THE survival of patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia correlates closely with the duration of first complete remission.¹ When patients have evidence of reappearance of myeloblasts in the marrow, the current practice is to attempt to reinduce remission ...

LYME arthritis is an inflammatory disorder, typically episodic and confined to few joints or migratory, that may also involve the skin, nervous system, or heart.^{1 2 3} In some patients, knee involvement has become chronic and, as in rheumatoid arthritis, ...

THERE is wide acceptance of the hypothesis that, other things being equal, the quality of care improves with the experience of those providing it. If true, surgical mortality rates should be lower in hospitals performing higher volumes of a given ...

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THIS review is warranted by the recent progress in understanding and treating testicular cancer. For example, it has been established that nearly all these cancers originate in the germ cells. Another important advance has been the ...

EVER since the late 1950's, when the oral thiazide congeners were introduced clinically, diuretic therapy has been the mainstay in the treatment of hypertension. Indeed, this class of diuretic agents has been singled out by the Joint National Committee on ...

ANTIBODIES to nuclear antigens develop in patients who have been treated with procainamide. The prevalence of antinuclear antibodies ranges from 50 to 80 per cent^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} and increases with the duration of therapy. A syndrome like systemic lupus ...

IN an airplane passenger who had episodes of delayed vertigo after flight, the probable pathologic course leading to a perilymph fistula in the inner ear is described. Operation on the fistula allowed her to resume flying without such episodes.

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Presentation of Case

A 49-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of pulmonary infiltrates.

Nineteen years previously a spontaneous pneumothorax occurred, and resection of the left upper lobe was performed because of a bleb. He was well ...

In this issue of the Journal, Luft, Bunker, and Enthoven discuss some intriguing data obtained from the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities. For certain operations, such as open-heart surgery, mortality tends to vary inversely with the ...

IT has been well observed that by solving one problem one usually creates the next. Coronary arteriography is a current example of the solution-turned-problem, since the procedure by its character slips through the net of controls designed by the medical ...

DEATHS

Abrams — Archie Adam Abrams, M.D., of Brookline, died on March 22. He was in his 74th year.

Dr. Abrams received his degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1931. He served as medical director of Crittenton Hastings House ...

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To the Editor: Recent studies have suggested that a gene for susceptibility to the insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus commonly seen in children is closely linked to the genes for HLA on chromosome 6.¹ Studies of HLA in families with two or more affected ...

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To the Editor: This letter is written out of courtesy to Dr. Linus Pauling, who has requested that we clarify an introductory statement in our article pertaining to vitamin C therapy for advanced cancer.¹

In the 1976 report covering their nonrandomized ...

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Little time is devoted to teaching ophthalmology in most medical schools. A readable introductory textbook is important, then, to provide a background for understanding the ocular manifestations of disease. The average medical student has neither the time ...

Modern clinical medicine has generally dealt with the study of human behavior in a certain condescending manner: it has denied officially that the relation counted for much (or even existed), but has gained considerable succor from it. This book attempts ...

This book is one of several that evaluate the contributions of behavior and environment to the development and exacerbation of somatic disease. Reflective of growing experimental literatures in medicine, psychology, and psychiatry, this collection of ...

The Ellis Fischel Cancer Hospital of Columbia, Missouri, has made available, through the authors of this book, a discussion of many patients with breast cancer. These same authors, in their first edition, summarized the results of their treatment and the ...

SEMINARS IN MEDICINE OF THE BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL

Seminars in Medicine of the Beth Israel Hospital will be held in the George Sherman Auditorium, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, on the following Tuesdays at 4 p.m.

COURSE IN PATHOLOGY

The University of Miami ...

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