The development of objective, noninvasive tests for venous thrombosis,¹ together with recent gains in the methodology of clinical trials, has made it possible to evaluate the long-term treatment of venous thrombosis. We previously reported the results of ...

Patients with recurrent supraventricular tachyarrhythmias occasionally become disabled because available pharmacologic agents are ineffective or poorly tolerated, and pacemaker techniques fail to control recurrences. In the absence of an accessory ...

Amygdalin has had many centuries of use for medical purposes, perhaps first documented by Dioscorides of Anazarbos shortly after the birth of Christ.¹ Usually administered in the form of bitter almonds, it was a common ingredient of herbal prescriptions ...

Recent studies^{1 2 3} have noted a rapid decline in perinatal mortality rates, after a period of stability during the 1950s and early 1960s. This decrease coincided with an unprecedented increase in the use of technology in obstetric and neonatal care. One ...

Captopril (D-3-mercapto-2-methylpropranoyl-L-proline [SQ 14,225, Capoten]) is the first orally active inhibitor of angiotensin-converting enzyme, the enzyme responsible for conversion of inactive angiotensin I to the potent pressor peptide angiotensin II. ...

Cold urticaria is a potentially life-threatening allergic disorder characterized by swelling and edema of exposed tissue in response to a cold stimulus, and occasionally associated with hypotension and cardiovascular collapse.^{1 2 3} This report presents ...

Presentation of Case

A 48-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of renal failure.

She was well until 11 days earlier, when she began to have peripheral edema, followed by fever, diarrhea, nausea, a transient sore throat, and considerable ...

Although anticoagulation is almost universally accepted as the preferred treatment for pulmonary embolism and for venous thrombosis in the lower extremities, its use is for the most part based on anecdotes and retrospective clinical surveys; data from ...

One of the lessons learned in the early days of open-heart surgery was how easily a surgeon could inadvertently create a complete atrioventricular block by damaging the bundle of His. Painstaking precautions have since been designed in order to identify ...

Over the past few years we have devoted a lot of attention to Laetrile.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} By 1978 it had achieved a certain folk status, celebrated as a kind of anti-establishment natural remedy being suppressed by a venal conspiracy between pharmaceutical ...

DEATHS

Black — Harry Black, M.D., of Lowell, died on November 1. He was in his 77th year.

Dr. Black received his degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1926. He was a member of the American Medical Association and a 50-year member of the ...

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To the Editor: We recently used intravenous calcium chloride to reverse an unfavorable hemodynamic response to verapamil.

A 76-year-old man, a smoker with a history of myocardial infarction, presented to the emergency department, reporting nausea and ...

To the Editor: Carroll et al. have demonstrated that in approximately half the patients with endogenous depression, plasma Cortisol is not suppressed (or shows an early escape from suppression) on the day after administration of 1 mg of dexamethasone.¹ ...

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To the Editor: The traditional practice of soaking iron nails in vinegar to produce a supplement of nutritional iron was found to have validity when subjected to scientific analysis and scrutiny.¹

Indochinese immigrants in California often consume ...

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To the Editor: We have documented the erosion of Medicare benefits to the deserving elderly (February 5 issue).¹ However, the restriction of the flow of oxygen to elderly Medicare recipients is about the last thing that we envisioned could happen under ...

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Time is short; medicine is long. Covering all of modern hospital medicine is like covering all of the ancient Sahara — even leaving aside the adequacy of ventilation. Commitments assail physicians' time for reading; the atomization of sources of facts, as ...

How does one review a hybrid? Should one concentrate on the new insights it presents and the new shape in which it appears, or should one criticize it for not having enough of the tried and true characteristics of either of its parents? Diagnostic ...

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This is an updated version of a practical aid to resuscitation originally published about 15 years ago for the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. The author has used his considerable expertise and much of his own original work in ...

Haagensen's book is a completely new work. The senior author is responsible for all of it except the discussion of biostatistics (by Carol Bodian) and one section about markers (by Darrow E. Haagensen, Jr.). His purpose is "to make available to physicians ...

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FAMILY PRACTICE

A family practice symposium will be held at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, February 22–27 and May 3–8. The fee is $325 or $70 per day.

Contact the Division of Continuing Education, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912; ...

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Since June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has learned of an increased occurrence of Kaposi's sarcoma, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and other serious opportunistic infections concentrated among homosexual men in the United States. After ...