Burkitt's lymphoma has distinctive clinical and pathological features. Although endemic in tropical Africa,¹ Burkitt's lymphoma occurs in many countries, including the United States.² African and non-endemic cases are histologically identical but ...

Hypercalcemia is a well recognized complication of certain non-parathyroid neoplasms, such as hypernephroma and squamous-cell carcinoma of the lung.^{1 2 3 4 5} In some cases, it is believed that the hypercalcemia results from release of parathyroid hormone, ...

Host response to oncogenic stimuli may involve both specific immune and nonspecific inflammatory reactions. The events that lead to the progressive growth of neoplastic cells have yet to be elucidated, but an increasingly large body of evidence indicates ...

The National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93–641) represents the most recent of Congress's four efforts in little more than a decade to establish a system for the regional planning of health services and facilities.¹ ...

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Absence of specificity in pharmacologically active agents is an obstacle to their effective use in biologic research and medicine. It follows that any approach enabling an agent to reach its target selectively and in a controlled ...

The thalassemias are a heterogeneous collection of inherited hypochromic anemias seen largely in individuals who trace their family origins to areas in which malaria has been endemic.¹ In certain geographic regions the thalassemia syndromes are common and ...

The recent outbreak of influenza due to A/New Jersey/8/76 (H_swN₁) in a number of recruits at Fort Dix, New Jersey,¹ has aroused concern that a new influenza pandemic similar to that of 1918 may be imminent. Only persons living before 1923 have a high ...

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the immunosuppressed patient is usually fatal if untreated.^{1 2 3} For several years, pentamidine isethionate has been considered the drug of choice for this infection.^{4 5 6 7 8 9 10} Although recovery rates ranging from 9 ...

Presentation of Case

A 54-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of aortic stenosis.

He was well until two years previously, when glycosuria was found. Tolbutamide was administered briefly; he lost 24 kg on a weight-reduction diet, and the ...

Werlin and his associates, in this issue of the Journal, have presented the organizational outlines for a national network of health planning and regulatory agencies created by PL 93–641. Also discussed are several of the difficulties involved in getting ...

Before a satisfactory treatment became available, the outlook for patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis was bleak. This illness, unique to the compromised host, proved fatal in 50 per cent of infantile cases during European epidemics and in about ...

The ideas and information between the covers of a medical journal are the principal concerns of those who manage the publication, but managers also indulge in other worries, especially in what might be called technical traits. Included under this rubric ...

In 1928 Harry, a young Lochinvar riding out of the west from the Kansas prairies, entered Harvard Medical School to establish a career and a profile most aptly described by the late Grantley Taylor, who termed him the last Elizabethan. His ability, ...

To the Editor: The editorial, "Hypoxic Cell Radiosensitizers,"¹ emphasized the need to develop more efficient but less toxic electron-affinic drugs as radiosensitizers. However, whereas metronidazole is indeed electron affinic as compared to a ...

To the Editor: In the case report in the March 25 issue of the Journal by Smith et al., swine-influenza virus was isolated from autopsy lung tissue of a man with Hodgkin's disease who was receiving chemotherapy. The authors state that "the apparent ...

To the Editor: We read the paper by Levy et al.¹ with considerable interest. After the report by Valdimarsson et al. showing that lymphocytes from normal persons adhered to measles-infected cells,² we determined the percentage of measles-virus–infected ...

To the Editor: We should like to report yet another metabolic complication of the jejunal-ileal bypass operation — namely, a pyridoxine-deficiency anemia. Our patient, a 28-year-old nurse, weighed 134 kg before operation and became pregnant 18 months ...

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To the Editor: In a recent article (N Engl J Med 295:32–34, 1976) Dr. James L. Luke points out the lack of both academically inclined forensic pathologists and research in the field of forensic pathology. Unfortunately, I do not see any solutions to ...

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To the Editor: The following article, published in the Bloomington Daily Pantograph, Bloomington, Illinois, on July 5, 1931, describes a malpractice suit against doctors who were defended by Abraham Lincoln in 1856. It was two years before the Lincoln-...

To the Editor: The point raised by Dr. Koch-Weser in the July 1 issue of the Journal is a serious one. A stop has to be put to the routine activity of copious and unrestrained reprint requesting. Since many colleagues have started using also a computer ...

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SYMPOSIUM ON CARDIAC EMERGENCIES

"Cardiac Emergencies: Their Recognition and Treatment," a symposium to honor the opening of The Hospital of St. Raphael's Verdi Memorial Building, New Haven, Connecticut, will be held at the hospital, October 6–8. The ...

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On August 23, the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society terminated the routine use of x-ray mammography for women under age 50 who are enrolled in a five-year joint NCI-ACS nationwide project aimed at early detection of breast cancer. ...