THE associations between certain human-leuko-cyte histocompatibility (HLA) antigens and an increased risk of specific diseases has been known for several years.^{1 2 3} One such association is that of the HLA-B8 and HLA-DRw3 (HLA-B8/DRw3) antigens with ...

RECENT hypotheses have suggested that the adult respiratory-distress syndrome (ARDS) may result from white-cell sequestration in the pulmonary microcirculation, leading to the release of proteolytic enzymes.^{1 2 3} Although the role of lysosomal enzymes in ...

COLLAGEN biosynthesis involves an unusually large number of enzyme-catalyzed post-translational modifications of the initial polypeptide chains; many of the modifications are unique to collagen and a few other proteins with collagen-like amino acid ...

THE evidence that radiation causes myeloid leukemia is now overwhelming, and current interest has centered on the shape of the dose–response curve.^{1 2 3 4} Radiation also produces cancer in many other tissues of the body, although the latency period is ...

ONE of the results of the increasing numbers of medical-malpractice actions in American courts has been more aggressive retaliation by physicians who believe the actions to be unfounded or improperly brought against them. National surveys have not found ...

THE porphyrias are a group of diseases characterized clinically by photosensitivity and biochemically by elevated levels of porphyrins in erythrocytes, plasma, urine, or feces.^{1 , 2} Within minutes to hours after exposure to sunlight, dermal edema and ...

Presentation of Case

A 26-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of increasing jaundice and impending labor.

She was well until two and a half weeks earlier, when symptoms of an upper-respiratory-tract infection developed during the 30th week ...

Mutual confidence between physician and patient is a large element in the effectiveness and the economy of health care. That confidence is now widely imperiled. Its peril has arisen with the growth of medical technology and its attendant costs. The ...

IT is impossible to predict the events of the next two decades in the medical sciences. Technologic advances are occurring so rapidly that the character of medical practice may change dramatically in that time. No one knows what the next CAT scanner will ...

Cohen — Newman Cohen, M.D., of Jamaica Plain, died on December 10. He was in his 87th year.

Dr. Cohen received his degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1918. He was a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Physicians ...

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Well over 50,000 persons died of plague during the warm months in Moscow in 1771, and the pressure of socially inequitable mortality rates was unquestionably a cause of the explosive September riot in the city. During this uprising, the archbishop, who ...

This three-volume textbook in otolaryngology first appeared in 1973, and it resembles in outline the British work, Scott-Brown's Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat. The second edition has incorporated considerable expansion and updating. Throughout the ...

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When will we have a book that considers marihuana use objectively and assesses the quality and conclusions of marihuana research with proper scientific detachment? Bitter Grass is certainly not that book. In fact, it is extremely difficult to review ...

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The receipt of the following books is acknowledged, and this listing must be regarded as sufficient return for the courtesy of the sender. Books that appear to be of particular interest will be reviewed as space permits.

Pathology

Biopsy Pathology of the ...

EMERGENCY MEDICINE

A course entitled "Emergency Medicine: New Concepts in Resuscitation 1981" will be held at the Hyatt Lake Tahoe in Incline Village, Nev., February 15–19.

Contact the Dept. of Postgraduate Medicine, School of Medicine, University of ...