SEVEN cholera pandemics have occurred since the early 1800's. The seventh pandemic, caused by the El Tor biotype of Vibrio cholerae O1, began in 1961 in Indonesia, spread throughout Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, portions of Europe, ...

RADIOGRAPHIC evidence of osteolytic skeletal destruction can be found in nearly 80 per cent of patients with multiple myeloma,¹ which is frequently complicated by severe bone pain, pathologic fractures, hypercalciuria, and hypercalcemia.² Although major ...

THE biologically active form of vitamin D is 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)₂D). Endogenous and exogenous vitamin D is hydroxylated to 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) in the liver. The 25(OH)D undergoes a second hydroxylation in the kidney to form 1,25(OH)...

ALTHOUGH physicians have become aware of physical abuse as a common and complex problem of children, the scope of sexual offenses against children and adolescents is still largely unappreciated. Kempe¹ has recently pointed to the gaps in our understanding ...

DIVERTICULOSIS of the colon and its clinical consequences have become increasingly prevalent among the population of the United States and other economically developed countries with each passing decade. Truly a disease of the 20th century, it was earlier ...

SQUAMOUS-cell cancer of the cervix originates from intraepithelial precursors whose natural history has been studied extensively and is well understood.¹ There is abundant evidence that these precursors are part of a single disease continuum, called ...

CISPLATIN (cis-diamminedichloroplatinum) has been tested extensively against various solid tumors and has become commercially available. Recently, we saw two patients who had positive responses to the direct antiglobulin test while they were receiving ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 64-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of weakness.

She was well until 10 years previously, when palpitations occurred, and a physician heard a murmur. Digitalis was prescribed but was soon ...

As a resumé of the results of my inquiries, it may be set down as the unqualified opinion of all the physicians with whom I have consulted in the City of New Orleans, that the cholera of the spring of 1873 in that city and vicinity was native in its ...

Pathologic increases in bone resorption produce pain, fracture, hypercalcemia, and decreased bone mass in many disorders. In malignant diseases, particularly multiple myeloma and breast cancer, the ability of neoplastic cells to release factors that ...

Because sexual abuse of children can represent violation of one, two, or three of the most fundamental and universal of social taboos — sex with children, forced sex, and incest — it generates such a strong aversive reaction that one may lose the ability ...

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PROGRAMS FROM THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

The Children's Hospital of Denver will present the following programs: "Controversies in the Practice of Pediatrics" on February 19; "A Matter of Language — Seventh Annual Reading/Learning Disabilities Workshop" on ...