CATHETERIZATION of the umbilical artery is part of the routine care of high-risk newborn infants in most nursery centers. Potentially serious complications accompany the use of these catheters.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9} Consensus does not exist regarding the ...

IN 1967 Northway et al. described the development of chronic lung disease in premature neonates who were treated with mechanical ventilation and elevated concentrations of inspired oxygen for severe respiratory-distress syndrome. They designated the ...

URINARY-tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infections, constituting as much as 40 per cent of such infections.^{1 , 2} The majority are associated with indwelling urethral catheterization or other types of urinary instrumentation.^{2 , 3} ...

WHEN Congress enacted Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act of 1965 (Medicare and Medicaid, respectively) concern was expressed that these programs might result in overutilization of health-care services, thereby increasing health-care costs. To ...

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INVESTIGATORS concerned with the biologic functions of cell-secreted proteins such as hormones, immunoglobulins, enzymes and plasma proteins have become increasingly interested in the details of protein biosynthesis to learn how the ...

LIPID droplets that may be seen in the urine, particularly from patients with glomerular disease and heavy proteinuria, can act as liquid crystals and show a distinctive form on polarizing microscopy that for years has been referred to as a Maltese cross —...

EVIDENCE is accumulating that the tripeptide glutathione (γ-glutamyl-cysteinyL-glycine) participates in a variety of fundamental processes such as intracellular redox reactions, active transport of amino acids and protection against free radicals ...

WE recently reported 1000 cases of disputed paternity in which the HLA typing test proved to be substantially more powerful than the previously used red-cell tests.¹ The remarkable efficacy of HLA typing in paternity determinations is attributable to the ...

Presentation of Case

A 53-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of biliary colic.

There was a history of intermittent jaundice since childhood. At 29 years of age the conjugated bilirubin was 3 mg, the total bilirubin 5.7 mg, the cholesterol ...

In 1967, examples of acute, subacute and chronic pulmonary disease were described in a series of 32 newborn infants with severe respiratory-distress syndrome, treated for 24 hours or more with warm humidified, 80 to 100 per cent oxygen via an intermittent ...

When patterns of medical care are analyzed, there are always so many things happening at once — and usually so many different ways of interpreting the same data — that we are well advised to step carefully when asked to infer that something is indubitably ...

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To the Editor: Dr. Petersdorf may be, for all I know, the greatest feminist in academic medicine, but his comments regarding women in particular in the "Academic Mating Game" (issue of June 8) are a great disservice to the cause of equity for women in ...

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Eight years ago, responding to growing alarm over a feared American population crisis, Congress established a National Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. That Commission, in turn, charged a research group of the Institute of Society, ...

During the past decade (apparently stimulated by the popularity of national running competitions for men over 40 years of age — the Masters Track & Field program) there has been an extraordinary development of the sport of running or jogging in this ...

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GRAND ROUNDS OF THE VA HOSPITAL

The Medical Grand Rounds of the Veterans Administration Hospital of East Orange will be held on Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m.: "Diagnostic Technics in Pulmonary Disease," September 20; "Recent Developments in Respiratory Control,...