STUDIES of left-ventricular thrombosis as a complication of acute myocardial infarction have largely been limited to autopsy series, since no practical noninvasive method to detect a left-ventricular thrombus reliably has existed. Hence, little ...

IMPAIRED growth is a well-recognized complication of poorly controlled diabetes in childhood.¹ Even in the presence of apparently adequate diabetic control with conventional insulin treatment, Tattersall and Pyke found that adults with juvenile-onset ...

CONTINUING advances have improved survival rates in patients receiving renal allografts. Allograft survival, however, has not changed appreciably during the past decade.^{1 , 2} During this period, patients have been treated with protocols that mainly ...

WE have examined the natural history of genital herpes-simplex-virus (HSV) infection in cohorts of patients who presented with their first clinical episode of genital herpes and patients with a history of genital herpes, in order to identify patients at ...

MEDICAL education in the United States has been and will continue to be profoundly influenced by the many advances in biomedical science during recent years.^{1 , 2} We believe that the current economic and political climate of this country foreshadows a ...

NORMALLY, breathing by an undisturbed, awake person involves a smooth and regularly recurring sequence of inspiration and expiration without pauses. The rate and depth of breathing are regulated by a negative-feedback control system to maintain arterial ...

Presentation of Case

A 20-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain.

He was well until six months earlier, when he experienced the onset of weakness, fatigue, and anorexia, with subsequent loss of 18 kg in weight. One month ...

New and improved noninvasive techniques have provided better understanding of the factors that determine the outcome of acute myocardial infarction. In a study described in this issue of the Journal, Asinger et al. used two-dimensional echocardiography to ...

Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill has become the predominant public mental-health policy in most states. This policy has been supported by a curious political marriage of liberals, who decry the custodial-level care in state mental hospitals, and ...

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To the Editor: Berk and his coauthors from the Polycythemia Vera Study Group reported convincing evidence of a leukemogenic potential of chlorambucil in polycythemia vera (February 19 issue).¹ Similar results were reported previously regarding single-...

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To the Editor: Various drugs have been shown to cause carotid-sinus hypersensitivity,^{1 2 3} and recently Bauernfeind et al. indicated that alpha-methyldopa may have produced this abnormal response in a patient.⁴ However, this was not well documented since ...

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To the Editor: Much traditional medical dogma has fallen victim to the all-conquering controlled trial. Only the foolhardy still question the value of such studies. However, few physicians have both the time and expertise to scrutinize each trial, ...

To the Editor: A recent article by Schwartz et al.¹ suggested that market forces have caused an increased dispersion in the distribution of board-certified specialists, with specialists appearing for the first time in many small towns. However, it is ...

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To the Editor: Dr. Weed* repeatedly tells us that we must use "modern tools of communication," that we should "not rely too heavily on human memory and analytic capacities," and that we need to have access to "computerized knowledge structures." The ...

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To the Editor: In his comparison of faculty salaries in the 1950s and 1980s and conclusion that "academic life is no longer threadbare," Dr. Petersdorf* seems to me to have overlooked several key consequences of the recent inflation, notably in the costs ...

During the 1920s, evolutionary theory was in grave disarray. Breakthroughs in genetics in the early 1900s had led avant-garde biologists to dismiss Darwinian natural selection as the motive force of evolution; old-fashioned naturalists refused to believe ...

Physicians deal with the frequently flawed end product of human evolution. They cannot help but be interested in how we all got this way. At the same time other scientists (and maybe physicians themselves) are interested in how it all got started.

The two ...

Current discussions of the evolution of behavior may be classified into three types. There is a purely verbal theory exemplified by Dawkins' "selfish gene," which addresses genes and adaptation but disregards our profound ignorance of the mechanistic ...

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This book attempts to convey the perspective that the "disease of sexism" adversely affects the health of all women. The author has nicely organized her presentation into an introduction and three separate sections, each dealing with a different aspect of ...

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These three works represent the broadest possible span of textbooks on obstetrics and gynecology available today. They show the continuum as well as the contrast among the standard elemental handbook geared primarily to students and house staff, the ...

The receipt of the following books is acknowledged, and this listing must be regarded as sufficient return for the courtesy of the sender. Books that appear to be of particular interest will be reviewed as space permits.

The Journal solicits reviews of ...

MASSACHUSETTS THORACIC SOCIETY

The Society will sponsor a program entitled "Current Concepts in Pulmonary Disease" at the Wellesley Community Center in Wellesley, Mass., on September 15. The fee is $20.

Contact Colleen H. McComas, MTS Chapter ...

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