INFECTIOUS agents that parasitize erythrocytes are rarely acquired by human beings in the continental United States. Only the protozoa causing babesiasis and malaria are accepted as human red-cell pathogens.^{1 , 2} In this report we describe an illness in ...

GLUTATHIONE, together with glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase, plays an important part in regulating the ability of cells to withstand exposure to oxidative drugs and infections.¹ The glutathione peroxidase-glutathione reductase system ...

THE value of pertussis vaccine has been questioned recently, particularly in the United -ingdom.^{1 2 3} The decreasing incidence of pertussis, and concerns about the degree of efficacy of the vaccine and about vaccine-associated complications, have led to ...

ALCOHOLISM and alcohol-related illness are among the major medical and public-health problems in contemporary society. The development of alcoholism, like that of most diseases, reflects a complex interaction between the socioenvironmental context, the ...

SARCOIDOSIS is a systemic disease that involves several organ systems and is characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas in each affected organ. Involvement of the lung or mediastinal lymph nodes is readily recognized by chest roentgenography,...

THE management of patients with malignant lymphomas has undergone considerable change during the past 10 years. As a result of advances in diagnostic and therapeutic methods, treatment results have dramatically improved for patients with Hodgkin's ...

Presentation of Case

A nine-year-old black girl was admitted to the hospital because of dyspnea.

She was well until nine months earlier, when she began to have episodes of unconsciousness without seizure activity. During one attack she struck her occiput ...

Bacterial-type organisms that adhere to erythrocytes and produce severe diseases of economic importance in domestic and wild animals have been recognized since the turn of the century.^{1 2 3} In contrast, physicians in general have not encountered ...

When is a peptide not a peptide? The ingenuity of the organic chemist is reflected in analogues with less and less resemblance to their parent molecules. Some are barely even recognizable as peptides; one needs a major in chemistry and a good road map to ...

DEATHS

Kevorkian — Albert Yervant Kevorkian, M.D., of West Newton, died on March 23, 1978. He was in his 74th year.

Dr. Kevorkian received his degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1934. He served in the Army Medical Corps during World War II. He ...

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Professor Markwardt has selected 17 distinguished workers in the field of hemostasis to compile this work on fibrinolysis. The book is timely since many advances in the basic understanding of the plasminogen-plasmin system and its inhibitors have been ...

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This book is the first of two volumes devoted to evaluation of current methods for immunodiagnosis of cancer, and it explores the present status of the sensitive technics for detection of antigens associated with a particular tumor. The text represents ...

There is a growing realization that progressive impairment of intellect and memory in older people, often associated with deteriorating behavior and emotional responses, is a major health problem. In most cases of late-life dementia, the changes can be ...

Guidebooks, like wines, come in several varieties: some are plain and insipid, lacking body or bouquet, leaving the palate unsatisfied; others are more substantial but still unexciting. And occasionally one comes across a fine guidebook that whets the ...

THE LAURENCE ELLIS LECTURE

Dr. Ernest William Hancock of Stanford University Medical Center will deliver the 15th Laurence B. Ellis Lecture entitled "Clinical Hemodynamics in Pericardial Disease." The lecture, sponsored by Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard ...

"During our military hospital visits, we interviewed 47 physicians and hospital administrative officials to find out why physicians were leaving the military, what practices they resent, and what conditions create inefficiencies and waste their time."

The ...