NEARLY half the antibiotics sold in the United States are given to animals, most of which are eaten by people.¹ Antibiotics are given to animals to treat and prevent disease, and low concentrations are given to promote growth. One of the persisting ...

THE importance of cytomegalovirus (CMV) as a human pathogen relates to its propensity to produce disease in persons with impaired or immature cellular immune responsiveness. Such diseases include congenital mental retardation¹ and serious disseminated ...

MANY agree that providing responsibly and humanely for the poor will be one of the most sensitive and stressful issues of this decade. A worsening national economic situation has led the public to place a much lower priority on the provision of health ...

THE catecholamines norepinephrine and epinephrine are key regulators of many physiologic events in human beings; norepinephrine acts primarily as a neurotransmitter released from sympathetic-nerve terminals, and epinephrine functions as a circulating ...

METHODS for prenatal diagnosis of sickle-cell anemia are improving rapidly.¹ Initially the diagnostic procedure required fetal blood sampling, but new techniques for restriction-endonuclease analysis of DNA now permit the use of amniocentesis. A ...

DETECTION of sickle hemoglobin in the human fetus was first accomplished nearly 10 years ago.^{1 , 2} This marked the beginning of a technology for prenatal diagnosis of the hemoglobinopathies. When methods for acquisition of fetal blood and for analysis of ...

VARIEGATE porphyria is inherited as an autosomal dominant disorder with the clinical characteristics of cutaneous involvement and acute attacks, although these features do not always accompany one another and many who carry the gene are asymptomatic ...

Presentation of Case

A 70-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of lethargy and anorexia.

There was a long history of alcohol abuse and heavy smoking. Sixteen years before admission diagnoses of fatty liver and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome were ...

WE usually diagnose genetic disorders, not by detecting abnormal genes, but by detecting the results of the abnormal genes' actions. Sickle-cell anemia, for example, is diagnosed by demonstrating aberrant properties of β-globin caused by the substitution ...

IN several recent decisions,* the National Transportation Safety Board has issued orders to the Federal Aviation Administration for medical certification of pilots with surgically treated coronary-artery disease, thus returning them to active flight ...

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To the Editor: The paper by Williams and Chen¹ in the January 28 issue contrasts some of the relations between cesarean births and reductions in adverse outcomes of pregnancy in California with the results of the analysis of data from New York City, ...

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Most of this book was written by a surgeon with vast experience (both military and civilian) in the treatment of trauma. He has also written extensively on shock, including its various forms, underlying mechanisms, types of treatment, toxic factors, and ...

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Now that a medical book costs more than 10c̷ a page, one hopes to justify the expense of substantial, scholarly hard-cover textbooks — particularly if the pace of innovation soon renders them out of date. The study of peripheral vascular disease evolved ...

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In this new textbook the editors and authors-provide a thorough and contemporary compendium of the scientific foundation of current medical practice. It is more than a new book. It is a novel approach to the presentation of pathophysiology. Encompassing ...

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts are now being accepted for the annual joint scientific meeting of the American Pancreatic Association and the National Pancreatic Cancer Project. The meeting will be held at the Ambassador West Hotel in Chicago on November 4 and ...

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The American medical-care system is caught in a tightening bind between society's limited resources and its open-ended commitment to provide the poor and elderly ready access to tax-financed care through Medicaid and Medicare. Society's agent, the ...

These guidelines are in accord with the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals." (The complete document is available in the June 12, 1982, issue of the British Medical Journal and the June 1982 issue of the Annals of ...