The availability of a test for detecting hepatitis B surface antigen (HB_s Ag) in the last several years has uncovered the problem of chronic carriers of HB_s Ag and their potential risk to the public. Although Mosley has warned about the danger of ...

Classic hemophilia, or hemophilia A, is an Xlinked recessive disorder that can result in lifelong recurrent bleeding in the hemizygous person. Although it has long been possible to identify the affected person by measurement of the level of factor VIII ...

Since the isolation and characterization of somatostatin from the hypothalamus, ¹ this tetradecapeptide has been shown to be present in substantial amounts in the gastrointestinal tract and endocrine pancreas of various avian and mammalian species, ...

The clinical usefulness of lung sounds has been limited by difficulties in verbal description: "It almost seems as if every physician has his own classification."¹ Visual displays by frequency spectral-analysis technics and amplitude-versus-time plots^{2 3 ...}

Ischemic heart disease is the most common serious health problem of contemporary society. In this country alone, more than 675,000 patients die each year from ischemic heart disease and its complications; approximately 1,300,000 patients have a myocardial ...

Ventricular dysfunction generally results from a combination of abnormal loading and depression or loss of myocardium. Thus, in the presence of reduced ventricular performance, it is necessary to distinguish the role of myocardial depression from that of ...

Familial systemic lupus erythematosus offers a unique opportunity to evaluate the role of genetic immunologic and viral factors in its patho-genesis. In the 25 years since the report of the disease in twins,¹ there have been approximately 50 families in ...

Whatever the defects of the National Health Service (NHS), it certainly provides the frame-work for the delivery of health care to all those in need, although it has become increasingly apparent that there has been too little emphasis on preventive ...

Presentation of Case

A 68-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of diarrhea.

One year earlier she came to this hospital because of episodes of weakness and was found to have ventricular irritability with runs of ventricular tachycardia that ...

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The well documented report of Rimland et al. on page 953 in this issue is the third example^{1 , 2} in the last several years of multiple cases of hepatitis B attributable to HB_s Ag-positive oral surgeons themselves rather than to contaminated instruments or ...

The usual counseling situation with a hemophilic family is that a sister or cousin or niece of a hemophilic patient wishes to have a child. Knowledge of the suffering and expenses incurred by the affected relative has caused indecision and frustration. ...

With the discovery of cells containing immunore-active somatostatin in the endocrine pancreas,¹ and their subsequent identification as D cells,² it became predictable that disorders of pancreatic D cell would ultimately surface. Indeed, an apparent ...

IN the United States, during most of this century, maintaining a patient on an addictive drug as a form of medical treatment has created painful moral problems for professionals and public alike. The view is widely held that drug-substitution therapy is ...

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To the Editor: The language of medicine was once Latin. Then, in the interests of clarity it became English. Now, a separate language has appeared: "Medispeak." Medispeak is the language of case presentations and of medical and scientific lectures. For ...

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This fascinating and scholarly effort is intended, as stated in its introduction, "to provide a basic frame-work for those interested in diagnosing and interpreting bone lesions found in excavated skeletal series." The author further states that it is ...

"The mental hospital, as constituted in the early 20th century, is dead. A new definition of mental hospital is emerging which will continue to be reshaped on the basis of judicial adjudication and public scrutiny." So state the editors of this volume, ...

SYMPOSIUM ON PEDIATRIC PERSPECTIVE OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS

The departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota and the Institute for Pediatric Service of the Johnson & Johnson Baby Products will co-sponsor a ...

When a major organization with a percussive public-relations section chooses only to whisper about relevant big news — well, that's akin to the Sherlock Holmes watchdog that didn't bark or Admiral Nelson responding to retreat signals with a telescope held ...