SINCE the licensure of rubella vaccine in 1969, policy in the United States has emphasized immunization of prepubertal children beginning at 12 to 15 months of age. Although this approach has resulted in a 70 per cent reduction in rates of reported ...

SINCE 1976, a case–control drug surveillance program has been in operation.¹ Its purpose is to discover and evaluate associations between the use of drugs and subsequent effects on health that are serious enough to warrant hospitalization. In the course ...

PNEUMOCOCCAL vaccine is currently recommended for use in persons over two years of age who have splenic dysfunction or certain chronic conditions associated with increased morbidity or mortality from pneumococcal disease, such as diabetes mellitus, ...

PREVENTION of disease is being proposed with increasing frequency as a strategy to moderate the increase in medical-care expenditures. Acceptance of prevention, however, does not extend to all technologies or to all age groups. Primary prevention, the ...

KERATOACANTHOMAS are common cutaneous neoplasms that resemble squamous-cell carcinomas morphologically but behave in a biologically benign manner.¹ A rare clinical manifestation of this neoplastic process is the Ferguson Smith variant, a type ...

SALICYLATES are widely used in the treatment of rheumatic disorders, and they have been shown to induce minor changes in renal function.^{1 2 3}

One of the major mechanisms of action of salicylates is the suppression of prostaglandin synthetase activity, ⁴ ...

MARROW transplantation between genotypically HLA-identical siblings has an established and expanding place in the management of leukemia and aplastic anemia.^{1 2 3} The majority of patients, unfortunately, do not have such siblings. Experience with marrow ...

THERE is considerable evidence that many people with diabetes mellitus of either juvenile or adult onset have moderately reduced bone mass (osteopenia).^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14} For example, Levin et al.¹⁰ measured bone density by photon absorption ...

Presentation of Case

A 30-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a question of a pericardial tumor.

He was in excellent health and asymptomatic. Four months earlier a routine x-ray film of the chest showed a mass adjacent to the left cardiac ...

Because of the morbidity and mortality associated with pneumococcal pneumonia, meningitis, and otitis media, and because pneumococci that were resistant to one or more antimicrobial drugs had been isolated from infected patients, a vaccine containing the ...

IN 1973, Franz Ingelfinger called attention to the precarious budgetary support of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).¹ The administration had proposed a budget of $22.8 million, and the House of Representatives had concurred, but some ...

DEATHS

Haskins — Abraham Haskins, M.D., of Brookline, died on April 29. He was in his 86th year.

Dr. Haskins received his degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1917. He was a member of the American Medical Association and a 50–year member of the ...

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To the Editor: Disopyramide is gaining widespread acceptance as an antiarrhythmic drug. The proliferation of the use of this drug has been followed by several case reports of adverse reactions. Podrid et al. reported in the March 13 issue on the ...

To the Editor: We wish to bring to the attention of physicians and laboratory and industrial workers the possibility that hydrazine may induce a syndrome similar to systemic lupus erythematosus. Certain other drugs, such as hydralazine, have been known ...

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To the Editor: Four patients with disordered memory were given pilocarpine (a cholinergic receptor agonist) during an open therapeutic trial. Patient 1, a 31-year-old man, suffered from a persistent, post-traumatic Korsakoff-type syndrome, with ...

To the Editor: Reports of behavioral treatments for essential hypertension in the past 12 years have raised hopes that they may become viable alternatives to antihypertensive medications, at least for some patients. Many patients would prefer behavioral ...

To the Editor: It has been stated that the blood levels of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) are correlated with the clinical evolution of bronchogenic carcinoma.¹ Assays of CEA in pleural effusions and bronchial secretions have also been proposed as ...

To the Editor: In the interval between January 1, 1979 and July 26, 1980, approximately 1871 cases of malaria in the United States were reported to the Center for Disease Control, ^{1 , 2} an incidence of about 98 per month. If the incidence in California (...

To the Editor: Three years ago¹ my colleagues and I reported that 85 per cent of a group of travelers (including a physician and two nurses) in Belize, a malarious Central American country, were not taking chloroquine prophylaxis. However, 75 per cent of ...

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A schema for classification of a large body of observed phenomena often is suggested by a theory consisting of a few elegant principles; this has certainly been the case with aphasia. The classification of aphasias that was developed by Wernicke and ...

Probably no area of basic medical investigation is more relevant to understanding modern advances in clinical science than immunology. Immunologic studies have improved the diagnosis of diseases of almost every organ system and the delineation of their ...

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Drug Carriers is a summary of ways to improve the selectivity of drug action by the enhancement of drug delivery to target cells. The editor expresses the hope that the factual material and the speculations will "stimulate readers and attract new ...

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Radiation and Radiology

General

The Standard Biphasic-Contrast Examination of the Stomach and Duodenum: Method, results, and radiological atlas. By J. Odo Op den Orth. 182 pp., illustrated. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. $56.40.

Nuclear Medicine

The ...

ACUPUNCTURE

The Acupuncture Education Center of Florida, Massachusetts, and New York has made available a schedule of courses for 1980–81.

Contact The Acupuncture Education Center, 13757 N.E. 3rd Court, #210A, North Miami, FL 33161; or call (305) 891–...

Airline passengers who request a low-calorie soft drink these days also get some advice: the label on the can warns that the drink contains saccharin, which has been shown to be carcinogenic in animals. Those who request whiskey receive no such warning. ...