ALTHOUGH most children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome initially lose proteinuria with corticosteroid therapy, approximately 85 per cent of responders have subsequent relapses.^{1 , 2} Children who require continuous steroid treatment because of frequent ...

MALIGNANT lymphoid cells usually have the characteristic surface markers and sometimes also the functional properties of the corresponding nonmalignant cells.^{1 2 3} Thus, neoplastic T cells often have a receptor for sheep red cells (E-rosette receptor) or ...

SPECIALIZED areas in which medical technology and personnel are concentrated for the care of critically ill patients exist in virtually every major hospital.¹ With its origins in the postoperative recovery room and its rapid diffusion spurred by the ...

THE availability of continuous electrocardiographic monitoring, electrical defibrillation, and other promising advances in the care of patients with myocardial infarction prompted the introduction of coronary-care units (CCU) in the early 1960's.^{1 , 2} The ...

Interferon

IN 1957, Isaacs and Lindenmann described the in vitro production of a soluble antiviral mediator, interferon, by virus–infected cells.⁵⁷ Since then, much has been learned concerning the properties and actions of what is now recognized to be a ...

AMONG the major reforms in recent years in the field of medical malpractice has been the establishment of interprofessional screening panels designed to review and eliminate frivolous and unsupportable claims. Before the insurance crisis of 1975, only a ...

FOR many years there has been debate about the role of London's 12 undergraduate medical schools and their associated teaching hospitals. They all have long and distinguished histories, and the names of many are known around the world. St. Bartholomew's ...

Presentation of Case

A 12-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain.

She was well until the age of five years, when she began to have episodes of abdominal pain and vomiting that occurred two or three times a year and subsided ...

The term minimal-change glomerulopathy applies to the renal histology noted in the majority of children with the idiopathic nephrotic syndrome. Almost no change in glomerular morphology is found, but there is a subtle ultrastructural alteration in the ...

During the past decade, the classification of lymphoid tumors has undergone drastic revision. This change was heralded in the 1960's by the discovery that lymphocytes could be divided into thymus-derived (T) and bursa-derived or bone-marrow-derived (B) ...

The intensive-care unit originated as a postoperative recovery room. Then, in the early 1960's, it rapidly gained favor on medical services when electro-cardiographic monitoring of patients with acute coronary-artery disease came into vogue and relatively ...

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To the Editor: The recent letter by Dr. John Hoffer¹ raised the question of who, if anyone, should be treated after contact with a patient with rabies. The only well-documented cases of human-to-human transmission of rabies have occurred by corneal ...

To the Editor: Twenty-two years ago in this column, Dr. E. C. Heyde noted the association of calcific aortic stenosis and gastrointestinal bleeding in elderly patients.¹ Confirmation of the association followed in this Journal and others.^{2 3 4 5} Boss and ...

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To the Editor: Lymphoblastic lymphoma is a subtype of diffuse, poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma that characteristically occurs in older children and adolescents. Its frequent mode of presentation is with mediastinal adenopathy sometimes ...

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To the Editor: An article in the Journal by Moss and his associates reported that in one program surgery residents from medical schools that give grades performed better than residents from medical schools that use the "pass/fail" system, and it ...

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This volume is the sixth in the expanding series Comprehensive Immunology, and it suffers from the modern-day schism between advances in immunology and classic definitions of atopic or allergic disorders. Thus, although the book's title refers to allergic ...

Prepared by a technical group that Congress established to develop policy reviews independent of those available through the health agencies of the executive branch, this report documents the increasing diffidence of private vaccine manufacturers at a ...

Even with the glut of books recently marketed in the rapidly expanding field of pulmonary medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders is a welcome addition. The book is well written and readable, and its quality is uniformly high despite contributions from ...

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Pharmacology

The Psychogenic Biochemical Aspects of Cancer. By Harold E. Simmons. 316 pp. Sacramento, California, Psychogenic Disease Publishing Company, 1979. $9.95.

Psychopharmacology of Affective Disorders. (A British Association for Psychopharmacology ...

NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY OF PATHOLOGISTS

The Society will hold its spring meeting on May 16 and 17 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.

Contact Dr. G. Richard Dickersin, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114.

ADMINISTRATIVE ...

"What's going on in medicine is really remarkable," said a vice president of one of the country's biggest brokerage houses — and he wasn't speaking of therapeutics.

In charge of monitoring health care for his firm, he was among several of Wall Street's ...