THE incidence of pancreatic carcinoma has steadily increased in recent years,^{1 2 3} yet its diagnosis often remains difficult despite the availability of newer radiologic and endoscopic techniques.^{4 5 6 7 8 9} In the past, the various tests used to ...

THYMUS-derived (T) cells are important in all aspects of the human immune response.¹ Subsets of T cells can be identified by stable cell-surface differentiation antigens that code for specific T-cell functions.² Recently, the technology of producing ...

PRIMARY-health-care programs for rural populations in less-developed countries are now being implemented and reported by governments, international agencies, and private voluntary organizations.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8} These reports show that better methods are ...

PERINATAL mortality has decreased in pregnancies complicated by diabetes mellitus.¹ As losses from stillbirths, intrapartum asphyxia, and hyaline-membrane disease diminish, major congenital anomalies emerge as the most important causes of mortality in ...

THE development of acquired pure red-cell aplasia in some patients is based on autoimmune mechanisms,^{1 , 2} as indicated by a favorable clinical response to immunosuppressive therapy^{3 4 5 6 7 8} and by the presence of IgG autoantibodies that impair various ...

McARDLE'S syndrome,¹ an inborn error of metabolism caused by a lack of glycogen phosphorylase activity in skeletal muscle, is a recessive condition of some rarity.² Nevertheless, it poses a constant problem in the differential diagnosis of all forms of ...

PHYSICIANS have a particular interest in the prevention of torture and in the effective punishment of barbarous acts of official torture by police and other government agencies. The profession of medicine is based fundamentally on the premise: do no harm. ...

FOR many years antibodies have had a major role in the diagnosis of a wide variety of diseases. Radioimmunoassays and other immunologic assays are now used extensively in diagnostic laboratories to detect and quantitate drugs, bacterial and viral products,...

Presentation of Case

A 58-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of dyspnea and cough.

He was well until one year earlier, when he began to experience progressive exertional dyspnea and a persistent cough that occurred in paroxysms once or ...

Questions about the relation between metabolic control and the microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus have filled many pages with controversy. Until very recently, definitive answers were not possible because complete and sustained metabolic ...

Measurement of erythrokinetics with radioisotopes and the use of in vitro cultures of marrow cells in various semisolid media have enhanced our understanding of the regulation of erythropoiesis. In the 1950s and 1960s, Alpen, Lajtha, and Stohlmann and ...

One of the fondest aspirations of metabolically oriented physiologists has been to monitor biochemical reactions as they occur in living tissues and to do so quantitatively, repetitively, and nondestructively, without altering the function of the tissue ...

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To the Editor: Oral pancreatic extracts are useful in the treatment of malabsorption due to pancreatic insufficiency, but the steatorrhea is not always completely abolished.¹ In vitro and in vivo observations suggest that this therapeutic failure is due ...

To the Editor: Slow-release capsules appear to be a good way to administer drugs when constant serum concentrations are required over long periods, but the bioavailability of their contents shows great inter-individual variation.¹ Since this might be due ...

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To the Editor: Americans' interest in sport and play has produced reports in the Journal of fascinating injuries, whether they occur with the person on wheels,^{1 2 3} on foot,^{4 5 6} on a dance floor,^{7 , 8} or elsewhere.^{9 , 10} But armchair atheletes can now ...

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The use of raw or hurriedly steamed shellfish is recognized as a vehicle for the transmission of typhoid fever and Type A viral hepatitis.¹ Steaming contaminated clams for five minutes or less is not sufficient for them to reach an internal temperature ...

There are so many books about child development that it is difficult for the student or physician to know which to read. Many books that are intended to be more theoretical than practical give an overview of child development — physical, emotional, and ...

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This book appears to be one of the more useful byproducts of the International Year of the Child, 1979. It is a textbook for a course that I doubt is given anywhere: pharmacology for pediatricians or for those who administer drugs to children or to ...

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This is an important work that will be useful to pediatricians, internists, and clinical investigators who deal with immunodeficiency. The book has 24 chapters, each devoted to a different disease or clinical problem. The work was designed as a convenient ...

This is a book designed to meet the needs of students in medicine, dentistry, and related fields by presenting the essentials of histology in straightforward and simple terms. In an attempt to achieve this goal, the text has been made extremely brief, but ...

Few books can sustain several centuries of testing and remain seminal. Morgagni's The Seats and Causes of Diseases is one. Its publication in 1761 marked a turning point in the evolution of Western medicine by fostering the overthrow of one basic theory ...

Biology and Chemistry

Biological Roles of Copper. (Ciba Foundation Symposium 79.) Edited by David Evered and Geralyn Lawrenson. 343 pp. New York, Excerpta Medica, 1980.

Clinical Biochemistry Reviews. Vol. 2. Edited by David M. Goldberg. 433 pp. New York, ...

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