IT is generally assumed that patients with thrombocytopenic purpura have antibodies to platelets. Indeed, in the majority of patients such antibodies can be demonstrated.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} Therefore, we suggest that this entity be designated idiopathic ...

Tardive dyskinesia is a choreic movement disorder characterized by involuntary twitches in the tongue, lips, jaw and extremities.¹ It typically occurs in susceptible persons after chronic ingestion of neuroleptic drugs and may involve an imbalance in the ...

Recent retrospective studies have reported possible teratogenic effects of chronic maternal alcohol abuse during pregnancy on offspring, termed the fetal alcohol syndrome.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9} The features of this syndrome are reported as a recognizable ...

During the decade from 1960 to 1970, for the first time since the Great Depression, a sizable segment of the United States population experienced an increased death rate. Among men 25 to 34 years old, the overall mortality rate rose 16 per cent. The ...

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IN 1832, Elliotson described a patient with heart disease and "cold fits" who passed bloody urine "whenever the east wind blew."¹ Halfa century later, Rosenbach described patients in whom hemoglobinuria occurred after their feet were ...

Everything alive needs iron, not too much of it and not too little. In the biosphere, where this toxic, essential element is pervasive, life has adapted itself to maintain a precarious balance. Organisms have means to exclude the iron not needed, to ...

Presentation of Case

A 50-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of acute myelogenous leukemia.

The patient was well until eight months previously, when he had an illness similar to a viral infection that persisted and was accompanied by rise ...

Violent crime, one of the most repugnant forms of human pathology, should be of special interest to physicians. But if they, as professionals, are to contribute more toward solving this problem than sutures and transfusions, they must bring to their ...

Many medical investigators now think that prospective randomized clinical trials offer the most reliable way of comparing alternative treatments. Although the concepts of randomized trials are quite widely understood, most physicians would be unsure how ...

IN 1970 the Association of American Medical Colleges set a goal of 12 per cent minority representation in American medical schools by the 1975–76 academic year. This goal was not achieved. First-year minority enrollment peaked at 10 per cent in 1974–75, ...

Because of the serious consequences of the growing number of human injuries that involve firearms, gun control has become a concern of public health. In 1975, firearms caused the deaths of 271 persons in Massachusetts. Of that number, 145 (54 per cent) ...

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To the Editor: The interesting discussion on saccharin by Isselbacher and Cole (N Engl J Med 296:1348–1350, 1977) states that the banning of saccharin by the FDA was required by the Delaney Clause and suggests that the Delaney Clause ought to be revised. ...

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REVIEW OF MEDICINE

Huntington General Hospital in Boston will present a program entitled "Review of Medicine for the Family Practitioner — A Core Curriculum," on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month beginning September 14. The lectures will be ...