Membranous nephropathy is a glomerular disease manifested by proteinuria and well defined lesions of the capillary wall. Some patients with these lesions have other, associated systemic diseases such as lupus erythematosus or diabetes mellitus. In others ...

Although most children with nephrotic syndrome do well with corticosteroids alone, almost 85 per cent of those who respond to steroids have subsequent relapses.^{1 , 2} Some require multiple or prolonged courses of therapy leading to serious side effects. ...

Studies of abnormal sex-chromosome constitutions in human beings, mice and other animals have established the importance of the Y chromosome in mammalian sex determination. Thus, mammalian testicular differentiation occurs only when all or part of the Y ...

The recent detection of the presumed hepatitis A virus^{1 2 3} and the development of sensitive and specific laboratory assays for the detection of its antibody (anti-HA)^{1 , 4 5 6} provide for the first time an opportunity to study in depth the epidemiologic ...

IN February, 1976, a new influenza virus was isolated during the course of an epidemic of respiratory illness at Fort Dix, New Jersey. This virus was subsequently shown to be similar to the influenza A viruses causing illness in swine, and thus caused ...

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Interaction of Liposomes with Cells

Since the demonstration that liposomes can transport entrapped agents into cultured cells and influence intracellular catabolism¹⁰ an ever-increasing number of mammalian and other cells have been ...

Although botulism is characterized by weakness and hypotonicity, it is rarely considered in the diagnosis of the hypotonic infant. We report on two infants whose clinical course and electrophysiological findings were consistent with botulism and from whom ...

IN spite of the fact that the hazards of prescribing potent drugs and the risks of overdosage and adverse reactions and interactions are constantly being stressed in medical journals and postgraduate medical centers, many aspects of doctors' prescribing ...

Presentation of Case

A 37-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a mass in the right suprarenal region.

He was well until one year earlier, when he began to have morning headaches. Ten months before entry he saw a physician, who found that ...

...on placing two pints of the urine over the fire, when one-half was evaporated, the other formed itself into a white mass, like the soft white of an egg when boiled.¹

Thus did Domenico Cotugno report the results of his urinalysis when treating a ...

For many, biologic regulation still means homeostasis. This fertile conceptual scheme of Walter Bradford Cannon continued to be useful beyond his own masterly exploitation of it.¹ Some say it still is. "Any paper published today, at least in physiology, ...

Not until next spring, and perhaps never, will a reasonably valid assessment of the USA swine-influenza immunization program be possible. In the meantime, the program stumbles along with estimates in early September that the amount of vaccine ready for ...

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To the Editor: Associations between HLA antigens and disease (e.g., HLA-B 27 and ankylosing spondylitis or B 8 and gluten enteropathy) have most commonly been explained on the basis of a pathogenetically important role for HLA-linked immune-response ...

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To the Editor: Pursuant to the recognition of individual life-style as a key factor in health (N Engl J Med 293:773–774, 1975) and to Dr. Merchant's suggestions for economic pressures to promote self-care (N Engl J Med 295:118–119, 1976), I should like ...

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To the Editor: More than 15 per cent of the United States population consists of nonwhite racial minority groups, chiefly Afro-Americans, American Indians, Chicanos and Orientals. Certainly, there is at least as much illness in members of nonwhite racial ...

This book contains six chapters on various aspects of diabetes, written by noted experts in the style of review articles. The purpose of the book, as stated in the foreword, is "to bring together work that is going on at growing points of diabetic medical ...

Recent advances in the chemotherapy of malignant neoplasms are largely due to exploitation of the cell-cycle concept. The original picture of reproducing mammalian cells repetitiously passing certain fixed landmarks like the hands of a clock, though ...

CLINICAL HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP

The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis will hold its annual workshop and scientific meeting, October 19–24, at the McCormick Inn, Chicago, illinois.

Further information may be obtained from William F. Hoffman, Jr., The ...

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