MOST analyses of the clinical outcome of maintenance dialysis treatment for end-stage kidney disease have focused mainly on the duration of patient survival. It is now acknowledged that this form of therapy can add months or years to the life of almost ...

IN a double-blind, placebo-controlled study, ¹ vidarabine (adenine arabinoside) reduced mortality due to herpes simplex encephalitis and gave no evidence of drug toxicity. The placebo-controlled investigation was terminated because ethical-review groups ...

THE clinical and pathologic consequences of iron overload are well known in patients with idiopathic (familial) hemochromatosis, who suffer from lifelong excessive gastrointestinal absorption of iron.¹ In thalassemia, which likewise involves a state of ...

THE Prader–Willi syndrome consists of muscular hypotonia, obesity, short stature, small hands and feet, hypogonadism, and mental retardation. Although an autosomal-recessive mode of inheritance has been suggested, the origin of the disease has been ...

IN the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), the basic water-restriction treatment^{1 , 2} can be difficult for the patient to endure. Demeclocycline³ or urea⁴ may then be tried. We treated a patient who had this syndrome without ...

THE study of lymphocyte-surface markers is central to cellular immunology and is a complex and rapidly changing field.^{1 , 2} Nonetheless, this is an appropriate time to review the knowledge derived from the conventional techniques of rosette formation and ...

A GIRL was born on July 25, 1978, as a result of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer.¹ After that, a boy was born in England through the efforts of the same investigators, ² and more recently a girl was born in Australia through the efforts of an ...

Presentation of Case

A 32-year-old right-handed man was admitted to the hospital because of an ataxic gait and right-sided weakness.

He was well until 15 months earlier, when he became aware of intermittent diplopia during vigorous exercise. Eleven months ...

WE all have a stake in the billion-dollar End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) program, not least because its cost is borne largely by Medicare. We would naturally like to receive frequent, comprehensive, and reliable reports about its progress, along the lines ...

Elderly citizens and their concerned offspring incorrectly assume that Medicare coverage surely makes them eligible for care in a nursing home when the need eventually arises. There is a good reason for this assumption — after all, the Medicare pamphlets ...

To the Editors: Your editorial in the October 23 issue stated that variations in dialysis rates among states demonstrate that different criteria are being used to determine the need for dialysis in different parts of this country. To explore an ...

To the Editor: In the course of the past year I have occasionally been called on to evaluate a polycythemic patient for a therapeutic phlebotomy. As part of my evaluation I inquire about the patient's previous work history. Being in the military, I was ...

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To the Editor: There is much discussion about which of the Korotkoff sounds is most indicative of "true" diastolic blood pressure. The American Heart Association recommended in 1939 that the fourth phase, or muffling, be adopted as the criterion for ...

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To the Editor: We have followed with interest the recent letters and reports in the Journal on the medical complications of the use of chewing tobacco and snuff. We wish to report that the use of chewing tobacco by a diabetic patient resulted in poor ...

The name Corrigan is familiar to medical students and doctors the world over. Indeed, in Victorian days Corrigan's contributions to clinical medicine were acknowledged by a host of eponyms — maladie de Corrigan, Corrigan's cirrhosis, Corrigan's sign, ...

In this new work the author stresses his concern with "a functional approach to radiological investigation and diagnosis." This approach is interpreted to mean that a "simple physiological method of investigation consists of examining the different ...

This small work surveys recent published discoveries concerning almost all aspects of gastroenterology. In this respect it differs from the three previous volumes published under this title, which are collections of reviews on selected gastrointestinal ...

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To learn about the surgical treatment of disorders of childhood, students and residents have a choice between an encyclopedic reference textbook, which is too long, too heavy, and too expensive for their needs, or a handbook in which the discussion of ...

The field of child neurology is itself an awkward child; it is one of the few pediatric specialties in need of more practitioners. Does it belong in a department of pediatrics? There are many unsettled questions — for example, just what training does a ...

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Social Topics

Assessing the Contributions of the Social Sciences to Health. (AAAS Selected Symposium 26.) Edited by M. Harvey Brenner, Anne Mooney, and Thomas J. Nagy. 215 pp. Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 1980. $20.

Burn-Out: Stages of disillusionment ...

PULMONARY DISEASE

A seminar entitled "Occupational and Environmental Pulmonary Diseases" will be held at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., on March 7.

Contact Ruth K. McIntyre, Midwest Ctr. for Occupational Health and Safety, 640 Jackson St., ...

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