THE primary immunodeficiency diseases consist of a variety of disorders that occur in both sporadic and hereditary forms. Included among the latter are four recognized primary immunodeficiency diseases inherited in an X-linked recessive pattern: 1.) X-...

THE urban elderly, the medically indigent, the chronically ill, and those who are homebound or in nursing homes present complex medical and social problems with needs that require care in ambulatory settings, acute-care hospitals, chronic-care hospitals ...

MEDICAL and social progress often alter the distribution and impact of a disease. There is perhaps no disease of which this is truer than tuberculosis. The "white plague" of centuries past has become a condition that is today not only treatable and ...

ATTENTION has been focused on milk pollution by reports at scientific meetings and federally sponsored conferences, in scientific journals,-"⁶ and in the lay press. Although brief articles for the clinician have appeared in the pediatric literature,,'⁸ a ...

THE organ systems most clearly affected by cystic fibrosis are regulated in part by the autonomic nervous system. Abnormal autonomic regulation may contribute to the clinical spectrum of cystic fibrosis.^{1 , 2} Previous studies have suggested that alpha-...

PRIMARY orthostatic hypotension is an inexorably progressive condition characterized by symptoms and signs of sympathetic-nervous-system degeneration.¹ A striking clinical feature of this disorder is severe orthostatic hypotension, often without ...

FAMILIAL hypercholesterolemia is a common, dominantly inherited disease characterized by increases in plasma cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins (LDL), xanthomas, and premature atherosclerosis. Patients with the homozygous form may have plasma LDL ...

FIFTY years ago, Heinrik Dam, while a doctoral student under Rudolf Schönheimer at the University of Freiberg, was investigating cholesterol bio-synthesis in chicks. He prepared fat-free diets by extracting the feed with organic solvents and noted that ...

Presentation of Case

A 15-month-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of a swollen knee.

She was delivered by cesarean section at 35 weeks of a second pregnancy, both of which were complicated by preeclampsia. Her birth weight was 2.8 kg. The ...

Production of gas in the intestinal tract is an aspect of human physiology that has received far more attention in the scatologic than the scientific literature. In recent years, however, a few reports have threatened to deflate some of the mythology ...

The literature of health education for the public is in disarray. It is jumbled, confused, and untidy. It is an omnium-gatherum of science, pseudoscience, tenuous theory, and unmitigated claptrap. Futhermore, it is ephemeral — made up largely of pamphlets ...

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To the Editor: In Case 6–1980 in the issue of February 14, Dr. Come observed that to his knowledge germ-cell tumors have so far not been described in association with Hodgkin's disease. Although we also are unaware of any such report in the literature, ...

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To the Editor: We wish to point out an error in the tabulation of normal reference laboratory values recently published in the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital.¹ The normal range for the free thyroxine index (fT₄I) is given as 1 to 4 ng ...

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To the Editor: Alerted by CPC 35–1979 and ensuing correspondence in the January 24 issue concerning the misrepresentation of illness by patients seeking unnecessary medical procedures or drugs, we recently recognized an unusual variant of simulated ...

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Although these two books have the same title, their contents are quite different. The book by Dr. Schultz deals with the subject suggested by its title — surgery that can be done well and safely in a properly equipped outpatient setting. The book edited ...

Those who anticipate the yearly appearance of this series will not be disappointed in Volume 8. Its first seven chapters, edited by Pravin Shah, cover the most important advances in echocardiography. "Echocardiography for Quantitation of Cardiac Chambers" ...

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Few medical specialties depend on anatomy as heavily as does neurology for understanding function in health and disease. It is fortunate, therefore, that neuroanatomy is enjoying a period of unprecedented growth in unraveling the complexities of brain ...

Neonatology and Perinatology

Children at Birth. By The Hathaways. 178 pp., illustrated. Sherman Oaks, California, Academy Publications, 1978. $5.95.

Diagnosis and Management of the Fetus and Neonate at Risk: A guide for team care. Fourth edition. By S. ...

PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY

A conference entitled "Pediatric Applications of Evoked Potentials" will be held at the Wisconsin Center in Madison, August 25–27. The fee is $200.

Contact Sarah Z. Aslakson, Continuing Medical Education, 465B WARF Bldg., 610 Walnut ...

So much confusion and rancor have recently been generated by Congressional efforts to write a legislative charter for the National Institutes of Health that it is difficult to determine what has actually happened, let alone estimate the potential effects ...