A RECENT report from this laboratory described the isolation of a unique gram-negative, weakly acid-fast bacterium from lung tissue of two renal-transplant recipients with pneumonia.¹ This microorganism was tentatively designated the "Pittsburgh Pneumonia ...

INFECTIOUS complications in patients undergoing renal transplantation and receiving immunosuppressive therapy have been well documented.^{1 2 3 4} Opportunistic pulmonary infections are frequently difficult to diagnose because of the variety of possible ...

CORONARY-ARTERY bypass reduces chest pain and increases exercise capacity in patients with coronary-artery disease.^{1 2 3} If grafts are occluded, these benefits may not occur^{4 5 6}; therefore, maintenance of graft patency is essential.

The reported ...

THE three billion people of the less developed world suffer from a plethora of infectious diseases. Because these infections tend to flourish at the poverty level, they are important indicators of a vast state of collective ill health. The concomitant ...

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RENAL transplantation and dialysis are in wide use for the treatment of chronic renal failure or end-stage renal disease (ESRD). By 1984, more than 55,000 patients in the United States will be on dialysis treatment for ESRD, with over ...

SERUM alkaline phosphatase activity was markedly elevated in a young man without an apparent underlying disorder. The unexpected finding of an elevated alkaline phosphatase level in the patient's father prompted an investigation of other family members.

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ALTHOUGH the National Health Service did not suffer any absolute financial cuts when the new Conservative government embarked on a firm policy of reducing public expenditure, Mr. Patrick Jenkin, the Secretary of State at the Department of Health and ...

Presentation of Case

A 59-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of fever and confusion.

She was well until one month earlier, when an ear infection was treated with an antibiotic. One week before admission she had an upper-respiratory-tract ...

According to mythology Pandora was created by Vulcan at Jupiter's command to punish mankind for Prometheus' theft of fire from the gods. Although the gods had admonished her never to open a box she had been given, Pandora could not contain her curiosity, ...

Ever since the 1930's a high proportion of all cancers of the thyroid have been induced by radiation.¹ It has also been known for many years that the type of cancer that is induced by radiation is papillary, tends to appear in young people and carries ...

What responsibility should the Journal take for the ads that appear in our pages? Should we review our advertising copy just as we do the content of scientific articles?

Some readers evidently think so. A Toronto oncologist writing in this week's ...

APPLICANTS FOR FELLOWSHIP

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Calhoun, Alan James, 2 Edmund Street, Adams 01220 State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975

Fabrizio, Michael Anthony, Jr., 276 South Street, ...

To the Editor: I believe that the Journal is contributing to an increase in iatrogenic illness. I do not refer to the formal papers or editorials, but to contributions in the advertising section that escape critical review. Dr. Relman, please take out ...

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To the Editor: With reference to the letter from Drs. Britt and Peters,¹ I wish to report my experience with the use of metoprolol, a relatively selective beta-1 antagonist, in 22 patients with essential or familial tremor. The mean duration of the ...

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To the Editor: We were intrigued by the report by Gossett et al. in the April 19 issue of a monoclonal immunoblastic sarcoma of donor origin, which developed within three months of the onset of graft-versus-host disease in an allogeneic bone-marrow-...

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To the Editor: The letter to the Editor in the August 9 issue from Dr. Edward L. Petsonk regarding conflicts of interest in drug research is most unfortunate. Although the writer clearly tried not to associate his comments with the paper by Horwitz and ...

SEMINAR ON PHERESIS

The Cancer Center of Hawaii and the University of Hawaii School of Medicine will present a seminar entitled "Pheresis: Current Trends," November 15 and 16 in Honolulu.

For more information write to Dr. Noboru Oishi, Cancer Center of ...

A consensus-development meeting on "Steroid Receptors in Breast Cancer" was held at the National Institutes of Health on June 27–29. The purpose of this meeting, which was attended by about 400 investigators from the United States and nine foreign ...