THE effectiveness of therapy for childhood lymphocytic leukemia is gauged ultimately by the proportion of patients who continue in complete remission after all treatment is stopped. Over the past decade, the capability of combination chemotherapy and ...

PRIMARY biliary cirrhosis is a progressive fatal disease of unknown cause. Patients have clinical and serologic evidence of an altered immune state,^{1 , 2} and immune-complex activation of the complement system may play an important part in the destruction ...

DOXORUBICIN hydrochloride (adriamycin), an anthracycline antibiotic, is highly efficacious in the treatment of numerous cancers¹; however, its efficacy is partly dependent upon high cumulative dosages. The clinical application of long-term doxorubicin ...

My Embryonal Carcinoma

IN the spring of 1974 I discovered a small lump in my scrotum next to my right testicle. I thought it was probably just an infection and waited for it to go away. It was almost three months before I saw a urologist, who told me that ...

CIS-DIAMMINEDICHLOROPLATINUM (DDP), a heavy metal co-ordination compound with unique antitumor properties, is the first of this type of compound to undergo extensive clinical testing. It has exhibited noteworthy activity in a broad range of solid tumors ...

SINCE the development of specific assays for prolactin^{1 , 2} it has been possible to demonstrate that a large proportion of pituitary tumors secrete prolactin.³ Until the advent of bromocriptine, operation and irradiation had been used as the primary ...

HUMAN milk has been increasingly recommended as an optimal food source for infants. It offers immunologic protection against infection, encourages maternal-infant bonding and may protect the premature infant against necrotizing enterocolitis.^{1 , 2} ...

OPTIMAL management of patients with rheumatic heart disease or a previous bout of acute rheumatic fever includes the administration of prophylactic antibiotics to prevent pharyngeal infection with Group A streptococci.^{1 , 2} Several studies have shown that ...

Presentation of Case

A 60-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of respiratory failure.

She was well until 10 days earlier, when symptoms of a respiratory-tract infection developed several days after exposure to epiglottitis and tracheitis ...

Doxorubicin, or adriamycin, is one of the most effective chemotherapeutic agents for cancer. It has an established role in the treatment of the acute leukemias and the lymphomas. In contrast to most other drugs, it has substantial activity in solid tumors ...

Last May, in Denver, the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA) held its first annual session. In December, at its winter scientific meeting in Las Vegas, the American Medical Association sponsored a symposium on "Holistic Medicine and Health Care." ...

The secretion of prolactin is tonically inhibited by the hypothalamus, an effect mediated by the release of a prolactin inhibitory factor into the pituitary blood supply.¹ Much newly acquired evidence points to dopamine as the principal inhibitory ...

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MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PATHOLOGY

The Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Pathology, United States-Canadian Division, will be held in San Francisco, March 3–9.

Further information may be obtained from Dr. Leland D. Stoddard, ...

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