Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, a polymerizing enzyme that catalyzes the addition of deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates to the 3′OH terminus of single standard poly-deoxyribonucleotide or oligo-deoxyribonucleotide primers, does not require a ...

Burkitt's lymphoma is the most frequent neoplasm of African children, and in endemic areas has an incidence as high as 10 per 100,000 per year, with a peak occurrence between the ages of six and eight years. The African tumor is almost invariably ...

The first reports evaluating the effects of oral contraceptives on offspring revealed no adverse effects; to the contrary, the findings suggested that fetal loss might be decreased.^{1 2 3} Two large studies from England reported slightly smaller rates of ...

One of the privileges accorded the holder of this annual suzerainty is the opportunity to review the diverse discourses selected by his predecessors. The topics have been broad. Oliver Wendell Holmes twitted his heavy-handed peers for their excessive use ...

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There may be as many different therapy programs for bronchospasm as there are physicians treating asthma, bronchitis and emphysema. This variety of programs results from the recent introduction of many new bronchodilator drugs, ...

Physicians generally tolerate the press and other mass media rather badly. They guard their patients' and their own privacy and confidentiality with a zealot-like intensity, even when the interest of the public in the matter may be very high. Usually, ...

Control of cancer by immunologic methods was first suggested by physicians who observed, more than a century ago, that advanced cancer occasionally underwent total regression after acute bacterial infection. Coley presented a substantial study of the ...

Presentation of Case

A 76-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of visual loss.

She was well until 30 years previously, when she experienced the sudden onset of intermittent diplopia. Spectacles with prisms were prescribed, with improvement. ...

The need for an improved classification scheme for leukemias and lymphomas is evident. Recent studies with a battery of technics beyond conventional light microscopy and morphology, and encompassing cytochemical findings, surface markers, enzymic activity ...

Breast cancer will develop in one of every 15 women born in the United States, and by the time the diagnosis is made, 25 to 50 per cent, depending upon the size of the primary tumor, will have axillary-lymph-node metastases.¹ These depressing facts have ...

AT times all of us accept the existing order without raising questions about causes and mechanisms. It is a largely ignored but blatant fact that normal newborn infants have five to ten or more semiliquid bowel movements per day. True, this can't be ...

An unmarried 17-year-old gravida 1, 137 cm tall and weighing 44.5 kg, reported for prenatal care at 17 weeks' gestation and was seen at 14 visits alternately by an obstetrician and a nurse. She had a history of meningitis at the age of two years and ...

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To the Editor: Gangarosa and Merson (N Engl J Med 296:1210, 1977) conclude that "routine serogrouping of Esch. coli in sporadic cases of diarrhea using commercial antiserums...is...useless." They review studies relating Esch. coli of the traditional ...

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There is a sense in which this review will be unfair, for we take Mr. Brody to task for not writing the book that needs to be written about ethical decisions in medicine. As such, it should be emphasized at the outset that within the bounds of the ...

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Pediatrics

The Truly Cured Child: ...

PROGRAM ON ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FOR TECHNOLOGISTS

The University of Florida Division of Cardiology will present a program this fall entitled "Echocardiography for the Technologist." The program will be a regularly recurring didactic and practical training ...