SINCE 1933, when Hamman and Rich described an acute form of the interstitial lung diseases,¹ a great deal about their pathophysiology and clinical course has been learned. However, although an antecedent occupational exposure or systemic illness is ...

PORPHYRIA cutanea tarda, although generally classified as an acquired disorder of porphyrin metabolism, has long been suspected of being an inheritable disease. Ever since Waldenström,¹ in 1937, proposed the name of porphyria cutanea tarda, and Watson et ...

TERBUTALINE is a new synthetic sympathomimetic agent that has recently been introduced into the United States for oral and subcutaneous use in the treatment of reversible airflow obstruction. In isolated tissue and whole-animal studies, terbutaline has ...

WHEN the Social Security Administration assumed responsibility for payment of 80 per cent of the costs of treating end-stage uremia by hemodialysis or renal transplantation (or both) it was anticipated that as much as half a billion health-care dollars ...

WITH the passage of Public Law 92–603 (Section 2991), the Social Security Amendments of 1972, Medicare coverage was extended to more than 90 per cent of all patients with end-stage renal disease. This disease was regarded as one that could swiftly exhaust ...

ONCHOCERCIASIS, a filarial infection transmitted by black flies, has taken its toll of countless generations of Africans. Today, it afflicts 40 million and has blinded between one-quarter and one-half million persons. The regional prevalence and severity ...

SOCIAL psychologists often confuse complex issues by introducing another layer of jargon into a discussion that is already difficult to understand. However, the term "cognitive dissonance" provides an intriguing explanation for some of the irrational ...

Presentation of Case

A 56-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of the nephrotic syndrome.

She was well until 10 years earlier, when a respiratory-tract infection developed. The cold agglutinins were positive in a titer of 1:16. One year ...

Eberle, a Philadelphia physician, in 1830, defined asthma¹ as a "paroxysmal affection of the respiratory organs, characterized by a great difficulty of breathing, tightness across the breast, and a sense of impending suffocation, without fever or local ...

Two Special Articles in this issue focus on the federal program for the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) — a subject that exemplifies almost all the kinds of problems we will have to solve if we are ever successfully to provide comprehensive ...

With the advent of sophisticated biostatistical methods, clinical trials have acquired scientific respectability during the past two decades. Public concern about the costs and benefits of medical care, in addition to conventional scientific scepticism, ...

Deaths

Crocker — Oscar Crocker, M.D., of Pepperell, died on May 1. He was in his 68th year.

Dr. Crocker received his degree from Middlesex University School of Medicine in 1932. He served with the Army Medical Corps during World War II. He formerly served ...

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To the Editor: We were interested in the observation made by Mahoney et al. (N Engl J Med 297:968–973, 1977) of visible hemolysis in three samples of blood obtained from a fetus with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, and their suggestion that the hemolysis ...

To the Editor: A case presented in the weekly clinicopathological exercises (N Engl J Med 297:773–780, 1977) is a clear form of parenchymal cysticercosis. In Mexico cysticercosis abounds in neurologic clinics,¹ and the clinical picture enables the staff ...

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Neurology and Neurosurgery

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THE BERSON-YALOW AWARD

In recognition of the contributions of Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow, Nobel Laureate, and the late Dr. Solomon A. Berson to the uses of radionuclides in medicine and biology, the Society of Nuclear Medicine announces the availability of the ...