THE effect of dietary saturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and cholesterol on levels of serum cholesterol in human beings under controlled isocaloric conditions has been well established through experimental studies.^{1 2 3 4} Decreasing the ...

INITIAL pharmacologic treatment of chronic asthma includes theophylline, cromolyn, and sympathomimetic bronchodilators as single agents or in combination. A few patients in whom symptoms are not adequately controlled with these medications, however, ...

IT has been recognized for several years that aspirin inhibits platelet aggregation by acetylating the enzyme cyclooxygenase.^{1 , 2} However, the potentially beneficial effect of aspirin on prostaglandin biosynthesis in platelets may be offset by a similar ...

MYCOPLASMAS have long been recognized as pathogens of the respiratory tract, urogenital tract, and joints in a variety of animal species.¹ With rare exceptions, they produce diseases that are chronic and often of multifactorial origin, the syndrome ...

EXTENSION of the subarachnoid space into the sella turcica, in the absence of prior radiotherapy or surgery, is referred to as primary empty sella. In most patients with this anomaly, the sella is diffusely enlarged and pituitary function is normal.^{1 2 3 ...}

GAMMA-HYDROXYBUTYRIC acid (GHB) is a metabolite of an important inhibitory neuro-transmitter in the brain, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).^{1 , 2} However, GHB is itself a neuroactive compound that has several potent neuropharmacologic and neurophysiologic ...

Diazepam

Benzodiazepines such as diazepam enhance presynaptic inhibition in the spinal cord of the cat by facilitating or potentiating the postsynaptic effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)²⁰ (Fig. 2, Part I). To do this, benzodiazepines interact with ...

Presentation of Case

A 24-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of collapse.

He was well until 17 months earlier, when he received a shotgun blast in the face, without loss of consciousness. He was taken to the Emergency Ward, where ...

Everyone agrees that we need the understanding and participation of a well-informed public if we are to continue to improve the nation's health and our health-care system. The public's interest in medicine appears insatiable, and popular books on this ...

The 96th Congress saw the introduction of five procompetition bills for reform of the nation's health-services system. In order of appearance, their authors were Senator David Durenberger (R.-Minn.), a member of the Health Subcommittee of the Finance ...

IT is unfortunate that arguments about the continuing use of postoperative radiation therapy in women with breast cancer and positive findings in the axillary nodes have not been widely discussed in this country. The controversy has generally been ...

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To the Editor: The Sounding Board article in the August 28 issue by Hollingsworth and Kreutner contains many good points about the relative importance of social, economic, and biologic factors influencing the outcome of pregnancies in young women, but ...

After four years of work, reworking, debate, and compromise, the American Psychiatric Association's new diagnostic manual has finally appeared, superseding the second edition, which has been in use since 1968. So many changes and improvements have been ...

The author of this book contends that hypochondria is a common yet poorly understood and much maligned condition, one that was perhaps more sympathetically regarded and better treated in Elizabethan England than it is today. Defining health as a "state of ...

Dr. Robitscher has used his background as a lawyer and psychiatrist to write an important book about the uses and abuses of power by psychiatrists. Although many of the issues that he addresses have already been discussed in the scientific literature and ...

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For the past 10 years Cancer Chemotherapy has admirably filled the need for an affordable and readable synopsis of drug treatment of cancer. Because it was written by only two authors, this book avoided the pitfalls of larger, multiauthored textbooks. The ...

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Two radiologic textbooks with a similar scope but markedly differing approaches have recently been published. Despite the apparent similarity of the material, differences in concept and execution have resulted in vastly different books.

Marshak, Lindner, ...

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In Terminal Care, Loma Feigenberg, the Swedish oncologist, discusses his method of caring for the dying.

The author begins by reviewing some common concepts of death and dying and ends with a superb appendix on the thanatologic literature. In the several ...

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Medicine

Renal

Renal Transplantation: A multidisciplinary approach. Edited by Satya N. Chatterjee. 283 pp., illustrated. New York: Raven Press, 1980. $24.50.

Research Animals and Experimental Design in Nephrology. (Contributions to Nephrology. Vol. 19.) ...

PSYCHIATRY

A conference entitled "Psychiatric Education for Rural Settings" will be held in Boston on April 9 and 10. Registration is limited.

Contact Jayne Kasarda, Office of Education, American Psychiatric Assoc., 1700 18th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. ...

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