BONE-MARROW transplantation is effective therapy in patients with severe aplastic anemia or acute leukemia. One of the major deterrents to successful marrow engraftment is the occurrence of infections during the period of extended granulocytopenia.^{1 , 2} ...

THE group of liquid diets termed "elemental" has been widely used in the nutritional support of undernourished patients with intestinal disease.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} Generally, the solutions are low in fat and contain nitrogen in the form of hydrolyzed naturally ...

DATA on the incidence and precursors of atrial fibrillation that are based on samples of the general population rather than on clinical material are sparse. General-population data are desirable because information based on clinical samples is apt to be ...

Apnea and Respiratory Control

Because sudden death without an obvious cause implies the cessation of autonomie regulation of cardiovascular or respiratory activity or both, it is important to understand how normal control mechanisms maintain ventilation ...

VEHICULAR accidents represent the single greatest cause of death and injury to people under the age of 35 in the United States. Approximately 75 per cent of these accidents involve injuries to the head.¹ Cochlear and vestibular dysfunction represent the ...

TRANSIENT proteinuria has been found to accompany various physiologic and pathologic states in which normal kidney function is preserved. The best studied of these states has been febrile proteinuria, but transient proteinuria without renal disease has ...

WE present data documenting a secular trend toward an earlier age of menarche in Europe and the United States in the past century. There has been recent controversy on whether such a change has taken place.^{1 , 2} We have reviewed 218 reports on age of ...

Presentation of Case

A 77-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever and subcutaneous masses.

He was well until three months previously, when a dry cough developed. Two months before admission the temperature rose to 38.9°C, accompanied by ...

Atrial fibrillation is the grandfather of cardiac arrhythmias. Known in the 19th century as "arrhythmia perpetua," it was clearly defined clinically by MacKenzie and electrocardiographically by Lewis at the beginning of this century. Except for the ...

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) scholarship program is a moribund child. The month of its death is predictable. In June of 1985 the small group of medical students who obtained NHSC scholarships as first-year students in 1981 will graduate — ...

RISK FACTORS AND LIFE STYLE: A STATEWIDE HEALTH-INTERVIEW SURVEY

Craig A. Lambert, PH.D., David R. Netherton, M.S., Lorenz J. Finison, PH.D., James N. Hyde, M.S., and Sharon J. Spaight, B.A.

"Life style" — the set of habitual behaviors adopted by personal ...

To the Editor: The fanfare that accompanied FDA approval of timolol for the prevention of reinfarction and cardiac death in survivors of acute myocardial infarction has evoked considerable interest among patients and physicians. In view of the ...

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To the Editor: The consequences of cimetidine-induced reductions in hepatic oxidative metabolism¹ and liver blood flow² have been considered largely in terms of impairment of the rate of elimination of exogenous subtances — drugs such as diazepam and ...

To the Editor: The case record in the December 10 issue describing intermittent hypercalcemia in a patient with sarcoidosis¹ was interesting. We have just studied a patient in whom severe hypercalcemia developed while there was no peripheral or systemic ...

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To the Editor: The major and apparently selective immunologic defect in patients with Chédiak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) is a profound decrease in the natural killer activity of peripheral leukocytes, as described simultaneously by Roder et al.¹ and by us.² ...

To the Editor: During a testing program to detect the exposure of Indian and Inuit residents of Canada to methyl mercury, a 46-year-old native woman was found to have the highest recorded mercury level in Manitoba. A hair sample (the concentration of ...

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The Reagan administration's budget proposals for the 1983 fiscal year include further cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and many other health programs. Probably the best preparation for the forthcoming debates is a review of what happened in Congress last year ...

Because of the importance and timeliness of this book, two reviews are offered: the first by a writer of the post World War II student generation, and the second by a physician educated before World War II.

These are dangerous and troubling times. The ...

Collections of essays by experts in the field are often very useful in bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives. Sometimes they include the defects associated with these virtues. This book skirts some defects and falls victim to others. As a whole ...

The author describes the rise and fall of the National Influenza Immunization Program designed to prevent a serious epidemic of influenza in 1976. Silverstein, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins, stepped out of his traditional academic setting to serve for ...

Turner provides the reader with an interesting and somewhat unorthodox autobiography that is interwoven with the history of Johns Hopkins.

Starting with his childhood in Prince Frederick in Calvert County, Maryland, he traces his career to St. John's ...

"Based on his experience as a surgical intern and resident at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx when the Young Lords attempted to take over the hospital in July 1970, the book is inspired, in part, by the sense of community activism prevalent in the Bronx at ...

Authors, practitioners, and lay people interested in examining the nature of the doctor–patient relationship, self-care, holistic healing, and alternative therapies have recently turned their attention to the generally accepted notion expressed by ...

The life of William Carlos Williams, like his poetry, has a surface plainness: almost all his 79 years (1883–1963) were spent in the same New Jersey town, treating the townspeople, many of whom were immigrant factory workers, and eventually their children ...

PROGRAMS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

The School of Medicine will present two postgraduate programs in May and June: "Fingers to the Toes: An Orthopedic Approach for the Family Physician" (May 9–14); and "Traumatic Brain Injury: A ...