Malakoplakia is an uncommon acquired inflammatory granuloma characterized by the collection of large mononuclear cells with abundant cytoplasm called "Hansemann macrophages."¹ These macrophages contain large intracytoplasmic inclusion with calcium-laden ...

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing immunosuppressive therapy. Even when treated with pentamidine isethionate, 32 per cent of the cases are fatal.¹ This infection is the most frequent cause ...

IN 1956 Sun and Shay reported that for anticholinergic drugs to inhibit gastric acid secretion effectively, it was necessary to administer them in an "optimal effective dose," which is just below the dose at which undesirable side effects (such as blurred ...

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Erythroid Progenitor Cells

The cellular phenomena that occur during the early phases of erythropoiesis involve commitment of progenitor cells to the erythroid pathway and subsequently to the expression of certain individual globin ...

Intestinal nematodes other than pinworms are often thought of in this country as unimportant or novel. Yet, in many low-income rural communities in the Southeast, half or more of the children have infection with Ascaris lumbricoides or Trichuris trichiura ...

The emergence of acute interstitial pneumonia in immunocompromised patients is a serious, often life-threatening event.¹ A treatable cause of this syndrome is the yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. Although definitive diagnosis of invasive pulmonary infection ...

"The Way Forward"¹ was a brave title for Mr. David Ennals, Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, to choose for still another document on priorities in the National Health Service recently published by his department. In the introduction he ...

Evolution has provided an elaborate network of regulatory systems that stabilize body-fluid volume, temperature and composition. This stability insulates cells from an ambient hostile world and assures them the best possible conditions in which to ...

Presentation of Case

A 66-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a mass in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.

The patient had a history of congenital dislocation of the hips with degenerative joint disease. Fifteen months before ...

IT is easy to write about tight little symposia of 20 or 30 invited speakers who give short talks, followed by lengthy and often illuminating discussion. These talks, considerably improved and altered by hindsight, are then published a year or two later, ...

A widely prevalent disease that is uniformly fatal in outcome and often devastating in manifestations presents an ideal circumstance for the ready acceptance of a promising treatment. If the treatment cures almost all patients within weeks, it rapidly ...

As expected, the article on "Treatment of Chronic Stable Angina" by Dr. Murphy and his colleagues in the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study, which appeared in the September 22 issue of the Journal along with Dr. Braunwald's editorial ("Coronary-...

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To the Editor: The book review by Waitzkin of Medicine under Capitalism (N Engl J Med 297:458, 1977) could have been dismissed as another otiose example of the endorsement of Marxist dogma if it had not appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, ...

SEMINARS IN MEDICINE OF THE BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL

Seminars in Medicine of the Beth Israel Hospital will be held in the George Sherman Auditorium, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, on the following Tuesdays at 4 p.m.

Date

Program

January 10

Pharmacology of ...

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