IN the past decade, much interest has been focused on low-renin essential hypertension, the prevalence of which has varied from 12 to 46 per cent in various publications.¹ Despite an intensive and continuing search, the cause of this state remains ...

More effective chemotherapy of childhood leukemia has led to the emergence of a generation of patients who are approaching adolescence and adulthood. Consequently, questions regarding their ability to progress through puberty and to achieve normal ...

Cholecystectomy is one of the most frequently performed abdominal operations in England and Wales, being outnumbered by only appendicectomy and inguinal herniorrhaphy,¹ and there is some evidence that the frequency of gallstones in the general population ...

Cell-surface markers have been used to characterize normal human lymphocytes into two distinct populations, thymus-derived (T) and bone marrow-derived (B) cells. B cells can be identified by the presence of immunoglobulin (Ig) determinants and receptors ...

IN spite of some recent questioning of the actual magnitude of the migration of foreign medical graduates (FMG's) to the United States,¹ approximately one out of five licensed physicians and one out of three hospital residents in this country are trained ...

New Hormones

In addition to the hormones already discussed, several polypeptides have recently been identified and physiologic phenomena observed suggesting that other substances may be involved with the initiation and modulation of the normal digestive ...

Ventricular fibrillation is the likely mechanism for sudden death and the leading cause of fatality among patients with coronary heart disease. In this country alone, ventricular fibrillation claims about 450,000 lives per year. Since prolonged survival ...

Presentation of Case

A 66-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of weight loss.

He was well until five years previously, when he began to lose weight in a setting of emotional stress. Two years later diabetes mellitus was found and was ...

Since the discovery of renin by Tigerstedt and Bergman 80 years ago, controversy has surrounded its role in the diagnosis and management of the hypertensive patient.¹ For many years even its existence was questioned. In the 1930's a boost in its ...

The onset of puberty is a dynamic process that occurs over a period of three to five years in the normal person. In a strict sense, puberty is the time at which reproduction becomes possible, although the term is sometimes used to describe prepubertal ...

Although Harvey discovered the circulation in 1616, it was not until 216 years later, in 1832, that fluids for infusion, or large-volume parenterals, were first administered intravenously. During the cholera epidemic that swept Europe in the late 1820's, ...

DEATHS

Gilmore — John Edward Gilmore, M.D., of Plymouth, died on March 13. He was in his 53d year.

Dr. Gilmore received his degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1951. He was a member of the American College of Radiology and the American Medical ...

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To the Editor: In his entertaining editorial in the February 5 issue of the Journal Dr. Crosby laments the loss of our "comfortable certainty" that the serum ferritin concentration would reflect accurately body iron stores in uncomplicated ...

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To the Editor: As ardent supporters of home dialysis both for Washington State and for the nation, we believe that Delano and Friedman (N Engl J Med 294:616, 1976) completely miss the point in their advocacy of inexpensive, manually operated home ...

To the Editor: It is regrettable that Dr. Bartlett, in his reply (N Engl J Med 294:733, 1976) to Dr. Porschen's letter (294:399, 1976) concerning clinical microbiologists and clinical pathologists, chose to extend his interpretation to "many" clinical ...

To the Editor: The Sounding Board of December 4, 1975 (N Engl J Med 293:1202), suggests that the numbers of internships and residencies offered has ballooned unnecessarily, thus creating a distorted "health-care need." This development has resulted in a ...

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LATIN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY

The Latin American Medical Society will hold their first annual dinner-dance at Anthony's Pier 4, Boston, on Sunday, May 23, at 6:00 p.m. Reservations must be made in advance and the fee is $17.50 per person.

Further ...