THE increasing rarity of nutritional-deficiency disease may create problems in medical diagnosis and management for physicians in developed countries. Vegan diets — those from which animal proteins are strictly excluded — have become increasingly popular. ...

ALTHOUGH widely used and accepted in obstetric practice as a means for the timely detection of fetal distress during labor, electronic fetal monitoring has only recently been subjected to critical evaluation for purposes of assessing its effect on ...

CONSIDERABLE evidence now exists to support the concept that cellular immunologic responses participate in provoking the synovial inflammation characteristic of rheumatoid arthritis.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} However, antigens that might induce cellular sensitivity ...

THE hospital autopsy rate (number of autopsies performed in a hospital divided by the number of hospital deaths) in the United States and in other Western countries continues to decline.^{1 2 3 4} This fall is due both to a decrease in the absolute number of ...

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BRAIN death is widely accepted as a criterion of death in medical, legal and public opinion today. There seems to be a general medical understanding that it is to be used to describe a state of irreversible destruction of virtually ...

POSTSPLENECTOMY septicemia is a well established late complication of splenectomy.¹ Staging laparotomy with splenectomy for Hodgkin's disease has been an accepted practice for several years, and the risk of postsplenectomy sepsis for these patients is ...

Presentation of Case

A 31-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of respiratory failure.

He was well until three weeks previously, when he began to have abdominal pain. One week later fever, vomiting and a cough productive of blood-streaked, ...

Although human milk is commonly believed to be a complete and perfect food for infants, deficiencies of vitamin K, vitamin D and iron may develop in normal, full-term infants breast-fed by apparently healthy women consuming conventional diets. Other ...

The study by Neutra et al. in this issue of the Journal continues a debate that has been ongoing in this decade. It concerns the value of electronic fetal monitoring in labor. The issue was recently the subject of hearings before a Senate subcommittee.

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At an Amnesty International medical seminar in Athens, Greece, March 10 and 11, 1978, 130 physicians, dentists, nurses, medical social workers and lawyers heard 27 short reports covering the following topics: careful medical and psychologic examinations ...

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To the Editor: A small number of Ph¹+ acute myeloblastic leukemias and an even smaller number of acute lymphoblastic leukemias have been described.¹ The Ph¹ in these cases is indistinguishable from that occurring in chronic myelocytic leukemia, in which, ...

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To the Editor: The Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital, in the April 20 issue of the Journal, gave insufficient consideration to the possible dental origin of the left-sided peritonsillar and parapharyngeal-space infection that culminated ...

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PROGRAM ON MEDICAL-PURCHASING NEEDS

The Insurance and Bank Purchasing Management Association of New England will present a program about medical purchasing needs, September 13–15 at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut.

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