Despite extensive literature relating serum lipids to coronary heart disease, there have been only a limited number of population based studies that have related specific serum lipoprotein fractions to the disease. Most of these have been in white ...

To study the nature of the suicidal behavior that occurs among hospitalized medical and surgical patients, we surveyed the suicide attempts made by patients in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital during the seven years from 1967 through 1973. In ...

Apoferritin, a compound thought to consist of 24 subunits and with a molecular weight of approximately 450,000 daltons, is the major cellular iron storage protein.¹ Although this compound is primarily located within cells, recently developed sensitive ...

In 1969, when rubella vaccine was first licensed, the United States adopted a policy of vaccination of children of both sexes at one to 12 years of age, a policy that in practice focused on preschool children and children in the early grades of school. In ...

Most drugs are carried from their sites of absorption to their sites of action and elimination by the circulating blood. Some drugs are simply dissolved in serum water, but many others are partly associated with blood constituents such as albumin, ...

On the basis of her contributions to industrial medicine Dr. Alice Hamilton was an extraordinary woman of her generation. If one considers her involvements with issues concerning the social welfare of women, her status increases to an even greater degree. ...

Some years ago in the Journal, Paul Freund wrote that the law was basically conservative and adapted slowly and cautiously to change and advances in knowledge and social policy.¹ In recent years, psychiatrists in public service, particularly those serving ...

The Classic Antihistamines (H₁ Inhibitors)

Since the early work of Dale and Lewis had indicated that histamine may be important in a number of disorders, there was great interest in the report by Bovet and Staub, in 1937, that a series of compounds ...

Presentation of Case

A 44-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of virilization.

Her menarche had appeared at the age of eight years and was not affected by monthly injections of an unknown medication. By the age of 11 years she had well ...

During the halcyon years of the community mental-health movement in the early 1960's, "suicidology" was launched as the study of "thanatopic impulses."¹ "Suicide Prevention Centers" were created across the country, using resources such as 24-hour "hot-...

For several years we have enjoyed a comfortable certainty that serum ferritin would provide, in healthy people, an accurate reflection of the body's stores of iron.^{1 , 2} Although the test is exasperatingly difficult to perform, once established it seemed ...

So many vocations are now identified — often self-identified, to be sure— as professions, that the designation has become all but meaningless. Traditionally and ideally, however, a member of a profession pursues a scholarly discipline in a way that ...

A 37-year-old gravida 9 died at 32 weeks from a ruptured uterus without operative intervention.

Previous pregnancies, except in number, were unremarkable. Seen earlier at a free-standing satellite clinic, the patient had been told that she was pregnant ...

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To the Editor: I suggest that Revelle¹ misconstrues the relation between parental coital rate and sex ratio of the resulting children. The evidence suggests (contrary to his inference) that it is high (not low) human coital rates that produce boys.² He ...

To the Editor: The comment on alcoholism and the United States Army by Dr. Cox (N Engl J Med 293:310, 1975) contends that there would be a considerable increase in the number of alcoholics and the prevalence of (diagnosed) simple drunkenness if the upper ...

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To the Editor: Anyone familiar with the present state of the chiropractic community could cite three glaring errors of fact, the pattern of which suggests that Firman and Goldstein confined their statistical research (issue of September 25, 1975) to a ...

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Dr. Frederick A. Mausolf has gathered together a distinguished group of contributors in compiling this volume. The major subjects presented include metabolic disease, collagen and rheumatic disease, nutritional disease, endocrine disease, diabetes ...

The first paragraph on the flyleaf of the dust jacket of this book reads, "This is a medical history of chlorpromazine (CPZ), 'the first drug, in Western Medicine, found to have specific psychotrophic effects against a range of mental disease ...

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ADVANCES IN CARDIOLOGY FOR PRACTICING PHYSICIANS

A course, entitled "Advances in Cardiology for Practicing Physicians," and sponsored by New York University Post-Graduate Medical School, will be held March 25–27. The program will emphasize practical ...

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