OPEN-LOOP insulin-infusion pumps and home glucose monitoring have been used to achieve striking improvement in the control of diabetes in small numbers of highly supervised patients.^{1 2 3} The feasibility of applying these techniques to large numbers of ...

THE long-term survival of patients who undergo curative surgery for peptic ulcer has attracted relatively little recent attention.¹ In 1958 Krause showed that patients tended to die prematurely in the years after Pólya gastrectomy²; the major contributors ...

LITTLE information is available in the medical literature regarding the natural history and prognosis of patients who have an unprovoked first seizure. Without an understanding of this course, a rational plan for therapy, evaluation of the results of ...

WOODROW Wilson is ranked among the great presidents of the United States, but he is an enigmatic figure to historians and political scientists because his career repeated a pattern of brilliant success followed by acrimonious battle with rivals and ...

Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

Because of its varied presentations, multiple causes, and high mortality rate, acute mesenteric ischemia remains a very difficult clinical problem. Its complexity in part reflects the fact that although obstruction of mesenteric ...

HEREDITARY fructose intolerance is an inborn error of metabolism characterized by abdominal pain, vomiting, and hypoglycemia, which follow the ingestion of fructose.¹ The disorder is associated with a deficiency of aldolase B in the liver, kidney, and ...

TRANSLUMINAL balloon angioplasty has been increasingly accepted as a nonsurgical technique for dilatation of stenotic arteries in the peripheral, renal, and coronary circulations.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} The physical principles governing balloon angioplasty⁷ depend on ...

Presentation of Case

A 72-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of the recent onset of atrial fibrillation.

Five years earlier hypertension was found, with a Grade 2 systolic ejection murmur at the cardiac apex that radiated to the carotid ...

IN this issue of the Journal, Ross and his colleagues¹ confirm previous reports of an increase in late mortality after surgery for peptic ulcer. They found that life expectancy was shortened by a mean of nine years in 779 Scottish men who were followed ...

BY now it is difficult to argue against the proposition that the cost of health care is too high. The question is, What can be done about it? More to the point, Who is capable of doing something about it?

Although the problem has received substantial ...

DEATHS

Hopkins — Stanford William Hopkins, M.D., of Marblehead, died on May 12. He was in his 76th year.

Dr. Hopkins received his degree from Harvard Medical School in 1933. He was a member of the American Medical Association.

LEARY — Howard Leo Leary, ...

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To the Editor: For many years, pharmacologists have been concerned about the occurrence of myocardial necrosis in animals after the administration of beta-adrenergic agonists.^{1 2 3} Recently, a warning in the FDA Drug Bulletin noted adverse cardiac ...

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To the Editor: Alterations in subpopulations of T lymphocytes appear to be important in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. In particular, suppressor T cells in peripheral blood fluctuate with the clinical stage of disease when measured either by ...

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To the Editor: There have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to identify the carrier state for Huntington's disease in asymptomatic patients. A test that has attracted interest is based on the observation that levodopa can induce choreiform movements in ...

To the Editor: Following study subjects over many years is often difficult because people tend to drop out of sight — by changing residence, for example. For study subjects who have died, in contrast, it is comparatively easy to obtain information about ...

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To the Editor: Current legislative efforts to ban therapeutic abortion focus on the argument that at some point the fetus in utero is a living human being entitled to the protection of law granted to all "persons." Surely this point occurs sooner than at ...

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Many books describing the application of methods or techniques to clinical practice state their case as though the availability of a technique mandated its use and as though the authors' familiarity with a particular technique proved its manifest ...

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The profound impact of arterial, venous, and microcirculatory thromboembolism on mortality and morbidity affects decision making in most medical and surgical specialties. The importance of this statement is dramatized by the wealth of new information ...

Certain pictures communicate in a lasting way that transcends the written word. Even people who were not alive at the time they happened can share, through successful photojournalism, the impact of the Hindenberg explosion or of the shooting of a ...

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Basic Science

Advances in Microbial Physiology. Vol. 23. Edited by A. H. Rose and J. Gareth Morris. 268 pp. New York, Academic Press, 1982. $43.50.

Biological Adaptation. (International Symposium Marburg/Lahn.) Edited by Gunther Hildebrandt and Herbert ...

"SEXUAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL PRACTICE"

A symposium entitled "Sexual Issues in Medical Practice" will be held at the University of California–San Francisco on September 24 and 25. The fee is $145.

Contact PCE Registration, Langley Porter Institute Box 2nd, ...

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CMSS — A National Medical Federation

The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) is a unique federation of 24 national medical societies, each of which represents a recognized specialty in medicine.* The CMSS and the American Medical Association (...