New infectious diseases continue to be found with the aid of increasingly sophisticated laboratory methods for identifying microbial agents. Often, it is through investigation of an epidemic — as recently with Lassa fever¹ and Ebola-virus disease² —that ...

An outbreak of severe respiratory illness occurred in the summer of 1976 in Pennsylvania, chiefly among persons who attended a state American Legion Convention. An estimated 182 cases of pneumonia occurred, and 29 people died. A detailed description of ...

Infants born to mothers with disseminated lupus erythematosus are usually normal but on occasion have been found to have some manifestations of the disease, generally transient, including a discoid lupus rash,^{1 2 3 4} positive L.E.-cell preparations,^{5 6 7 ...}

Several lines of evidence point to a possible role for autoimmunity in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.^{1 2 3} However, studies assessing humoral⁴ and cell-mediated immunity⁵ to some Central-nervous-system components, such as crude Central-nervous-...

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NGF and Disorders of the Nervous System

In previous sections, we have discussed the role of NGF in the life of its target cells. The ability of NGF to provoke neurite outgrowth from embryonic chick ganglions in vitro is the basis of ...

AN epidemic of acute febrile respiratory disease occurred among persons who had been in Philadelphia during July and August, 1976. Patients were divided into two groups: those who attended the Pennsylvania State American Legion convention or were present ...

The increasing vulnerability of physicians to damage suits, usually malpractice actions, has frequently been pointed out in this column. It now seems clear that medical examiners and coroners' physicians carrying out officially authorized or ordered ...

Presentation of Case

A 58-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of bilateral pleural effusions.

Four years previously symptoms of a respiratory-tract infection developed, with a cough and scanty sputum; the cough persisted. Two years later he ...

The terror of the unknown is seldom better displayed than by the response of a population to the appearance of an epidemic, particularly when the epidemic strikes without apparent cause. Philadelphia, in July and August, 1976, experienced such a ...

Everyone knows that prevention is better than cure; it cannot be otherwise when an ounce of the former is worth a pound of the latter. Moreover, the truth of the aphorism has been officially certified by governments.^{1 , 2} He (or she) who would question ...

The specialty of forensic pathology has become seriously understaffed in recent years, and its outlook is bleak. Of about 350,000 licensed physicians in the United States, some 10,000 are pathologists. Although miniscule by comparison, the current number ...

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To the Editor: Recently, a Journal CPC discussed a fatal case of fulminant acute hepatitis and cerebral edema in a patient treated with aspirin for probable juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.¹ The CPC report came a week after a similar experience of ours in ...

To the Editor: The possibility that viruses are one of the causes of the juvenile-onset type of diabetes mellitus has recently received considerable attention. A number of viruses, including those of mumps, Coxsackie B4 and rubella, as well as ...

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To the Editor: I read with interest the letter by Penner et al. (N Engl J Med 297:401, 1977) reporting their experience in treating acute bleeding episodes in hemophilic patients with lower than conventional doses of factor VIII. I too have observed that ...

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CONGRESS ON MEDICAL EDUCATION

The 74th Congress on Medical Education, presented by the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association in collaboration with the Association for Hospital Medical Education, the Federation of State Medical ...

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