THE possibility that some patients with diabetes synthesize a structurally abnormal insulin molecule with reduced biologic activity has been considered for many years.^{1 2 3 4} In 1966, Elliott et al.⁵ showed that the circulating insulin in patients with ...

NAUSEA and vomiting of central origin occur after the administration of a variety of chemotherapeutic agents for cancer and frequently constitute the major illness resulting from such treatment. Control with classic antiemetics has been incomplete and ...

REFINEMENT in the diagnosis of cardiac valvular disease by means of echocardiography and left ventricular angiography has led to the delineation of the condition usually referred to as the prolapsing mitral valve. Although a few papers described the mid-...

IN the past few years, there has been an increase in the number of systemic fungal infections seen in clinical practice. These infections have been of two types: those due to primary pathogens such as Coccidioides immitis, Histoplasma capsulatum, ...

CORTICAL cerebellar degeneration is a paraneoplastic syndrome in which diffuse atrophy of the cerebellum and of the associated spinocerebellar tracts and systems occurs as a remote effect of a neoplasm. Since the first case report by Brouwer in 1919,¹ ...

IT seems only yesterday that cell biology was the purest and most basic of all fields in biomedical research, in constant need of defense before skeptical Congressional subcommittees, hard to justify for tax-payers' funds except on grounds of rather vague ...

Presentation of Case

A 56-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of fever and diarrhea.

She was well until 10 days earlier, when dysuria occurred, and a physician prescribed sulfisoxazole. Two days later she became nauseated and vomited; ...

DURING the past quarter-century, studies of the insulin molecule have elucidated details of its biosynthesis, structure, and function. These studies of insulin, a two-chain peptide hormone with a molecular weight of 6000, have provided a framework for the ...

The chart rack at the nurses' station is the locus of almost unparalleled activity and interest in the general hospital. Morning rounds customarily begin there with a hasty chart review. Loose-leaf binders open and close virtually hundreds of times a day ...

One controversial aspect of the current emphasis on patients' rights involves the issue of access to one's own medical records. The right to obtain one's own record in federal institutions has been established by law.¹ Several states have laws similar to ...

Data on hospital patients are used by planning and regulatory bodies to determine the future of hospitals and particular services and to establish criteria for reimbursement programs. Health planners and regulators approached hospital administrators with ...

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To the Editor: Advances in somatic-cell hybridization have made it possible to produce monoclonal antibodies in tissue culture.¹ Immunization of mice with pertinent immunogens stimulates the production of antibodies specific for the immunogens. Spleen ...

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The October, 1978, issue of Consumer Reports contained an article on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) classification of drugs at the time when they are approved for marketing.* This article focused primarily on the classification of a new ...

Anatomy, Histology, and Histochemistry

An Atlas of Cross-Sectional Anatomy: Computed tomography, ultrasound, radiology, gross anatomy. Edited by Stephen A. Kieffer and E. Robert Heitzman. 299 pp., illustrated. New York, Harper and Row, 1979. $42.50.

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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.

Date

Program

February 5

Diabetic Neuropathy: ...