Arthritis and tenosynovitis may occur as complications of the intestinal-bypass procedure for morbid obesity.¹ The cause of the arthritis, however, is unknown. Circulating complement-fixing cryoprotein immune complexes have recently been implicated in the ...

The increasing frequency of marihuana use in the United States over the past decade¹ has stimulated greater interest in its possible health hazards. Since the principal route of administration in this country is by deep inhalation into the lungs, there is ...

For the 20-year period 1950 to 1969, the white Utah population experienced 22 per cent less total cancer mortality than the United States population as a whole, ranking Utah the lowest of the 50 states.¹ Certain cancers, especially those associated with ...

Patients with gastrin-secreting tumors of the pancreas or duodenum (the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome) usually have intractable ulcer disease due to hypersecretion of gastric acid. Medical therapy is frequently unsuccessful and may be associated with fatal ...

The subject of protein requirements has fascinated physicians and nutrition scientists for over 100 years and continues to spark a lively and occasionally acrimonious debate. In April, 1971, a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Energy and Protein ...

Maintenance hemodialysis and kidney transplantation have changed the natural history of renal failure and its clinical manifestations. This result is particularly striking for neurologic involvement, in which new syndromes have been defined, as a ...

It has long been known that multinucleated cells are associated with certain diseases in man, and in 1960, Barski and his colleagues succeeded in generating multinucleated cells in vitro.¹ Subsequently, Harris² and Ephrussi³ developed technics to fuse ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 15-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of the recent finding of a heart murmur.

One month before admission, while playing basketball, he was struck in the chest by the knee of an opposing player. He ...

One of the early lessons that a thoughtful physician learns is that all therapy is an evaluation of risks. In other words, does the treatment, although associated with risks, have a better result than the natural course of the disease? In massive "...

Marihuana, the dried leaves and flowering tops of the plant cannabis, has been smoked for centuries. The folklore of many cultures has attributed medicinal properties to extracts of cannabis. Although it is too early to tell, cannabis may in time be ...

Although the term "quality" is increasingly being used as an adjective in relation to health care, no adequate definition of quality is agreed upon: the definition chosen varies according to the perspective of the viewer, whether patient, physician or ...

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To the Editor: In the course of histocompatibility typing in ankylosing spondylitis and Reiter 's disease, we have found the B27 antigen (new terminology for W27) to have a lower frequency among black than among white patients. Prerequisites for ...

To the Editor: Disorders of body image are a common and troublesome complaint of patients with amputations and of those suffering from any functional or anatomic separation of receptors from the primary somatosensorial area in the cortex. Phantom limb ...

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To the Editor: Eschenbach et al., in their report on polymicrobial etiology of acute pelvic inflammatory disease (N Engl J Med 293: 166–171, 1975) stated that tuboperitoneal gonococcal infection probably caused pelvic inflammatory disease in most ...

To the Editor: Since colchicine was proposed for preventing the attacks of familial Mediterranean fever,^{1 2 3} over 350 of our patients have been put on daily maintenance therapy. The 84 patients, 13 with amyloid nephropathy, treated for one to three ...

To the Editor: In "Planning for a Pediatric Disaster — Experience Gained from Caring for 1600 Vietnamese Orphans," Stalcup et al. (N Engl J Med 293:691–695, 1975) describe and make recommendations based on San Francisco's recent problem. It is very ...

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To the Editor: Pathologists spend a great deal of time, effort and money to ensure the accuracy of laboratory results, whereas many of our clinical colleagues increasingly complain of the "unreliability of the lab." A brief exercise in elementary ...

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This book is offered as a multi-disciplinary approach to the rapidly developing field of mental handicap and is addressed to psychiatrists, school medical officers, pediatricians, general practitioners, social workers and teachers. There are three main ...

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DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF MATURITY-ONSET DIABETES MELLITUS

A symposium entitled "Diagnosis and Treatment of Maturity-Onset Diabetes Mellitus," sponsored by the University of California at Los Angeles, will be presented live via large-screen closed-...