A small number of patients with acute viral hepatitis have a severe illness, often characterized by coma, ascites, protracted jaundice and markedly abnormal liver function.^{1 , 2} These patients may die during the acute illness, or chronic progressive liver ...

Acquired cold-induced urticaria is disorde in which patients, upon exposure to cold, experience an urticarial eruption that may evolve into angioedema. Recognized precipitating factors include cryoglobulins, cryofibrinogens, and cold hemolysins, but in ...

Myasthenia gravis is a synaptic disorder that produces electrophysiologic¹ as well as structural² defects at the neuromuscular junction. The exact origin of the muscular dysfunction and the factors that initiate the process have not been clearly ...

The cause of myasthenia gravis remains unknown, but several lines of evidence suggest that immune mechanisms have an important role in the disease. The basic defect in myasthenia lies at the myoneural junction, and recent studies suggest that the primary ...

Although the clinical relevance of many drug-drug interactions has been seriously questioned, no one would argue that interactions involving drugs that have a low therapeutic ratio or are used to treat potentially fatal diseases can be clinically ...

The low-risk patient who receives obstetric care at Kaiser–Permanente Medical Center is offered two alternative modes of management: traditional care or the Family Centered Perinatal Care Program, described in 1972.¹ As one step in the development of the ...

The sex chromosome abnormalities are one of the most common types of chromosome disorders, occurring once among every 1100 females and once among every 380 males. Their effect upon the clinical appearance or phenotype of the patient varies from the subtle ...

Swine influenza virus, or an antigenically closely related virus, has been considered to be the etiologic agent of the 1918 influenza pandemic.^{1 2 3 4} Influenza in swine has continued to occur in the United States⁵ and other countries, but despite ...

Oil rigs, tugs and giant tankers are now familiar sights off the East Coast of Scotland, and as the first oil begins to be pumped ashore, it seems appropriate to reflect on some of the medical problems involved in extracting oil from the seabed and ...

Presentation of Case

A 35-year-old black man was admitted to the hospital because of hypertension.

He was well until 20 years previously, when he was first found to have hypertension. Four years later he was begun on hypotensive medications, but with poor ...

As the art of therapy is slowly transformed into the science of therapeutics, treatment of the individual patient can be expected to be a source of considerable confusion. A growing list of problems includes the use of antibiotics for infections not ...

Normal resting muscle exhibits at the end plate constantly recurring miniature potentials attributable to the release from motor-nerve endings of subliminal quanta of acetylcholine, which diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to receptors in the ...

During the first half of this century, cancer and allied diseases were generally thought to be caused by a variety of internal, presumably genetic and inherited, factors. The viral theory of cancer and leukemia was in disrepute. During those early years ...

APPLICANTS FOR FELLOWSHIP

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Chiotellis, Philip, Cape Cod Medical Center, Hyannis 02601. Faculty of Medicine National University of Athens, 1966.

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To the Editor: We read with considerable interest the study by Newcomer and his colleagues,¹ in which breath hydrogen rise after lactose ingestion was found to be the most accurate indirect determinant of lactase deficiency. Using an end-expiratory ...

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To the Editor: The results of the Gonorrhea Therapy Study (N Engl J Med 294:1–4, 1976) are reassuring since they indicate that the gonococcus still remains sensitive to a variety of antibiotics. However, one issue is puzzling: the relative de-emphasis of ...

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To the Editor: Dr. Vall-Spinosa's recent letter (February 5) on the regulation of the number of medical subspecialists calls for some comment from a chairman of medicine, because some of us are being reproached for having insufficient faith in the "laws ...

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HEADACHE AND PAINS OF THE HEAD, FACE AND NECK

The Page and William Black Post-Graduate School of Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine will present a course entitled "Headache, and Other Pains of the Head, Face and Neck," to be held April 8–10. ...

Lacking political strength to enforce its claims for government financial support, the postwar scientific community originally prospered on Cold War anxieties, good will, and high, often exaggerated, expectations about the value of research. Long use of ...