ANGINA pectoris precedes myocardial infarction in about half the patients,¹ and it is a common misconception that many patients will have their angina "cured" by the infarct. Matthews et al.² found that post-infarction angina developed in 85 per cent of ...

THE Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is an X-linked disease characterized by overproduction of uric acid and a Central-nervous-system disorder consisting of mental retardation, spasticity, choreoathetosis, and a compulsive form of self-mutilation. A deficiency in ...

IN patients with symptomatic coronary heart disease, the occurrence of profound ST-segment depression (>2 mm) provoked by exercise-tolerance testing is associated with angiographically demonstrable, severe, multivessel coronary-artery disease.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} ...

THE World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, together with representatives of 134 member governments, launched a campaign in 1978 to achieve "Health for All by the Year 2000" through primary health care.^{1 , 2} The objective of this campaign was to ...

THE term "acute psychosis" denotes a group of medical disorders characterized by a diminished and distorted capacity to process information. In some cases the cause is a recognized physiologic abnormality of brain function. Such cases may be called "...

PREMATURE infants have markedly decreased levels of factors XI and XII and prekallikrein, which play an important part in the initiation of blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, kinin generation, and complement activation.¹ The mechanisms responsible for the ...

INFECTION with Pseudomonas pseudomallei acquired in the Western hemisphere is exceedingly rare. Careful questioning of patients with acute or chronic melioidosis will usually reveal a recent or remote history of travel to Asia or, infrequently, South ...

Presentation of Case

A 15-year-old right-handed girl was admitted to the hospital because of neutropenia and fever.

A heart murmer was heard in early childhood and was ascribed to pulmonic stenosis. She was otherwise well until 4 1/2 years before entry, ...

Numerous studies have identified the extent of myocardial damage as an important prognostic factor in both early and late mortality after an episode of acute infarction. Thus, indexes relating to the extent of acute infarction, such as creatine kinase ...

Attempts to explain the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders are frustrated by the fragmentary information available relating neurochemistry to brain function. A large number of physiologically active substances that are thought to be involved in ...

In recent years, decision analysis has been increasingly advocated as a means of solving complicated clinical problems. These problems tend to involve numerous variables that must be carefully weighed before a solution can be proposed. For example, an ...

Bulian — Max Joseph Bulian, M.D., of Chestnut Hill, died on September 14. He was in his 60th year.

Dr. Bulian received his degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1946. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of ...

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To the Editor: Many food additives, including the preservative metabisulfite¹ and the coloring agent tartrazine,² may provoke asthma, usually within an hour of ingestion. We have recently investigated two young women who had life-threatening asthma after ...

To the Editor: Thickness of the primary tumor in millimeters is currently the best prognostic factor for patients with clinical Stage I melanoma,^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} even if regional lymph nodes contain metastases.¹ However, the mortality rate does not increase ...

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To the Editor: In recent years some studies have suggested a relation between the ratio of male births to female births and viral infections. An excess of males in the sibships and among the children of carriers of the Australian antigen (hepatitis B ...

To the Editor: The role of viral infection, in particular with Coxsackie B4, in the development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is suggested by the seasonal incidence of diabetes in children¹ and the antibodies to coxsackievirus raised in ...

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To the Editor: We question whether IgA2 is a predominant subclass of IgA deposited in kidneys of patients with IgA nephropathy, as reported by André and his associates in the December 4 issue.¹ In contrast to their report, Conley et al. have found that ...

To the Editor: I found the editorial by Dr. Epstein to be limited in its discussion of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and its unique capabilities (May 28 issue).¹ A technical point should be made regarding the change in NMR relaxation parameters ...

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What must be said first is that this book deals simultaneously with continuing education in all the health professions. Although this interdisciplinary approach is appealing, it takes some effort to sort out and understand what is of interest and ...

Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

Alcohol Problems and Alcoholism: A comprehensive survey. By James E. Royce. 383 pp. New York, Free Press, 1981. $16.95.

Alcoholism and the Physician. Part 1, Attitudes; Part 2, Early Diagnosis; Part 3, Confirming the Diagnosis; ...

AWARD FOR VASCULAR SURGICAL RESEARCH

The Liebig Foundation is offering an award of $5,000 for an essay in the field of vascular surgical research. The deadline for submission of papers is December 31.

Contact Dr. Richard J. Turner, 103 Bauer Dr., Oakland, ...