GUERRERO¹ has reported that there may be a variation in the proportion of male babies conceived at different times during the menstrual cycle. A high proportion of male babies was observed in infants conceived several days before ovulation (as measured by ...

RECURRENT abdominal pain usually indicates the presence of disease in otherwise healthy children. This paradox commonly leads the physician to search for underlying disease. Although about 10 per cent of children will have unexplained episodes of ...

AS a result of the Shanghai Communique of 1972 and the efforts of the United States and China to form closer relations, a number of medical groups have visited China.¹ These groups have examined selected facets of the public-health and medical-care system ...

RECENT progress in the understanding of purine metabolism and uric acid disposition suggests a need to revise the traditional classification of hyperuricemia and gout. A rational classification based on uric acid production would provide the foundations ...

PRIMARY brain tumors account for slightly less than 10 per cent of nontraumatic neurologic diseases, and for the same proportion of deaths from all neoplastic disease. Their effect is relatively greater in pediatric practice, since brain tumors constitute ...

THE growth of cancer in man leads to destruction of tissues and alterations of functions. The consequences of this process, culminating in overt cachexia and death, are so varied that cancer has replaced syphilis as the great imitator.¹

Many of the ...

THE right of every citizen to be provided with primary medical care through his or her own personal general practitioner is often considered to be the greatest benefit that the National Health Service (NHS) has conferred. But of course the right to have a ...

Presentation of Case

An 81-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of dyspnea and weakness.

He was well and active until eight years previously, when left iliofemoral thrombophlebitis developed and was treated with warfarin. Two years before ...

A desire to control the sex of offspring has intrigued aspiring parents since antiquity. Aristotle is said to have rejected the contention of Empedocles that timing of intercourse affected sex ratio.¹ In more recent times, many methods of influencing sex ...

For at least half a century, thoughtful observers of health care have been reminding us that "The organization of medicine is not a thing apart which can be subjected to study in isolation. It is an aspect of culture whose arrangements are inseparable ...

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To the Editor: The effect of total parenteral nutrition on pancreatic secretion is of paramount importance to those treating inflammatory diseases of the pancreas. Do the benefits of total parenteral nutrition for patients with pancreatitis derive from ...

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The classic approach to controlling serious viral infections has been immunization, ever since Jenner showed about 200 years ago that inoculation of vaccinia virus provided protection against smallpox. During the 1950's and 1960's, several highly ...

Alex Comfort is a leader in the diverse field of human sexuality, an excellent writer for both the general public and the medical profession and a bold thinker prepared to present, accept and defend controversial ideas that he finds sound and useful. Most ...

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To a nobleman who shunned him when he was poor and unknown, but who courted him in his fame, Samuel Johnson wrote: "Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, ...