ACCUMULATION of evidence of a relation between hyperglycemia and the microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus¹ has led to efforts to develop new methods to improve metabolic control, since conventional insulin therapy has not been successful in ...

UREMIA is commonly associated with an abnormal bleeding tendency and a variety of hemostatic disorders including prolonged bleeding time¹; defective platelet aggregation to adenosine diphosphate (ADP), collagen, and epinephrine; decreased platelet ...

PRIMARY malignant brain tumors occur at an annual rate of approximately 4.5 cases per 100,000 population. Forty-three per cent of these cases are designated as malignant gliomas. Included within this group are glioblastoma multiforme, malignant ...

THE steady growth of costs related to laboratory testing has been a major factor in the overall growth of health-care expenses.^{1 , 2} Testing has become a major portion of hospital costs, and with an annual growth in laboratory use of 14 to 15 per cent ...

IN the half century since Følling's original description, ¹ phenylketonuria (PKU) has become a classic example of a genetic disorder because it illustrates three historic principles of human and medical genetics.² First of all, the disease is inherited as ...

GLOMERULAR deposits of IgA are common and are thought to play an important part in the pathogenesis of several different diseases. Primary IgA nephropathy (Berger's disease) is a common type of glomerulonephritis that occurs chiefly in early adult life; ...

Presentation of Case

A 47-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of cranial-nerve palsies.

He was in excellent health until eight days earlier, when abdominal bloating, nausea, and vomiting occurred while he was at work as a waiter. On the next ...

The National Board of Medical Examiners was founded in 1915 for the express purpose of preparing and administering qualifying examinations of sufficient quality that state agencies could use them as criteria for licensure. At present, 48 states accept ...

There are several misconceptions of the role and responsibility of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) and the purpose and use of its certifying examination, Parts I, II, and III.

The NBME is an independent private agency whose principal ...

The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), founded in 1912, is a voluntary, nonprofit agency composed of 62 licensing authorities (the medical boards of the 50 states and 12 other authorities). The Federation has strived since its founding to advance ...

DEATHS

Arent — Anthony Paul Arent, M.D., of Worcester, died on September 1. He was in his 72d year.

Dr. Arent received his degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1942. He was a member of the American Geriatrics Society and the American Medical ...

To the Editor: The high risk of future cardiovascular complications observed in patients in whom myocardial infarction was ruled out after admission to a coronary-care unit supports the contention of Schroeder et al. (July 3 issue) that many of these ...

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To the Editor: In the April 3 issue, Brenner and Bloomer demonstrated decreased activity of protoporphyrinogen oxidase, an enzyme in the heme biosynthetic pathway, in five patients with variegate porphyria. They proposed that, because of this enzyme ...

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According to the editors, the 17th edition of Zinsser's Microbiology is intended for first-year medical students studying microbiology, for advanced undergraduates interested in medicine or biomedical research, and for advanced medical students, house ...

Single-author textbooks usually represent immense labor and often display impressive breadth and depth of knowledge. In those respects these two books on lung function are similar, and both address the basic elements of respiratory physiology; but they ...

This book, written by specialists in many disciplines, succeeds in the often difficult task of conveying a unified message to its readers: that the attitude toward older persons has to be changed if high-quality care is to be provided to them. Humanity in ...

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This textbook might have been an important new learning aid for courses in medical pharmacology if its authors had not attempted too much for too diversified an audience. Its major innovation lies in the substantial amounts of material provided as "a ...

The recent advances in understanding neurotransmission and the mechanism of action of psychoactive compounds have led to the emergence of new fields of neuropsychopharmacology, neuropharmacology, psychopharmacology, neuropsychoendocrinology, ...

Anyone who tries to do biomedical research nowadays is quickly immersed in electronic gear: transducers, detectors, recorders, microprocessors, computers, and similar machinery. The average physician, or indeed anyone with a basic scientific education who ...

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This book is welcome since it contains a wealth of up-to-date information, useful both to teachers of genetics and to persons trying to learn medical genetics as a specialty. The book comprises an introduction, nine chapters, and nine appendixes. The ...

TRAUMA CENTER DEVELOPMENT

A course entitled "EMS Systems and Trauma Center Development" will be held in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, January 12–17.

Contact the Program of Continuing Education, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 10 S. Pine St., ...

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