CYSTIC fibrosis (CF) is the most common autosomal-recessive disease of caucasians, affecting one in every 1600 to 2500 live births. This disease is characterized by the clinical triad of chronic pulmonary disease, pancreatic insufficiency, and elevated ...

CORTICOSTEROID therapy, alone or in combination with azathioprine, ameliorates clinical and biochemical abnormalities and enhances immediate life expectancy in many forms of severe chronic active hepatitis.^{1 2 3} Although indications for treatment⁴ and ...

ANALYSIS of the first five-year CMF (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil) adjuvant therapy program¹ carried out at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan has shown that rates of relapse-free survival and total survival were improved by the ...

BREAST cancer is the most common fatal neoplasm among women in the United States: it is estimated that 36,000 women will die of the disease this year.¹ The majority of women in whom metastatic breast cancer develops will be postmenopausal, and most will ...

THE treatment of patients with ethylene glycol poisoning includes both hemodialysis and ethanol.^{1 2 3} However, there are no data on the pharmacokinetics of ethylene glycol in human beings or on the changes in these kinetics effected by therapy. In a ...

GIARDIA LAMBLIA is recognized as an important cause of acute illness in human beings. Community-wide waterborne outbreaks of giardiasis have been documented with increasing frequency, ^{1 2 3 4 5} and backpackers have become ill after drinking water from ...

SPASTICITY has been defined in strictly physiologic terms as "a motor disorder characterized by a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes ('muscle tone') with exaggerated tendon jerks, resulting from hyperexcitability of the stretch reflex, ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 53-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of subarachnoid hemorrhage.

She was well until seven months earlier, when she began to experience polyuria and polydipsia, and azotemia was found. Two months ...

Geneticists call cystic fibrosis the most common lethal inherited disease of whites. Pediatricians are pleased that affected persons live twice as long as they did a decade ago, and internists now encounter it as a "new" disease. An increasing number of ...

Adjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer involves the use of cytotoxic drugs after local and regional therapy has been given. It received extensive notice throughout the last half of the 1970s and is now established as a therapeutic concept. Its purpose is ...

In August 1978, the New York State Legislature passed a bill to develop a program that would deal with the health problems associated with exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES). The law, enacted as Chapter 715 of the New York Public Health Law, was a ...

To the Editor: In the August 28, 1980 issue Watson and Tang conclude that the radioimmunoassay of prostatic acid phosphatase (RIA-PAP) is a poor screening test for prostatic cancer. We agree with this conclusion but disagree with the authors' premise. ...

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This multiauthored book was edited by the former chief of the rectum and colon service at Sloan–Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City. Its objective is to present the concepts of the management of colorectal cancer as expressed by members of ...

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Bailey traces the evolution of clinical-laboratory services over the past several decades in the United States, assessing the effects of changing technology, economics, and organization on the production of laboratory tests and on medical practice outside ...

Practitioners of medicine have long been concerned with the quality and impact of continuing medical education. Originally, responsibility for staying up to date was a matter for the individual physician. Recent strong trends toward reaccreditation have ...

This book deals with the controversy over Dr. Feingold's dietary treatment for hyperactive children. The author has taken a critical but open-minded approach to the hypothesis that food colorings tend to produce behavioral and cognitive disorders in ...

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Endemic Goiter and Endemic Cretinism is an update of the World Health Organization monograph entitled Endemic Goiter (1960). Since that monograph's publication, specific and sensitive methods for measuring thyrotropin, thyroxine, triiodothyronine, and ...

This monograph is an example of an increasing trend in the pathological literature toward highly specialized short textbooks and away from comprehensive, multiauthored volumes. Because of the delays in the production of all-inclusive textbooks, the ...

Financing medical education is one of those arcane subjects whose many facets are understood by only a few cognoscenti. Those seeking to join that select group are well advised to read this book, a carefully structured collection of papers edited by ...

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Obstetricians and gynecologists probably feel like the Jobs of the medical profession. The benefits of their newer diagnostic techniques (e.g., electronic fetal monitoring and screening for alpha-fetoprotein) have been questioned, the frequency of their ...

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RADIOLOGY

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