THE diarrhea that develops when persons travel from the industrialized world to developing regions is now known to be due to bacterial agents in most cases.^{1 2 3} Strains of Escherichia coli that produce heat-stable or heat-labile enterotoxins (often both) ...

ALTHOUGH ethanol is widely used for its mood-altering effect, it is a toxic substance that directly or indirectly causes impairment of cellular function in every organ of the body. Within the bone marrow, no cell line is impervious to the influence of the ...

EPIDEMIOLOGIC studies have demonstrated that serum lipoprotein concentrations are strongly predictive of the risk of atherosclerotic heart disease. The incidence of coronary events has been shown to be positively associated with low-density-lipoprotein (...

MEDICARE coverage in nursing homes has been described as a "broken promise" by Loeser and his colleagues, who cite examples of variation and unpredictability in the administration of the law.¹ The work of Adler and Brown² supports this conclusion. They ...

ORGANIC voice disorders are common, and their management is usually simple. Most people have experienced hoarseness with an upper-respiratory infection and know that treatment requires only time and the common-sense avoidance of vocal excess and other ...

IN comparison to other highly vascular organs, the liver has a limited ability to autoregulate blood flow in the presence of hypotension.¹ This may have important consequences for the clearance of drugs that are highly extracted by the liver, such as ...

CALCIUM ions have a key role in the excitation as well as the contraction of cardiac muscle fibers.^{1 2 3} Calcium also influences the renal excretion of sodium.^{4 , 5} The importance of sodium retention in the pathogenesis of congestive heart failure has ...

Presentation of Case

A 59-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of delirium and dyspnea.

He was well until 10 months earlier, when there was the abrupt onset of dyspnea at rest as well as on exertion. He was admitted to another hospital, where ...

Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels. The naive voyager is initiated to many unexpected pleasures and experiences, but a not infrequent accompaniment to such adventures is a bout of debilitating diarrhea. Annually, more than 250 million people ...

Caring for the severely impaired elderly is a social problem of serious and growing proportions. This article describes and analyzes nursing-home care in the United States with particular emphasis on economic aspects and their implications for public ...

Anyone who has been involved with long-term care of the frail elderly for more than a very short time can only be heartened by the increasingly enlightened public discourse on this subject. Articles such as Rango's in this issue of the Journal ¹ or those ...

To the Editor: Microcomputers are being used increasingly in the home for recreational and educational activities. To avoid the high cost of a video display terminal, many consumers purchase a less expensive microcomputer, which is then attached to a ...

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To the Editor: The increased rate of Kaposi's sarcoma among young homosexual men in the United States and Denmark has drawn considerable attention to the prevalent use of organic nitrites as a sexual stimulant¹ and as a relaxation reagent for the smooth ...

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To the Editor: Double-blind clinical studies^{1 , 2} on the effects of cereal grain-free, milk-free diets on schizophrenics have supported Dohan's hypothesis that wheat and milk proteins may have a pathogenic role in this disease. Dohan³ and Zioudrou and ...

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Properly speaking, these volumes are neither a single book nor are they meant for the hand. Instead, they are lineal descendants of the German handbuch tradition, in which a scholarly and encyclopedic view is taken of a central issue in science. Motor ...

The editors state that the three volumes are intended as a "comprehensive source" that will serve as a reference handbook for professionals in "speech–language pathology, audiology, and speech and hearing sciences." The chapters included have clearly been ...

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Johns Hopkins is a traditional font of neuro-ophthalmologic authorship. First was Walsh's text (1947), followed by a second edition (1957) of large dimension. The third edition (1969), written in collaboration with Hoyt, was inevitably a multivolume ...

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BEHAVIORAL SIDE EFFECTS OF CANCER TREATMENT

A program entitled "Controlling the Behavioral Side Effects of Cancer Treatment" will be held in San Francisco on October 15; in Houston on October 29; in New York on November 12; and in Atlanta on December 3. ...

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AT the invitation of Polish colleagues and with the approval of the Polish Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, I returned to Poland for 11 days in June 1982, one year after a longer visit in 1981 and six months after the establishment of martial law. ...