VIRAL infections are frequent causes of acute episodes of wheezing in childhood.^{1 , 2} Previous studies have shown that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the major cause of bronchiolitis in the first year of life^{3 , 4} and of wheezing-associated ...

RECENT studies of high-dose chemoradiotherapy and marrow transplantation from an HLA-identical sibling have indicated that patients with leukemia who have a known, poor prognosis but receive a transplant during remission have little early morbidity and ...

THE advantages and disadvantages of multicenter clinical trials are well known.^{1 2 3} Although multicenter trials can generally be completed quickly because of a rapid accrual rate, there may be large differences in the number of patients entered by the ...

Cardiovascular Performance

In 1971, the technique of gated cardiac blood-pool imaging was developed. In this approach, the electrocardiogram is introduced into the imaging process to control the temporal sequence of imaging of the entire equilibrium blood ...

INBORN errors of amino acid metabolism are almost uniformly inherited in an autosomal-recessive manner, and the heterozygous state is without clinical expression. Exceptions to this pattern are X-linked ornithine carbamoyltransferase deficiency (and ...

THE growth of new capillary blood vessels toward a solid tumor is a process that requires both migration and proliferation of capillary endothelial cells.¹ As part of our studies of tumor-capillary inter-actions, we have cultured endothelial cells from ...

Presentation of Case

A 77-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of collapse.

There was a long history of obesity and heavy smoking. Twenty-one years before admission the patient had a myocardial infarct and retired from his work as a police ...

In this issue of the Journal, Chodak and his co-workers¹ report that urine from patients with carcinomas of transitional epithelium induced greater mobilization of cultured capillary endothelium than did urine from a variety of controls. For a full ...

IN 1977, in anticipation of a Supreme Court decision on Bakke vs. the Regents of the University of California, Schatzkin and Yergan¹ argued persuasively in the Journal for a continuing emphasis on minority admissions. As Mr. Bakke approaches graduation in ...

Recent reports have vividly documented a decline in the number of physicians entering careers in investigation and the threat that this decline poses to the biomedical-research structure that has existed for the past 30 years.^{1 2 3 4} This curtailed ...

To the Editor: Friedman and his colleagues (June 4 issue) try to assess, primarily, whether quitting smoking reduces the risk of mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD).¹ Some of these authors had previously shown that on the average, quitters ...

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To the Editor: Krieger and her co-workers reported in the October 30, 1975, issue that cyproheptadine was effective in the treatment of pituitary-dependent Cushing's syndrome,¹ and described in the February 21, 1980, issue a case of Nelson's syndrome in ...

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All students and physicians will gladly welcome the sixth edition of Prof. Dame Sheila Sherlock's famous textbook Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System. Once more, Prof. Sherlock has delivered a strikingly effective work for all. Something is here even ...

The book edited by Somers and Fabian promises to be a textbook on aging and the care of the elderly. The editors' intention was to provide guidelines for politicians, scientists, researchers, and a variety of practitioners, including nurses, physicians, ...

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Considerable progress in general and pediatric hematology is indicated by the fact that these editors have chosen to add more than 600 pages of material in this new edition. The increased bulk has been accommodated in two volumes. The first deals ...

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Anesthesiology

Anesthesia and Uncommon Diseases: Pathophysiologic and clinical correlations. Second edition. By Jordan Katz, Jonathan Benumof, and Leslie B. Kadis. 807 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1981. $49.

Cardiopulmonary Cerebral ...

PSYCHOSOMATICS

A symposium entitled "Psychosomatics in the 80's: New Developments, New Fields" will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, November 1–4.

Contact Dr. Jerome J. Harris, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, 70 W. Hubbard St., Chicago, IL ...

IN recent years, the medical community has become increasingly aware of the role of sociocultural influences — "life-style factors" — in shaping healthrelated conceptions and behavior. Our ongoing research project, called Cultural Indicators, has ...