ALTHOUGH many epidemiologic studies have reported that prolonged administration of estrogen to postmenopausal women increases the risk of endometrial cancer,^{1 2 3 4 5} not all investigators agree with this conclusion.⁶ However, the majority view of a link ...

PROFOUND refractory heart failure remains a major cause of death in patients at high risk after cardiac surgery. The intra-aortic balloon has been used as a form of mechanical circulatory assistance in these patients when volume augmentation and ...

BREATHLESSNESS and exercise tolerance in patients with chronic airways obstruction correlate poorly with lung function.¹ Thus "pink and puffing" patients maintain nearly normal levels of blood gases at rest for many years, at the cost of persistent ...

Neurofibromatosis is of great importance not only to the thousands of affected patients and their physicians but also to researchers concerned with genetics, melanin synthesis, neural-crest embryology, cell-cell interactions, cancer, and other ...

JUST as chlorpromazine revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenic disorders in the 1950s, the adoption of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-III)¹ has revitalized the diagnosis. While ...

A NUMBER of human cancers are associated with ectopic hormone generation.^{1 2 3 4 5} Ectopic hormone production, which is usually restricted to polypeptide hormones, is secretion by a tissue that does not normally produce that hormone. The tumors frequently ...

Presentation of Case

A 23-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of Cushing's syndrome.

The patient was in vigorous health until one year earlier, when his parents noticed that his face appeared puffy. During the next few months, while training ...

At present there are more than 40 million women in the United States who are over 50 years of age. Indeed, one third of a woman's life is spent after menopause. Great effort must therefore be expended to understand the physiologic changes of the female ...

The goal of research on ventricular-assist pumping is the development of mechanical systems to replace the pumping action of the fatally dysfunctioning heart, which is unresponsive to medical or other surgical therapy. Some forms of such cardiac ...

The problem of alcohol addiction in physicians is a major one. Bissell and Jones have estimated that between 13,600 and 22,600 physicians in the United States are alcoholic or will become so.¹ Talbott and Benson conclude that one of eight physicians in ...

To the Editor: Although most cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the United States occur between April and September, approximately 3 per cent of the cases are reported during the colder months of the year. Presumably there are some errors in ...

To the Editor: In early September 1981, cases of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis began to occur in residents of Key West, Florida.^{1 , 2} The cases were characterized by sudden onset, bilateral involvement, excessive tearing, subconjunctival hemorrhage, ...

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To the Editor: I have just returned from an international medical congress hosted by the Soviet Union. My decision to attend the Moscow meeting was not an easy one, since I was well aware of the many arguments for boycotting scientific interchanges with ...

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COURSES OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

The American College of Physicians will offer two courses in January: "Clinical Recognition and Management of Heart Disease" (January 27–30) and "All About Peptic Diseases" (January 29–31).

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