operation on my head to fill this time-honored and privileged post has given me pause indeed. What is fresh and important that can be distilled from forty years of a varied ...

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Inborn Errors of Folate Metabolism

The established and putative inborn errors of folate metabolism and the total number of patients described with each are shown in Table 1 and Figure 3. The disorders can be classified according to ...

WIDESPREAD experience indicates that physicians have little to offer patients with stroke. The brain is thought to be extremely sensitive to hypoxia, and even a transient compromise of blood flow is generally assumed to cause irreversible damage. However, ...

Presentation of Case

A 49-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of seizures.

There was a long history of psychologic troubles, with multiple bouts of depression, intermittent abuse of alcohol and frequent complaints of pain in the left ...

One of the most exciting and potentially one of the most important new developments in medicine is that of newborn screening for metabolic disorders. This screening was begun on a statewide basis in Massachusetts in 1962 with the use of the Guthrie test ...

When Caspar Weinberger, then Secretary of HEW, published a series of so-called utilization-review regulations in the Federal Register, in November, 1974, the medical profession was understandably outraged. Particularly unrealistic and galling was the ...

Insomnia is one of the most common symptoms treated by the physician, and pharmacologic agents are the most frequent method of treatment. Because of a number of shortcomings in the evaluation and promotion of hypnotic drugs, the physician is often ...

POSITION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY WITH RESPECT TO SENATE BILL NO. 1948, AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE RIGHTS OF PATIENTS IN HOSPITALS AND CLINICS

The Massachusetts Medical Society has deep reservations about Senate Bill No. 1948 as presently ...

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To the Editor: As Canadian Law Consultant to the Secretary's Commission on Medical Malpractice in 1972, I was particularly interested in the article on medical malpractice, by Dr. Claude E. Welch in the issue of June 26, 1975.

Despite my involvement with ...

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To the Editor: At the risk of being labeled a "puppet of the administration" (my medical school's), I am going to comment on a subject that may be quite repugnant to many students — a dress code. Discussing dress codes may seem more appropriate to a 19th ...

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JOINT PRACTICE

A National Conference on Joint Practice, sponsored by the National Joint Practice Commission, will be held at the Drake Hotel, Chicago, November 2–4. Concurrent with the conference will be a workshop for State Joint ...