Several hemodialysis centers have reported an increased mortality from cardiovascular diseases and have attributed it to atherosclerotic complications.^{1 2 3 4 5} Data from other centers suggest that mortality from cardiovascular causes among patients ...

Organisms of the genus cryptosporidium are parasitic protozoans (phylum, Apicomplexa; suborder Eimeriorina) that may inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of a variety of animals, including human beings. Closely related (taxonomically) coccidian parasites ...

Since the initial reports in 1980 by Canessa¹ and Garay² and their co-workers suggested that cation transport across red-cell membranes was different in patients with essential hypertension and in normotensive controls, a number of additional ...

LARYNGEAL papillomas are rapidly growing, noninvasive tumors that are located primarily on the vocal cords and epiglottis, but that can also involve the oral cavity, trachea, and lungs. They consist of connective-tissue stalks covered by well-...

Hereditary tyrosinemia (tyrosinemia Type I) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder that produces severe and usually fatal liver disease in infants and children. The cardinal biochemical features are increased levels of tyrosine and methionine in blood ...

On Thursday, February 28, 1980, during the second term of my exchange year in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury, I had just finished having my customary "elevenses" with a colleague when I noticed a small, brief, but quite ...

A RECENT report to the National Advisory Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Council (1979) estimated that approximately 2 million American adults have disorders of taste and smell. For 1975 and 1976 combined, a chemosensory problem was ...

Presentation of Case

A 4 9/12-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of sexual precocity.

She was born of a normal, full-term fifth pregnancy and delivery to a mother aged 30 years. Her birth weight was 3.6 kg. Her growth and physical and ...

Our well-being depends on our association with animals that share our environment. From cereals, pastures, and crop residues that cannot be digested by human beings, cattle, sheep, and goats produce valuable proteins and fats. Cattle, buffalo, horses, ...

The increasing cost of tuition is causing a crisis in most independent medical schools. The tuition increase has been accentuated by double-digit inflation, especially in health-related areas, and by the elimination of a federal program that provided ...

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To the Editor: In 1980 lung cancer replaced breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Washington State, according to information on death certificates filed with the State Health Division. Compared with the prediction in the 1981 ...

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To the Editor: We have previously reported that patients with acute unilateral optic neuritis can be subgrouped according to the presence of oligoclonal bands in cerebrospinal fluid.¹ Patients with this abnormality had other laboratory variables that ...

To the Editor: In a study of 11 patients treated for secondary acute nonlymphocytic leukemia with a high-dose cytarabine regimen, Preisler et al. report that 8 patients had complete remission, 2 had partial remission, and 1 died on the 23d day.¹ The ...

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To the Editor: The letter by Bogart and Jones about mislabeled cell-culture lines (Jan. 20 issue)* merits a response by the staff of the Human Genetic Mutant Cell Repository. Readers may have received the impression that several cultures ordered from the ...

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This is a brief textbook or manual on clinical cancer that is intended for physicians in practice and in all stages of training. It is also directed to members of the allied health professions — nurses, social workers, and the like — and to the lay ...

This book is, to my knowledge, unique in its attempt to collect in a single volume a plan for the follow-up and subsequent treatment of the recurrence of most malignant diseases. It is written as a manual for ready reference. An expert in the management ...

This is a textbook written by and for pelvic surgeons. The senior contributors have reviewed relevant literature in gynecologic, intestinal, urologic, plastic, and vascular surgery and have carefully formulated treatment plans proved over decades of ...

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Biomedical Science

Advances in Biotechnological Processes. Vol. 1. Edited by Avshalom Mizrahi and Antonius L. van Wezel. 344 pp., illustrated. New York, Alan R. Liss, 1983. $58.

American Drug Index 1983. Twenty-seventh edition. Edited by Norman F. Billups ...

"WOMEN AND POWER"

The annual meeting of Massachusetts Branch 39 of the American Medical Women's Association will be held at the Holiday Inn in Dedham on June 13 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Jean Baker-Miller will speak on "Women and Power."

Contact Dr. Asha Wallace, ...

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