In recent reports the Group B streptococcus (Streptococcus agalactiae) has been identified as a major cause of infection in the newborn,^{1 , 2} and in some centers it is now the organism most commonly isolated from septicemic newborn infants. Eickhoff et ...

Functional disturbances of the renal tubule constitute a final common pathway through which a wide variety of diseases may manifest themselves. Thus, any patient with the Fanconi syndrome, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, or renal tubular acidosis should ...

Human leukemic cells possess a number of biochemical properties suggestive of RNA tumor-virus infection. These include high-molecular-weight RNA (70S) and RNA-instructed DNA polymerase (reverse transcriptase).^{1 , 2} The RNA-enzyme complex is closely ...

Previous studies have indicated that psychotherapy may ameliorate hypertension. Investigators using a variety of technics, including yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and biofeedback, have observed blood-pressure reductions in many patients.^{1 2 3} Most of ...

Since the 1973 Supreme Court rulings on abortion, fetal experimentation has been of considerable concern at both the national and the state level.¹ A moratorium on federally funded nontherapeutic fetal research, written into law by Congress in July, 1974, ...

Role of the Light Chain in the Antibody-Combining Site

Recombination and affinity-labeling experiments have provided evidence that both heavy and light chains are required for antibody activity, a finding indicating that each chain contributes to the ...

Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped from 379 dollars into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are mailed over and over to people with ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 52-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of fever.

She was well until 14 years previously, when polyarthritis developed, and a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis was made. Two and a half years before ...

IT was not until 1938, five years after Lancefield introduced streptococcal precipitin typing, that streptococci belonging to Group B were related causally to severe human disease.¹ That Streptococcus agalactiae could be an important cause of perinatal ...

The study on psychotherapeutic control of hypertension by Stone and De Leo in this issue of the Journal is intriguing. Most clinicians and investigators would concur that rest and relaxation may lower arterial pressure, particularly in the early stages of ...

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The Department has been engaged in a concerted effort during the past few years to deinstitutionalize patients who occupy facilities designed to provide more intensive services than they medically require. The process of discharge from hospitals or other ...

To the Editor: An article in the Journal ¹ suggested that serum lysozyme may be useful in the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. We have determined serum lysozyme in 42 patients with Crohn's disease and 30 patients ...

To the Editor: In an article by Murray et al. in the Journal (March 13, 1975) the authors concluded that the anion gap is significantly lower in patients with multiple myeloma than in control normal subjects. Cationic paraproteins are apparently ...

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To the Editor: We are struck by apparently increasing zeal in the use of antipsychotic medications in some private, public and general hospital psychiatric services. The more potent agents (piperazine phenothiazines and haloperidol) are increasingly ...

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To the Editor: The recent review (N Engl J Med 293:999, 1975) of my book, Rheumatology for Clinicians, had such a delightful first paragraph that it might seem ungrateful for me to comment on the points raised in the second paragraph. Yet the reviewer, ...

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This book represents an original attempt to present a clinically useful overview of rheumatologic diseases by organizing the material according to common presenting musculoskeletal problems. It is written primarily for the internist or general ...

On first examining this monograph, written by the professor of endocrinology at the University College Hospital Medical School of London, one is tempted to respond in the usual way of reviewers by cataloguing its features: weight 1.3 kg; text pages, 329, ...

SEMINARS IN MEDICINE OF THE BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL

Seminars in Medicine of the Beth Israel Hospital will be held in the George Sherman Auditorium, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, on the following Tuesdays at 4 p.m.

Date

Program

February 3

Familial ...

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