IN the United States, women with symptoms of lower-urinary-tract infection account for more than five million office visits per year.¹ In England, dysuria and frequent urination may occur in as many as 20 per cent of the women per year, but only half ...

SINCE the observation by Rose and György¹ that vitamin E can act as an antioxidant to protect red cells from lysis induced by oxidant stress, additional evidence of a biologic effect of the vitamin and of its role in pathologic processes secondary to a ...

THE development of an inhibitor (antibody to factor VIII) in a patient with hemophilia makes treatment of bleeding episodes extremely difficult. Therapeutic approaches such as those with steroids, exchange transfusion, bovine and porcine factor VIII, and ...

Trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) is a fixed combination of two antimicrobial agents — a diaminopyrimidine (trimethoprim) and a sulfonamide (sulfamethoxazole) — purposely chosen to provide sequential and synergistic inhibition of bacterial folate ...

IN rheumatoid arthritis, synovial cells produce many mediators of inflammation in response to stimuli generated within the inflamed joint. Collagenase and prostaglandin E₂ are two of these mediators. Both are thought to contribute to the destructive ...

THE sympathoadrenal system is the prototype neuroendocrine system. Epinephrine is a hormone in the traditional sense. It is secreted from the adrenal medullae into the circulation and transported to its various target cells. In contrast, norepinephrine is ...

Presentation of Case

A 74-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of dysuria.

The patient was a native of Sicily who immigrated to the United States at the age of 14 years. At the age of 23 years he was first seen at this hospital because of ...

Most clinicians immediately suspect a diagnosis of bacterial cystitis in a woman who has dysuria and frequent urination but no clinical evidence of upper-urinary-tract infection. Yet studies from the United Kingdom^{1 2 3} and the United States⁴ show that 30 ...

Some view life as "just a bowl of cherries," and others perceive it as a series of attacks by free radicals that ultimately lead to our rancidity. It is for those who share this latter view that the article by Corash and his associates in this week's ...

In 1978, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals determined that as a requirement for accreditation a hospital must demonstrate that all physicians on its staff have had training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).¹ One state, California, ...

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To the Editor: We have recently diagnosed acute lead poisoning in an adult who became exposed to the metal in a bizarre manner: he ingested a large amount of lead paint with the hope of inducing hallucinations.

The patient was a 23–year-old man, an avid ...

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Since the publication of its first edition in 1973, Care of the HighRisk Neonate has become one of the most popular books on perinatal medicine and neonatal intensive care. Easy to read, combining text and a lively visual format with critical comments by ...

This collection of essays spans the research career of one of the country's foremost medical sociologists. Renee Fox has assembled selected writings, most of which have been previously published, that represent contributions in her primary fields of ...

Dr. Heppenstall has provided physicians and surgeons who treat skeletal injuries with a reasonably comprehensive one-volume text. The editor includes within each chapter heading a brief review of pertinent anatomic features. In addition, the first seven ...

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A major part of the difficulty clinicians have in understanding the prostaglandins stems from the more familiar hormones. The temptation is strong to force these fatty acids into the hormonal pigeonhole, but they simply will not fit. Prostaglandins are a ...

To an extraordinary degree, the recent exuberant growth of experimental and clinical endocrinology reflects the introduction of sensitive and specific methods of assaying the circulating hormones that are normally present in blood in extremely low ...

If the number of textbooks on pediatric hepatology is any criterion, then this specialty came of age in 1979. Mowat's Liver Disorders in Childhood was reviewed in the November 29th issue of the Journal, and we now have two more related books. One can ...

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THE KIDNEY: METABOLIC AND ENDOCRINE DISTURBANCES

The Kidney Foundation of Northern California will sponsor the 13th Annual Symposium on Kidney and Urinary Tract Diseases to be held at Stanford University School of Medicine on September 5.

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