The higher rate of atherosclerosis suffered by patients with diabetes mellitus^{1 2 3 4} and their alleged increase in cholesterol gallstones^{5 6 7 8} suggested that cholesterol metabolism may be altered in this disease. Although some aspects of lipid ...

Herpes simplex virus commonly produces severe infections in immunosuppressed patients. Painful, nonhealing mucocutaneous ulcerations have been well documented in renal-transplant patients,^{1 , 2} in patients with hematologic and lymphoreticular neoplasms³ ...

Chlamydia trachomatis is a causative agent of sexually transmitted diseases, the frequency of which probably exceeds even that of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.^{1 , 2} Except for ocular infections, including neonatal conjunctivitis, little information has appeared ...

Acute pelvic inflammatory disease remains a frequent source of morbidity in sexually active women and may result in sterility or chronic pelvic pain or both.¹ In 1974 the Venereal Disease Control Advisory Committee of the Center for Disease Control² ...

Other Possible Pineal Hormones

In addition to melatonin, the mammalian pineal contains, and probably releases, two groups of compounds that may have hormonal activity: other methoxyindoles, such as 5-methoxytryptophol; and peptides, such as arginine ...

Few meical phenomena are more readily recog-nized yet regularly relegated to a position of inconsequence as the presence of pelvic phleboliths. Over a century has passed since Rokitansky¹ confirmed the presence of calcified masses attached to pelvic veins,...

Specific tissue burdens of aluminum have been found to be increased in a number of conditions, and evidence has been presented that aluminum may be neurotoxic.^{1 , 2} The source of the aluminum has not been defined. An extensive review of biologic aspects ...

During the height of the 1975–76 influenza epidemic in Massachusetts,* several patients with acute inflammatory parotitis were seen in the Emergency Department of the Cable Memorial Hospital within a few days. Subsequent analysis of these and other cases ...

Several groups of investigators have suggested that pharmacologic doses of certain water-soluble vitamins, including vitamins B₆, B₁₂ and C and niacin, may be useful in the treatment of schizophrenia.¹ Oral doses of 10 to a thousand times the minimum ...

Presentation of Case

A 50-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a neurologic disorder.

She was well until 2 1/2 years earlier, when she sat down, heard a snapping sound and experienced the abrupt onset of low-back pain that was aggravated ...

One characteristic of contemporary physicians is the ease with which they have accepted Shakespeare's tenet that "Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved...."¹ Oncologists, rheumatologists, tissue transplanters and others are ...

Contrary to what some seem to believe, the Journal is neither Harvard-owned nor Harvard-dominated. Nevertheless, it is Harvard-surrounded, for the Journal's editorial office occupies as a paying tenant much of the top floor of Harvard's Countway Library ...

The current buzz-word is "primary care." A shortage of this commodity has been diagnosed, and a number of prescriptions written to remedy the deficiency. However, although we talk about the manifestations of the syndrome a good deal of ambiguity about the ...

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To the Editor: Recent discussion in the Journal has focused on criteria of process and outcome suitable for evaluating care of patients with high blood pressure (N Engl J Med 296:145, 1977). The Journal's editorialist, Dr. Robert H. Brook, has called for ...

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To the Editor: The recent paper by Linn, Stephenson and Smith¹ provides some useful insights, particularly into the importance and difficulty of measurements of severity in burn injury, and the quantification of the economic penalties accruing to ...

To the Editor: The work described by Baker et al. in the February 3 issue of the Journal illustrates an important new dimension of the lead-poisoning problem. The close association of lead particulates, apparently brought home from the workplace, and ...

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Medicine and botany were once close allies. Physicians gave drugs, and drugs came from plants. Physicians of today rely even more on drugs than their counterparts of the past, and the majority of drugs in current use still come from plants — nearly 80 per ...

These two books are, in their different ways, outstanding additions to the small number of books on adolescent medicine.

The volume under that title is edited by Ralph Lopez, who states in the foreword that this series was conceived so "that for those ...

I used to despair that economists were running the world according to their own lights, buttressed by their peculiar belief that their discipline is somehow free of bias and subjectivity. The trend seemed to be abating, but Secretary of Commerce Juanita ...

The receipt of the following books is acknowledged, and this listing must be regarded as sufficient return for the courtesy of the sender. Books that appear to be of particular interest will be reviewed as space permits.

Orthopedics

Biomechanics of the ...

AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON THE FAMILY AND HEALTH

The Royal College of General Practitioners and the University of Western Australia will sponsor a conference on the family and health entitled "The Changing Family...Who Cares?", August 14–20 at the ...

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