ONE of the major advances in the delineation of the pathogenesis of the respiratory-distress syndrome was the discovery that the amount of pulmonary surfactant correlated well with its development.¹ Interest subsequently focused on the analyses of these ...

IT has been suggested that the abrupt discontinuance of large doses of propranolol in patients with coronary-artery disease may have serious consequences in the form of myocardial ischemia.^{1 2 3 4 5} With the widespread application of propranolol in ...

AMONG countries with acceptable registration information about cancer and vital demographic data, Canada has the highest incidence of cancer of the lip. When age-standardized on a European population, data from five Canadian provinces (1960–62) showed an ...

SEVERE combined immunodeficiency disease represents the most extreme form of functional deficiency of both the thymus-independent (B-cell) and thymus-dependent (T-cell) immune systems as manifested by the absence of normal antibody responses and cell-...

THERE are some infants with esophageal atresia, with or without tracheoesophageal fistula, whose esophageal segments are too far apart to allow safe primary anastomosis without tension. Howard and Myers¹ introduced manual bougienage to elongate the upper ...

OF all the contraceptive methods developed in the past five years, perhaps the most widely used is the copper intrauterine device. Copper metal in contact with biologic substrates is highly reactive. The copper ions thereby produced also have biologic ...

FOWLER, who described the single-breath nitrogen test in 1949, proposed it as a useful test for abnormal intrapulmonary gas mixing and uneven ventilation.¹ Since then, it has been used quite extensively both clinically and in several large epidemiologic ...

NOW that the doubts about Britain's continuing membership of the European Economic Community have been resolved by the decisive outcome of the recent referendum in which the British electorate voted convincingly in favor of staying in Europe, it is ...

Presentation of Case

A 27-year-old registered nurse was admitted to the hospital because of a question of hepatitis.

She was born with a nevus on the scalp. Twelve years before admission the lesion was excised, but eight years later it recurred, darkened ...

During the past two years several disconcerting reports have described ventricular arrhythmias, severe angina and myocardial infarction after abrupt cessation of propranolol therapy in patients with angina pectoris. The latest in the series is by Miller ...

Characterization of developmental flaws in lymphoid cell lines of immunodeficient infants has occasionally led to successful treatment by transplantation of appropriate cells or tissues. Histocompatible bone marrow^{1 , 2} and fetal liver³ have been used as ...

Inappropriate secretion of prolactin is now recognized as one of the important causes of galactorrhea of diverse origin, including that seen after disruption of the portal circulation connecting the hypothalamus and the pituitary, after administration of ...

The National Fire Protection Association, which has its headquarters in Boston, makes annual estimates of the number of fires, fire deaths, fire injuries and fire losses in the United States. Fire deaths for 1973 (the latest year for the Association's ...

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To the Editor: Seroepidemiologic studies^{1 , 2} showed that human populations rapidly acquired antibody to the Epstein–Barr (EB) virus. EB-virus-seropositive persons rose from 10 per cent among infants six months to one year of age to 65 per cent among ...

To the Editor: As a clinician involved in the care of several hundred patients with inflammatory bowel disease, I wish to comment on the review of sulfasalazine by Goldman and Peppercorn (N Engl J Med 293:20, 1975). This otherwise excellent review is ...

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WENDELL G. SCOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE

The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and Washington University School of Medicine have named the Honorable Christopher S. Bond, Governor of Missouri, as the fourth annual Wendell G. Scott lecturer. The Govvernor's ...

A physical law of legislative politics holds that if virtually everyone is for something and few are against it, something will be enacted.

If the law is valid, why, then, are we still awaiting passage of a national-health-insurance program? Proposals for ...