WITHIN the spectrum of clinical expressions of coronary atherosclerosis, a syndrome intermediate between intermittent angina pectoris and myocardial infarction has been designated as acute coronary insufficiency. The subsequent risks of myocardial ...

BONE disease consisting of osteoporosis, osteolytic lesions, and pathologic fractures is a common finding in multiple myeloma and is one of the major problems in clinical management. Although chemotherapy has beneficial effects on many aspects, ...

HUMAN chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a glycoprotein hormone normally secreted by the placenta from the sixth day after conception until delivery.^{1 , 2} Shortly after biologic methods for detecting this hormone in the urine of pregnant women were described,...

NOSOCOMIAL viral infections have generally received little attention. The great numbers of patients admitted to pediatric wards with viral infections suggest that such infections could be a problem of some magnitude. Mufson and his co-workers¹ found that ...

IN 1877 Friedrich¹ described a lesion in the renal papillae characterized by necrosis extending into the adjacent pyramids. Although he described a patient with prostatic hypertrophy and hydronephrosis, it was Robbins and Angrist² who implicated urinary-...

IN a recent review, Mosley¹ summarized current information indicating the existence of viral hepatitis that is neither Type A nor B. Clinicoepidemiologic evidence to support this conclusion was based on discrepancies in the incubation period for ...

Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is a lymphotropic herpes virus in man.¹ Its main target is the human B lymphocyte.² Only B lymphocytes and most if not all B lymphocytes have specific EBV receptors.³ Recent evidence suggests that the complement receptor of the B ...

FATAL hepatitis was observed in two three-month-old infants born successively to an asymptomatic carrier of hepatitis B surface antigen (HB_s Ag). We attempted to place these unusual cases in perspective by reviewing the current literature bearing on the ...

SINCE the medical profession has been urging the government to set up an inquiry into the state of the National Health Service (N.H.S.) it might have been thought that the announcement by the Prime Minister that a Royal Commission¹ is to be appointed for ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A seven-week-old girl was admitted to the hospital for cardiac catheterization.

She was born at full term after an uneventful primiparous pregnancy. The birth weight was 2.7 kg. Cyanosis and a heart murmur were noted ...

Ideally, therapy for patients with ischemic heart disease should both relieve disabling symptoms and increase life expectancy. Aortocoronary bypass grafts¹ can relieve severe angina in most patients^{2 , 3} but have appreciable immediate costs. The decision ...

Almost all the biologically active protein and polypeptide hormones, including those synthesized and secreted by the normal placenta, have been implicated in ectopic humoral syndromes associated with a wide variety of tumors in women and men.^{1 , 2} With ...

Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I ...

Those who abhor bird imprisonment allege that the caging of creatures primarily equipped for free-soaring movement is a particular refinement of cruelty. Fortunately, many of the confined species, especially the parrots and budgerigars, do not range ...

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This book is small enough to be carried conveniently in a portfolio. The title may be a bit misleading because to some it may convey the impression that it is a comprehensive coverage of the subject, which it is not. For all intents and purposes it is an ...

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In recent decades the behavioral and social sciences have abandoned an earlier interest in genetic aspects of human behavior and have focused almost exclusively on environmental factors. One reason is that the necessarily imprecise and indirect methods of ...

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Anatomy and Histology

Anatomy of ...

SYMPOSIUM ON DECISION MAKING IN DIAGNOSTIC MEDICINE

A symposium on "Decision Making in Diagnostic Medicine," sponsored by the Society of Nuclear Medicine, will be held on Sunday, January 25, 1976 at the Omni Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. The meeting will deal ...

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The so-called War on Cancer that was initiated by the National Cancer Act of 1971 has become the object of increasingly serious quarrels in Washington, so that, before rhetorical smoke obscures the issues, it might be useful to attempt a delineation of ...