ACUTE gastrointestinal ulceration in critically ill patients usually occurs in association with respiratory failure, sepsis, peritonitis, operation, burns, trauma, renal failure and hypotension.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8} The incidence of endoscopically verified ...

RECENTLY, we reported a hereditary bleeding diathesis characterized by a small but appreciable prolongation of the activated partial thromboplastin time.¹ The patients had normal levels of all the reported clotting factors, including high-molecular-weight ...

CONGENITAL hypoplastic (Diamond-Blackfan) anemia, a rare disorder of childhood characterized by aregenerative anemia, is usually evident before the age of two years. The characteristics of the clinical disorder, its differential diagnosis and treatment ...

RECENT studies suggest that granulocyte transfusions complement appropriate antibiotic treatment of gram-negative septicemia associated with granulocytopenia and offer a survival advantage to infected, persistently granulocytopenic patients.^{1 , 2} There ...

PRIMARY health care is accessible, comprehensive, co-ordinated and continual care delivered by accountable providers of personal health services. It is usually associated with the care of the "whole person" rather than a particular illness. It is ...

Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine or strong drink....(Judges 13:7)

THE potential teratogenic effects of alcohol have been suspected for centuries, but it was not until the work of Lemoine in 1968¹ and the independent ...

HERPES simplex virus has been found to be present in a latent form in the trigeminal and spinal ganglions of animals^{1 , 2} and human beings.^{3 , 4} In our previous study,⁵ we recovered herpes simplex virus Type I from trigeminal ganglions of 12 out of 20 ...

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Presentation of Case

A four-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of circulatory collapse.

He was well until seven days earlier, when fever, sore throat, lethargy and anorexia developed, and his mother noticed a rash. He was taken to another ...

Some 50 years of increasingly intense genetic study had not prepared molecular biologists for the recent and entirely unexpected discovery that genes in higher organisms are encoded in discontinuous bits and pieces of chromosomal DNA.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8} These ...

Cimetidine came on the scene just after the development of excellent endoscopic methods for visualizing duodenal ulcers. These better endoscopes, together with the need for intensive clinical studies before cimetidine could be released, have resulted in ...

Schachter¹ recently reviewed the impressive progress that has been made in understanding of chlamydial infections, since Halberstaedter and von Prowazeck demonstrated the characteristic cytoplasmic inclusions in conjunctival scrapings from patients with ...

To the Editor: The definition of peritoneal dialysis as a "less esthetic, more time-consuming means of solute and water extraction" that Friedman and his colleagues offer in their excellent paper in the February 16 issue of the Journal reflects some of ...

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To the Editor: In July, 1976, the dramatic development of a febrile illness with respiratory symptoms and a 16 per cent mortality in members of an American Legion Convention in Philadelphia and the subsequent isolation by the Center for Disease Control ...

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To the Editor: All the diet-heart-disease correspondents in the January 12 issue of the Journal but Dr. Mann agree that coronary-heart-disease death rates have at last started to decline for all ages less than 75 in the United States. It would be ...

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To the Editor: I should like to answer the letter by Roccatagliata and Albano,¹ in which they question whether giving isoniazid together with pyridoxine could elevate the content of gamma-aminobutyric acid in human brain, and suggest that some other ...

To the Editor: In the February 23 issue of the Journal Dr. DeVeaugh-Geiss reported exacerbation of tardive dyskinesia by phenytoin. The author's statement that movement disorders induced by neuroleptics and phenytoin resemble one another and "probably ...

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This beautifully illustrated book describes the preparation, examination and interpretation of urinary cytology for the detection of malignant tumors of the urinary tract. The preface states that it represents an effort to "popularize urinary cytology" to ...

This textbook begins with an introductory chapter by Dr. Reed Nesbit that presents an extremely interesting review of the development of transurethral methods for relief of bladder-neck obstruction and the development of the instrumentation necessary for ...

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Like almost every field of medicine, the body of knowledge within orthopedics has become almost too vast to be encompassed within one textbook. Although it is impossible for a single author to have sufficient breadth to cover all the areas, Dr. Samuel ...

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This latest edition in the Saunders series of Monographs in Clinical Radiology successfully melds the clinical interests of two distinguished gastrointestinal radiologists into the most definitive single treatise on biliary radiology published to date. ...

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PROGRAMS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

The University of Minnesota will present the following programs in continuing medical education: "Practical Dermatology in Primary Care," May 18–20; "Cardiovascular Diseases and Nutrition," June 1 and 2; "Clinical ...