THE prognosis of patients with myocardial infarction has been extensively investigated to identify subsets at high risk. However, most of the available series^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9} are retrospective, deal with selected groups of patients, or lack angiographic ...

ORAL glucose-electrolyte solutions have been shown during the past 10 years to be highly effective in the treatment of dehydration secondary to acute diarrhea in the developing world.^{1 2 3} This therapy is based on the simple physiologic observation that ...

THIS paper discusses and evaluates the participation of community hospitals in the clinical trials initiated and conducted by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG). These trials have the objectives of finding new beneficial therapies and ...

THE appropriate and rational use of drugs by the elderly is a matter of growing medical and social concern. Life expectancy in the Western world currently stands at 69 years for men and 77 years for women and is increasing.^{1 , 2} In 1980 an estimated 11 ...

IT has never been clear whether the natural history of calcium renal stone disease is different in women and men, because women are less frequently affected and constitute only a minor fraction of patients in published series.^{1 2 3} We present evidence ...

TENIPOSIDE (VM 26) is a semisynthetic derivative of podophyllotoxin (molecular weight, 657 daltons) that has been used for a decade in cancer chemotherapy, especially in lymphoma and brain tumors. The drug has been reported to cause anaphylactic reactions ...

AFTER the discovery that Escherichia coli could produce a pathogenic toxin,¹ toxigenic Esch. coli was identified as a major cause of childhood diarrhea in the less-developed parts of the world^{2 , 3} and as the leading cause of travelers' diarrhea.^{4 , 5} ...

Presentation of Case

A 47-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever and sweats.

He was in excellent health until four months earlier, when he began to have intermittent nonpleuritic pain in the right side of the chest that radiated to the ...

The median life expectancy hovers around 15 years throughout large segments of the developing world, which includes over two thirds of the world's population. Current estimates indicate that in the most densely populated areas of the world, about half the ...

IN the past 25 to 30 years, great progress has been made in the treatment of cancer. The method used to establish this progress has been the clinical trial. Cancer research and the clinical trial are both in an unstable state at present. The former is ...

Medullary sponge kidney is a disorder in which dilated collecting tubules (1 to 7.5 mm in diameter) are found in one or more renal papillae.¹ In the absence of complications, it is a benign, asymptomatic condition in which glomerular filtration is normal ...

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To the Editor: Case–control studies from Sweden report a fivefold to six-fold increased risk of soft-tissue sarcoma in lumberjacks exposed to herbicides containing phenoxyacetates.^{1 , 2} Long-term follow-up studies in cohorts of industrial workers ...

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To the Editor: William Curran and the Journal merit "the needle" for writing and publishing the article on acupuncture in the August 20 issue.¹ The article dealt with the Texas federal-court decision in Andrews vs. Ballard, which ruled that Texas ...

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Vivienne represents an unusual collaboration between a psychoanalyst, a teacher, and the immediate family of a 14-year-old girl who killed herself by hanging. Although Vivienne was never in psychiatric treatment — a tragic omission — her gifts as a ...

The Final Months is a culmination of an intensive study of 134 unselected suicides in the one-year period from 1956 to 1957. Robins describes each subject with a clear and concise case vignette. He set out to answer seven questions in relation to ...

Depression affects up to a quarter of the American population at any one time, if the figures contained in this book are accurate. From such a statistic, it might be concluded that a great number of people would want to read this book.

I suspect that this ...

Susan Sontag, in Illness as Metaphor, traces the conceptual evolution of ideas concerning the relation between character and disease. Historically, disease was believed "to fit character"; later it was thought "to express" it, and more recently it has ...

Cancer is a dreaded disease. This has been shown repeatedly by public-opinion polls, and it is not difficult to understand. The mortality rate continues to be high — over 50 per cent. The side effects of therapy are well known to the public: the ...

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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 ...

OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

An "Occupational and Environmental Health Summer Institute" for first- and second-year medical students will be held at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson, June 7-July 8. Stipends of $500 are ...