MAINTENANCE on neuroleptic medications has been amply demonstrated to reduce the incidence of psychiatric hospitalization during the first year after a florid episode of schizophrenia.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} So dramatic is this finding that some investigators have ...

HETEROZYGOUS alpha-thalassemia 2 is now known to have a high prevalence in black populations and would therefore be expected to occur in association with homozygous sickle-cell disease. Alpha-thalassemia lowers mean cell volume and intracellular ...

ASBESTOS is one of our most useful minerals. Over 3000 manufactured products of contemporary importance contain it. Asbestos is employed in construction materials because it is resistant to thermal and corrosive destruction and increases the tensile ...

ATENOLOL (Tenormin) and timolol (Blocadren) are two β-adrenoceptor antagonists recently released for clinical use in the United States (Fig. 1). They are the fourth and fifth systemic β-blockers to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the ...

AN assessment of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrcnocortical (HPA) function in patients with pituitary or hypothalamic disease is often necessary for estimating the risk that acute adrenal insufficiency will occur in response to severe stress, such as trauma, ...

OVER the past decade morbidity and mortality among very-low-birth-weight preterm infants decreased dramatically. With improved survival, a previously rare diagnosis — intraventricular hemorrhage — became increasingly common.¹ Introduction of the CT ...

CYSTINOSIS, a genetic disorder characterized by autosomal recessive inheritance, typically produces progressive renal disease and death during childhood.^{1 , 2} Many cystinotic tissues, including isolated leukocytes³ and cultured fibroblasts,⁴ have large ...

Presentation of Case

A 51-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of asthma and hemoptysis.

There was a history of bronchial asthma that began in childhood and was severe for the past 25 years. During the 10 years before entry she was admitted ...

Laetrile was moribund before Moertel et al. laid it to rest with the recent report of their prospective clinical trial.^{1 , 2} It had been replaced in popularity by an approach unusual in the annals of unorthodox cancer therapy — one that represents more of ...

During the past two decades, ill health resulting from exposure to asbestos has been the subject of intensive observation and research¹ — probably more intensive than research on any other environmental agent.² In the most direct target organ, the lung, ...

IT is now widely recognized that the major enrollment increases in United States medical schools that began in the early 1970s will produce a record number of yearly graduates in the coming decade, with a resulting increase in the number of physicians for ...

To the Editor: Harmful cardiorespiratory effects from timolol maleate in ophthalmic solution have been reported in adults^{1 2 3 4 5 6} but rarely in infants or children. A report on a neonate whose spells of apnea were associated with timolol⁷ suggests ...

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To the Editor: At present, technetium-99 pertechnetate (99mTc) seems to be the agent of choice for routine imaging of the thyroid. Of all the available agents, it gives the lowest radiation dose to the thyroid gland (the recommended administered activity ...

To the Editor: Antacids, when taken appropriately, are as effective as cimetidine in healing duodenal ulcers.¹ Many believe that antacids are the drug of choice in treating acute "acid-peptic" symptoms, esophageal reflux, and peptic-ulcer disease in ...

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To the Editor: The Sounding Board by Ruchlin et al. in the January 14 issue suggests several innovative approaches to the financing and delivery of long-term-care services.* One of the principal strategies suggested is the financing of local-area ...

To the Editor: The general principle of the computerized National Resident Matching Program (NRMP)¹ can be used to assign medical students to their third-year courses.

At Albany Medical College (Albany, N.Y.) a computerized algorithm was devised and ...

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This course consists of a 100-page booklet and four audiocassettes containing 10 lectures by the authors. The lectures generally follow the text very closely, but one short lecture by Dr. Linnemann on the psychological aspect of radiation has no ...

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During the past decade, the balance of decision-making power in the patient-physician relationship has shifted toward greater patient autonomy. At the same time, medical power over life and death has dramatically increased, and with it the moral ...

Literature is a collection of human experience and a description of the human condition. It has much to offer medicine. Both literature and medicine share a need to explore and understand the nature of man. Literature expands the physicans's view of the ...

Twenty years ago, when the computer was first introduced into clinical medicine, many clinicians and investigators perceived it as a data gobbler whose voracious appetite could handle all the facts they could generate. With computers, doctors imagined, ...

The receipt of these 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 new ...

MALNUTRITION

A symposium entitled "Malnutrition in U.S. Clinical Practice: The Clinician's Concern" will be held at the Earle Brown Center of the University of Minnesota in St. Paul on July 9 and 10. The fee is $100.

Contact the Office of Continuing ...

Modifying the present premedical and basic medical-science curricula is a difficult task. This portion of a physician's training has undergone little revision since the early 1900s, despite pleas for change from medical educators.¹ Substantial barriers ...