NAUSEA and vomiting remain the most frequent and debilitating acute side effects of chemotherapy for advanced cancer. Phenothiazines such as prochlorperazine (Compazine) are the best studied and most widely used standard antiemetic agents.¹ Although ...

IN 1965 Hathaway et al. described a new asymptomatic clotting defect characterized by a prolonged partial thromboplastin time.¹ The defect was thought to be due to a deficiency of a hitherto unrecognized clotting factor and was named Fletcher-factor ...

BLEEDING that recurs or continues after hospital admission for an acutely bleeding peptic ulcer is the single most important factor adversely affecting prognosis and can result in a 12-fold increase in mortality.¹ Better results could be obtained if it ...

UNLESS biopsy findings are either normal or pathognomonic of a particular disease, the pathologist's diagnostic views are couched in ambiguous language (e.g., "consistent with" or "cannot be ruled out"). Such biopsy reports are likely to frustrate the ...

ALL medical schools and many hospitals have medical libraries. Libraries catalog books by author, title, and subject and usually shelve them according to the organ system or medical specialty to which they pertain. Journals, however, are another matter. ...

UNTIL March 20, 1980, Mount St. Helens, located in the southwestern part of the state of Washington, was known primarily for its esthetic features. Geologically and historically, however, the mountain was far from tranquil. It is a part of the "Ring of ...

THE obstetrical management of women with autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (ATP) is controversial. Because of transplacental passage of antiplatelet antibody, children of these women are frequently born with low platelet counts, and there is concern ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. An 82-year old man was admitted to the hospital because of a right pleural effusion.

He was well until seven weeks earlier, when fever developed, with a cough productive of small amounts of sputum. Physical ...

The achievements in cancer chemotherapy have been remarkable since World War II, when the modern era of antimetabolites and cytotoxic agents began. Although the rate of progress has been uneven, this is perhaps not surprising, given the lack of a unifying ...

Elsewhere in this issue, Schwartz, Wolfe, and Pauker¹ tackle the problem of the equivocal pathological diagnosis, specifically with reference to diagnostic biopsies. As the authors do not hesitate to point out, it is a frustrating experience for the ...

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a relatively uncommon disorder that has a predilection for women of childbearing age. In fact, a clue to the possible immune nature of ITP came from the observation that many women with ITP bear children with ...

In May 1956, the Massachusetts Medical Society observed its 175th anniversary by noting the occasion briefly on the inside cover of a program for a three-day scientific meeting. Titled Eight Score and Fifteen Years, the unsigned* acknowledgement concluded:...

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To the Editor: In the July 16 issue, Nakauchi et al.¹ describe their findings concerning levels of IgA, IgG, and IgM in patients undergoing hemodialysis. We would like to add further information with regard to IgE in chronic uremia and its relation to ...

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts are now being accepted for the Seventh National Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Symposium, which will be held in Keystone, Colo., July 25–27. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 31.

Contact Jennifer L. Piersma, ...

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