INDIRECT evidence suggests that antibody directed against a liver membrane lipoprotein, in cooperation with cytotoxic lymphocytes, may have an important role in the ongoing liver-cell damage of chronic active hepatitis. The membrane lipoprotein, isolated ...

INCREASED availability of platelets for transfusion has largely eliminated hemorrhage as a factor limiting aggressive chemotherapy for leukemia and other cancers. Despite immunosuppressive and cytotoxic therapy, however, the majority of patients with ...

IN recent years multiagent chemotherapy of patients with cancer has been increasingly successful, and sustained remissions have been achieved. These treatment regimens, in addition to acute toxicity, also have chronic side effects.¹ Potential injury to ...

EPIDEMIOLOGIC evidence^{1 2 3} has linked highdensity-lipoprotein cholesterol with coronary heart disease, the risk of development of the disease being inversely related to the level of this component of high-density lipoprotein. Also, oral-contraceptive use ...

PASSIVE smoking is the breathing of smoke-containing air composed of mainstream smoke exhaled by smokers and of sidestream smoke, which leaves the burning end of the tobacco product during puff intermissions. The amount of smoke produced, the depth of ...

THIS communication concerns a body of objective data regarding the effect of the pass/fail grading system on the selection of medical students for a graduate training program in surgery. The "Turbulent Sixties" had a profound effect on medical education. ...

Ocular Defense Mechanism

THE major natural barriers to surface infection are the tears and conjunctiva in combination with eyelid action. The cornea, except for tight zonula occludens at the epithelial layer, is relatively defenseless but is washed ...

WHENEVER the brain-death concept as a compulsory or alternative method of determining human death has come before the courts in the United States, the United Kingdom or Canada, it has inevitably been all or part of the defendant's appeal of a homicide ...

Presentation of Case

A 27-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a rash.

She was well until six months previously, when the first of several attacks of urinary frequency and dysuria occurred. Ampicillin was administered repeatedly during ...

Necrosis of liver cells, regardless of initiating process, depends ultimately on destruction of the cell plasma membrane. As a result, there has been an increasing emphasis on the role of alterations of cell-surface membranes in hepatocellular disease and ...

That young patients with Hodgkin's or other neoplastic diseases should have to be concerned with the effect of therapy on their future fertility is an indication of the immensity of medical progress in recent years. That progress, however, has its "black ...

Attempts to correlate performance in medical school with the student's subsequent quality as a clinician have been dismally frustrating. In a comprehensive review of such studies, Wingard and Williamson found no definite relation between physicians' ...

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To the Editor: Dr. Utiger recommends antithyroid drugs for initial therapy of most patients with hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease.¹ His statement that "antithyroid drugs are safe" is not entirely correct. Moreover, in the light of the study by Toft ...

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To the Editor: It is frequently implied that the Veterans Administration could reduce its overall costs and at the same time obtain services of better quality for its patients by reducing the amount of services actually provided by the Administration ...

PROGRAMS IN ONCOLOGY

Roswell Park Memorial Institute and the American Cancer Society will present the following programs in the coming months: "General Oncology," July 17-August 25; "New Leads in Cancer Therapeutics," September 8; "Adjuvant Therapy in ...

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