REASONS for hypoventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease remain unclear. Although mechanical limitation of lung function must make a substantial contribution, the correlation between lung function and ventilation is poor,¹ ...

DIABETES mellitus and hyperlipoproteinemia are commonly associated disorders in man, but seldom achieve satisfactory control with current therapy. Pharmacologic intervention traditionally has relied on insulin administration alone or on the combined use ...

PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS colitis has been recognized since the 1880's as a severe gastrointestinal lesion associated with a variety of conditions.¹ In recent years, the majority of cases have been ascribed to antimicrobial treatment. Clindamycin and lincomycin ...

TEN years ago, with the introduction of national medical insurance to supplement a hospital insurance plan, Canada formally completed the process of putting together a national health-insurance program, whose early evolution is well documented in several ...

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Neonatal Chlamydial Infections

Inclusion conjunctivitis of the newborn, also known as inclusion blennorrhea, is a chlamydial infection acquired by the neonate during passage through the birth canal. The incubation period is usually ...

INFECTION with Toxoplasma gondii exists in chronic asymptomatic form in approximately 50 per cent of the population in the United States. T. gondii is clinically important in the adult for three major reasons: it may cause lymphadenopathy; as an ...

RECURRENT rhabdomyolysis is a feature of conditions in which skeletal-muscle metabolism of carbohydrates is defective, as in deficiency of muscle phosphorylase^{1 , 2} and phosphofructokinase.³ In addition, two patients have been described in whom recurrent ...

Presentation of Case

A two-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent vomiting.

The child was born of the second pregnancy of a 23-year-old woman at 42 weeks of gestation. The pregnancy was uneventful; no medicines were taken. The ...

The accumulation of lactate in the blood has long been recognized as a normal response to vigorous exercise and as a manifestation of acute hypoxia secondary to shock or asphyxia. However, it was not until 1961 that Huckabee called attention to the ...

Mueller, a Canadian surgeon, describes Ontario's version of national health insurance in this week's issue of the Journal (p. 535). Though his subject is Canadian, the message is evidently designed for United States physicians. Although a number of ...

The Cancer Control Program, which was introduced with the National Cancer Act of 1971, was designed to facilitate the transfer of cancer-care technology out of the research and teaching centers into broader community or regional application. The goal of ...

Smoking and alcohol abuse are two chronic problems whose health consequences have enormous economic implications. Berry has estimated the economic consequences of alcohol abuse elsewhere,^{1 , 2} and we have recently done a similar analysis of smoking.³ In ...

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To the Editor: Dr. David Rutstein and his colleagues of the Working Group on Preventable and Manageable Diseases have suggested that by monitoring the occurrence of specific undesirable health outcomes we can measure the degree to which a society's ...

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Bio and Physical Chemistry

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COURSES FROM MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

The Page and William Black Post-Graduate School of Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine will present the following programs in the coming months: "Sexual Disorders in Medical Practice," April 1; "The ...

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