CHROMOSOME-banding studies on patients with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia have been reported with increasing frequency since we described the nonrandom pattern of chromosomal abnormalities in 50 patients with the disorder.^{1 , 2} We noted an association of ...

THE mapping of cancer mortality in the United States according to county, 1950–69, revealed an area along the southeast Atlantic coast where the rates for lung cancer were exceptionally high among white men.^{1 , 2} To identify reasons for the elevated ...

A RECENT symposium¹ held under the auspices of the American Thoracic Society evaluated the scientific basis of respiratory therapy, including chest physiotherapy and intermittent positive-pressure breathing. These therapies, now extensively used in ...

IN the preface to the Doctor's Dilemma, George Bernard Shaw says:

Make up your mind how many doctors the community needs to keep it well. Do not register more or less than this number; and let registration constitute the doctor a civil servant with a ...

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General Aspects of the Synthesis of Secretory Proteins

A matter of great interest has been the physiologic role of biosynthetic precursors in the pathway of the formation of parathyroid hormone and also the overall effects of ...

Presentation of Case

A 42-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of pulmonary infiltrates.

He was well until two months previously, when a tender swelling developed abruptly in the left side of the neck. It grew rapidly and was incised and ...

Decades ago it was established that risk of lung cancer was causatively associated not only with the independent use of tobacco products but also with the possible synergistic effect of cigarette smoking and exposure to certain industrial factors. The ...

Left pretty much to itself over the past few decades, medical practice in this country has become progressively more specialized. Just before World War II, some three quarters of the aggregate practice time of physicians in the United States was devoted ...

The field of internal medicine developed mainly as a special area of expertise to serve patients with complex diagnostic problems, usually referred by general practitioners who needed consultative assistance with such patients. From such simple beginnings,...

Views of primary-care education are somewhat analogous to the old fable about three blind men and an elephant. Each blind man, when asked, gave a very different description of the elephant — an accurate description reflecting his area of contact. In this ...

THE COMMITTEE ON THE IMPAIRED PHYSICIAN

After extensive review with the Committee on Mental Health, the Massachusetts Medical Society announces the formation of the Committee on the Impaired Physician. The primary purpose of the Committee will be to ...

To the Editor: In 1974 Harker and his associates¹ reported that four patients with homocystinemia due to cystathionine synthase deficiency manifested a shortened platelet survival in vivo and that this platelet survival could be increased to normal by ...

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To the Editor: From a mountain of death-certificate data, Dr. Erickson, in the May 18 issue of the Journal, has produced a mouse of dubious value concerning the health risks of fluoridation. Underlying his statistical machinations are several ...

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Whether or not one agrees with Sissela Bok in her opinions about one of mankind's most prevalent self-indulgences — malevolent, exculpatory, white or necessary — the reader will appreciate that hers is a book written to communicate ideas, not to display ...

Richard Rettig, a social scientist with the Rand Corporation, has carefully chronicled many of the events leading to the creation and final passage of the "National Cancer Act of 1971." Although this book is focused quite sharply on cancer and cancer ...

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Few disorders are potentially more disabling than asthma. Though it affects any age group, its infrequent mortality occurs most often during adolescence. Clark and Godfrey have edited a lucidly written monograph devoted to the pathogenesis and therapy of ...

Although most people rest content to develop skills in one aspect of learning, some successfully cultivate several fields of scholarship. Such a person was Sir John Richardson, as the author shows in his full-length biography of this interesting but ...

INTERNATIONAL CANCER CONGRESS IN ARGENTINA

An International Cancer Congress will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from October 5 to 11.

In view of the existence of a pattern of human-rights violations affecting scientists in Argentina, an international ...