IT has been known for centuries that diabetes mellitus is a familial disease. The observation that diabetes "runs in families" is ascribed to Rondelet, who in 1628 described three families in which diabetes occurred in father and daughter.¹ The increased ...

ACQUIRED agammaglobulinemia was reported by Zinneman as early as 1954.¹ In two of three cases the cause was not apparent, and the third appeared to be secondary to generalized sarcoidosis. Wollheim observed acquired hypogammaglobulinemia in two distantly ...

A PROGRAM to identify and treat employed persons with asymptomatic, uncomplicated hypertension has been developed for members of the United Store-workers Union. Its strategy has been to facilitate access to care in an environment conducive to long-term ...

THE national shortage of physicians and the deficiencies in the distribution of physician manpower continue to receive widespread attention and concern. Over the years many articles in both the professional and popular press have varied in their analysis ...

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Postoperative Myocardial Infarction

Electrocardiographic evidence of acute myocardial infarction early after operation has been reported in 5 to 40 per cent of patients undergoing elective coronary-artery bypass graft procedures (...

AFTER the introduction of supervoltage equipment into clinical practice some 25 years ago, radiation therapy assumed an increasingly prominent role in the management of patients with cancer. Current estimates are that 50 per cent of patients with cancer ...

GIVING diets often brings out the priest in an otherwise phlegmatic physician. Food habits, after all, have been one of the ways in which groups have separated themselves from other peoples. One religion chews what another culture eschews, to add ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 14-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of Hodgkin's disease.

She was well until five weeks previously, when left axillary swelling developed; it enlarged progressively and became painful. One week ...

A frequently voiced objection to screening programs for hypertension is fear of "overloading the system"—i.e., if less than 10 per cent of the estimated 23 million hypertensive patients are currently under care, who is going to treat these newly ...

On April 1, 1975, the Joslin Auditorium was the scene of four outstanding presentations by Drs. Peter Forsham, Kenneth J. Ryan, Mary Ellen Avery and Miles Shore to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of Dr. Priscilla White's practice of medicine. Each ...

I fear writing a book on how to write. Especially if the topic is medical writing. The author is so vulnerable, for even if he avoids obvious grammatical errors such as using periods to set off a non-sentence, and even if he keeps his peace with Fowler, ...

The birth of a handicapped child can occasion much hardship for both the child and his family. Not the least anxiety is how to obtain special inpatient treatment on a short-term or long-term basis. Massachusetts is fortunate to have a residential facility ...

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To the Editor: Correspondence of February 6 (N Engl J Med 292:320, 1975) on the pathogenesis of congenital malformations referred to my hypothesis of embryonic neuropathy. This hypothesis is that a number of congenital malformations are due to sensory ...

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To the Editor: Gorbach et al.¹ recently described a high isolation rate of heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) producing strains of Escherichia coli from the fecal samples of American students in whom diarrhea developed while they were studying in Cholula, ...

SOCIETY FOR EAR, NOSE AND THROAT ADVANCES IN CHILDREN

The third annual meeting of the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children will be held at the Hospital del Niño IMAN (Institucion Mexicana de Asistencia a la Niñez), Mexico City, November 5–...