CYSTIC fibrosis, a multisystem disease of children and young adults, is the most common serious genetic condition among whites.¹ Chronic progressive pulmonary disease associated with bacterial infection is the major cause of morbidity and mortality.² ...

IN September, 1975, we began a double-blind, multicenter clinical trial to assess the efficacy of sulfinpyrazone (200 mg four times daily) in reducing cardiac mortality among patients with a recent, documented myocardial infarction. We stopped adding ...

LITHIUM carbonate induces an innocuous and reversible leukocytosis when given to psychiatric patients.¹ Preliminary observations from a number of investigators have indicated that lithium carbonate may be capable of ameliorating the leukopenia associated ...

CONSIDERABLE use has been made of needle biopsy for diagnostic and investigative purposes in recent years.¹ However, many organs in man, including liver, kidney, and brain, are unsuitable for direct functional studies based on repeated biopsies, and hence ...

ALPHA-1-antitrypsin deficiency associated with chronic obstructive airway disease was recognized in 1963 by Laurell and Ericksson.¹ In 1969, Sharp² described the first cases of alpha-1-antitrypsin-deficiency disease in children with cirrhosis. Since then, ...

THE high-dose (8 mg per day) dexamethasone suppression test, as described originally by Liddle,¹ has come to be accepted as one of the most reliable means of identifying Gushing's syndrome due to excessive pituitary ACTH secretion (Cushing's disease). ...

A SURPRISING decision has been passed down by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Reversing the decision of a trial court, this ruling requires the admissions committee of the College of Medicine of the University of Oklahoma to open to the public all its ...

THE return of the London Times after publication had been suspended for nearly a year on account of a prolonged industrial dispute, largely concerned with levels of manpower and the introduction of new technology, has been generally welcomed although it ...

Presentation of Case

An 82-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a mass in the left shoulder.

She was well until nine months previously, when she began to have pain in the left shoulder accompanied by progressive swelling. Two months ...

At the turn of the decade, the results of three major clinical trials concerned with the treatment of patients who have survived an acute myocardial infarction are being published. One of these, on the use of sulfinpyrazone, appears in this issue of the ...

A decade ago most physicians had become convinced that treatment of moderate or severe hypertension with appropriate antihypertensive drugs would not only lower blood pressure but would also reduce overall morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular ...

Sullivan — Frank Joseph Sullivan, M.D., of Arlington, died on June 15. He was in his 71st year.

Dr. Sullivan received his degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1934. He was a Cambridge school physician and a member of the American Medical ...

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Here are two splendid books on gastrointestinal immunology.

Both are of high quality, logically organized, and well documented. Each, however, is directed to a somewhat different audience and achieves a somewhat different purpose.

Clinical ...

The advent of effective antimicrobials in the 1940's heralded, to many competent observers, the decline of otology, a specialty traditionally concerned with the surgical management of otitis media, mastoiditis, and related complications. Otologists, ...

Every medical specialty harbors its own small collection of manuals, many in paperback, that permit the beginner with only a modest background to enter the field. Anesthesiology is no exception in this regard, but here the student is often intimidated by ...

PROGRAMS FROM TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Tufts University School of Medicine will present a course entitled "The Medical Consequences of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War," cosponsored by Harvard Medical School, on February 9 and 10. For more information call ...