THE leukemogenic effect of radiation on human beings has been recognized since March¹ reported in 1944 that leukemia was 10 times more commonly recorded as a cause of death in radiologists than in other physicians. Subsequent studies have confirmed this ...

NEPHROTOXICITY and ototoxicity are major factors limiting the clinical utility of aminoglycoside antibiotics. In laboratory animals, tobramycin is less nephrotoxic and less ototoxic than gentamicin.¹-⁶ Clinical studies have also suggested that tobramycin ...

WHEN two different approaches to managing a patient appear to have the same potential value, the decision faced by the physician is often described as a "toss-up." This concept of indifference between strategies is familiar to all experienced clinicians ...

THERAPEUTIC angiography is the field of radiology that employs methods that were formerly used for diagnosis but have been improved or modified to serve as therapeutic measures. For example, the angiographic catheter used to confirm the diagnosis of a ...

ALTHOUGH foods are common causes of anaphylaxis,¹ the responsible allergens, with the exception of the one from codfish muscle,²,³ remain uncharacterized. Soybean products are recognized causes¹ and are commonly encountered, often in an unrecognizable ...

STUDIES in laboratory animals have demonstrated that a diet low in calcium increases lead retention and that there are associated biochemical and morphologic manifestations of enhanced lead toxicity.¹,² This increased toxicity has been attributed to an ...

CASE 19-1980

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 52-year-old mentally retarded man was admitted to the hospital because of chest pain.

Six years before admission a diagnosis of thrombophlebitis was made, and warfarin was begun. Two years before entry ...

THE era of the radiologist as a "shadow gazer" is clearly at an end. Major advances in methods of imaging have made the number of diagnostic studies available in a hospital department of radiology so large and varied that it is no wonder that referring ...

THE subject of food allergy is usually referred to as confusing and controversial. Confusion among professionals and the public can be traced in part to lack of a rational integration of existing knowledge with basic concepts that could aid in the care of ...

There is no time of life, and there are few diseases, in which such massive shifts in calcium occur so regularly as during pregnancy. Fetal bone formation demands that 25 to 30 g of calcium be deposited in the fetal skeleton, almost all of it during the ...

DEATHS

Daikh — Anwar Fathalla Daikh, M.D., of Duxbury, died on August 28. He was in his 58th year.

Dr. Daikh received his degree from Baghdad University Medical School in 1947. He was a member of the American Society of Anes thesiologists.

DiDomenico — ...

To the Editor: Cases of unnecessary disease or disability and unnecessary untimely deaths are sentinel health events that, like maternal and infant mortality, can serve as negative indexes of the quality of medical care. In an earlier article on ...

To the Editor: Rare adverse effects of new drugs are often missed in prospective trials.* Disopyramide (Norpace) has been on the United States market since 1977 and began to be used at this medical center in 1978. Shortly thereafter, we suspected that ...

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To the Editor: Crile et al.¹ incorrectly use our data obtained at the Michael Reese Hospital²,³ to assert that radiation-related thyroid cancers are less dangerous than other thyroid carcinomas. To put their statement into perspective we wish to make ...

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In May 1898, William Osler read a paper before the 24th annual meeting of the American Neurological Society. The paper was published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases in February 1899.¹ The title of the paper was "An Acute Myxcedematous ...

Radiation and Radiology

General

Practical Points in Radiation Oncology. By Larry E. Mulkerin. 255 pp. Garden City, New York, Medical Examination Publishing Company, 1979. $14.50.

Radiation Biology and Chemistry: Research developments. (Studies in Physical ...

BIRTH DEFECTS

The March of Dimes will hold its 1980 Birth Defects Conference on the Fetus and Newborn, June 8-11 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel, New York.

Contact the March of Dimes, 1275 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; or call Dr. Arthur Bloom, (...

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