Lysis of intravascular thrombi in pulmonary or peripheral veins and arteries can be effectively achieved by administration of thrombolytic agents.^{1 2 3} It has been well demonstrated by angiography that occluding coronary thrombi are present in 86 per cent ...

Myocardial infarction is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Western society. The prognosis after infarction appears to be closely related to the amount of remaining functional myocardium.¹ Approaches to limiting the infarct size include attempts ...

The majority of studies evaluating cimetidine or antacid have shown these drugs to be superior to placebo in promoting the endoscopic healing of duodenal ulcer.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} However, there is no clear consensus that either antacid^{7 , 8} or cimetidine^{9 10 11 ...}

The use of chromosome-banding techniques to identify metaphase chromosomes in hematopoietic colonies derived from marrow cultures from patients with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) offers an opportunity to study the extent of involvement of ...

A TUBE spacer is an extension tube that can be attached to a pressurized aerosol and interposed between the aerosol and the mouth of the patient (Fig. 1). Tube spacers were designed to make druginhalation therapy more simple and effective for patients ...

Neonatal intensive care results in both increased survival of low-birth-weight infants and increased costs for their care. Despite the high cost, an economic evaluation — in which the increment in health benefits resulting from neonatal intensive care is ...

Taste, Smell, and Food Intake

Taste and smell have a potent role in the control of intake, although the relation is not a simple one. It is clear that the ability to identify sodium chloride properly by taste in order to correct a salt deficiency is ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 12-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of renal failure.

He was well until two weeks earlier, when symptoms of an upper-respiratory-tract infection developed. One week later a throat culture yielded a ...

Acute myocardial infarction is a common manifestation of ischemic heart disease and a leading cause of admission to the acute-care facilities in community and university hospitals. Although the great variations in clinical outcome in this disease are ...

In this issue of the Journal, Isenberg and his associates¹ present an elegant multicenter trial, and there is no doubt about it — cimetidine leads to healing of gastric ulcer faster and more frequently than placebo. More important, the paper shows that ...

The quest to define the disease responsible for a patient's distress is important when the disease is acute or potentially remediable or both. Almost by definition, this search is not a dominant issue in the management of many chronic conditions, such as ...

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To the Editor: Champlin et al. (Jan. 20 issue)¹ report that approximately half their patients with moderate or severe aplastic anemia who were treated with antithymocyte globulin had substantial hematologic and clinical improvement, thus further ...

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Reading Fitzhugh Mullan's new book has been a strange experience. Although not brilliantly written, it is not an easy book to put down without guilt. On further reflection, it is more fascinating for what it does not say than for what it does.

Part of the ...

This is a collection of essays by eight authors whose common concern is illness, its effect on the ill person, and the need for more ethical humaneness in caring for the ill.

Two of the essayists are physicians; the others hold doctorates in philosophy or ...

More than 10 years ago, the author set out on an ambitious, impossible task: to examine the history of women in American science from 1820 to 1940. The subtitle now promises us a view of the women's struggles and strategies; the jacket promises us a ...

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The purpose of this book, in the authors' words, is "to expose some of the misbeliefs and fallacious notions that have and still permeate the area of nutrition and to introduce a common-sense, scientific approach to the subject." This is an ambitious and ...

Biomedical Science

Bacteremia: Laboratory and clinical aspects. (Bannerstone Division of American Lectures in Clinical Microbiology.) Edited by Albert Balows and Alex C. Sonnenwirth. 128 pp., illustrated. Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1983. $22.50.

SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

The fifth annual meeting of the Society will be held in Toronto, October 3–5.

Contact Ruth M. McDevitt, Society for Medical Decision Making, Radioisotope Laboratory, Mail Location 577, University Hospital, Cincinnati, ...