PATIENTS with left main coronary-artery disease form a heterogeneous population with a wide spectrum of disease severity. The operative risk in this patient subset has been difficult to evaluate because most series have been relatively small and the same ...

NORMAL women whose serum is positive for antibody to cytomegaloviruses (CMV's) frequently shed virus from a single site or several sites, including the genital and urinary tracts, pharynx, and breasts.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} Most often viral excretion is episodic, ...

IN his farewell address as President on January 17, 1961, Eisenhower warned his countrymen of what he called "the military-industrial complex," a huge and permanent armaments industry that, together with an immense military establishment, had acquired ...

RESISTANCE of the target cell to insulin action coexists with the skin lesion acanthosis nigricans in several distinct clinical syndromes.¹ The Type A syndrome of insulin resistance, in which insulin resistance and acanthosis nigricans occur together with ...

DEFICIENCY of the purine enzyme nucleoside phosphorylase is associated with a severe T-lymphocyte immune deficiency.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} The abnormality in the immune system results from the accumulation of purine metabolites that inhibit lymphocyte function.^{7 8 9} ...

THE immune response is initiated by the introduction of a foreign molecule, an antigen, into an organism. The manner in which an antigen stimulates immunity is immensely complex — a reflection, no doubt, of the multiplicity of effector functions that must ...

Presentation of Case

A 71-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of the nephrotic syndrome.

He was in vigorous health until five weeks earlier, when watery diarrhea and peripheral edema developed. The diarrhea worsened, and during the three ...

The End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) program was enacted by Congress in 1972 to provide Medicare funding for the treatment of chronic renal failure in all patients who required it and could presumably benefit from it. Eligibility was supposed to be ...

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To the Editor: Cefaclor (Ceclor, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Ind.) is an oral cephalosporin recently introduced for the treatment of otitis media in children. In one clinical trial, cefaclor has been found equal in efficacy to amoxicillin in acute bacterial ...

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To the Editor: In the past few months the Food and Drug Administration, Congress, and the press have shown a renewed interest in the issues concerning "orphan" or "public-service" drugs. These terms are applied to prescription drugs of limited commercial ...

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The preface to the second edition of Systematic Endocrinology states that like the first edition, the book is intended for senior medical students and general physicians. It fulfills this intent, offering an overview of clinical endocrinology that ...

Recent advances that have unraveled the pathophysiologic interactions between the pregnant diabetic woman, her fetus, and the placenta have lessened perinatal mortality and morbidity rates in most major medical centers. The diabetic pregnancy has recently ...

Dr. Milunsky's book primarily concerns the management of pregnancies that may involve genetic or developmental disorders of the fetus. It will be of considerable interest to any physician, pediatrician, or obstetrician who may be called on to advise a ...

This is a book by physicians (17 of the 18 authors) for physicians. It covers a wide range of the more typical issues in medical ethics, such as genetics, contraception, sterilization, abortion, care of the dying, the use and misuse of drugs, and clinical ...

I. A. Richards, with grace and wit, reviewed the Encyclopaedia Britannica (which edition I don't remember). In Volume 25 of Advances in Internal Medicine, there are 20 articles by 40 authors, each of whom is experienced, educated, and thoughtful in his ...

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"Grabb and Smith" has been the standard textbook of plastic and reconstructive surgery for students, house staff, and practicing physicians since the first edition (1968). Available in paperback, it has provided a relatively inexpensive, concise, and ...

The second edition of Eriksson's Illustrated Handbook in Local Anesthesia has eagerly been awaited by anesthesiologists and others interested in techniques of regional anesthesia. The first edition, which appeared in 1969, is considered by many to be a ...

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One of the chief problems that confronts the hospital pathologist in daily practice is the accurate diagnosis of cancer, the distinction between life-threatening neoplastic disease from non-neoplastic conditions that mimic it histologically. That the ...

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In the film, Zorba the Greek, the townspeople of a small island condemn a young widow to death. After witnessing the execution, Zorba asks, "What happens to people after they die? Don't your books tell you the answer?" After a long pause, his friend ...

Patients is an unusual scientific report: six case studies made up entirely of photographs and the recorded and transcribed talk of patients, their families, doctors, and nurses. The patients range from a seven-year-old girl who had her eyes surgically ...

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Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology has become a standard reference to major new developments in neuroendocrinology. The new sixth volume focuses "on the isolation, synthesis, and characterization of hormones occurring simultaneously in the brain and other ...

LAW AND MEDICINE

A "National Institute on Law and Medicine" will be held at the Hyatt Regency-Union Square in San Francisco on November 13 and 14.

Contact Ernestine Murphy. American Bar Assoc, 1155 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637; or call (312) 947–3612.

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When the directorship of the National Cancer Institute became vacant early this year, the search committee pondered "insider" versus "outsider" — and decided on one of NCI's most veteran insiders: Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D., who joined the Institute in ...