CASES of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were first recognized in homosexual men and in persons who abused drugs intravenously, suggesting a pattern of occurrence similar to that of hepatitis B in the United States.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} Reports of ...

ACQUIRED immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been reported in previously healthy homosexual men, intravenous-drug abusers, patients with hemophilia, Haitians, and female sexual partners of patients with AIDS.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10} The increasing incidence ...

MANY textbooks^{1 2 3} suggest that the case-fatality rate for patients with typhoid fever has been less than 2 per cent since the introduction of chloramphenicol in 1948.⁴ This is often the case,^{5 , 6} but numerous reports from Asia and Africa have ...

THE major-histocompatibility-complex (MHC) genes are located on the short arm of chromosome 6. Genes of the MHC code for two classes of polymorphic cell-surface glycoproteins of the HLA system: the Class I genes, which define the serologically determined ...

RECENTLY, MacMahon et al. found that urinary levels of the three most important endogenous estrogens were about 30 per cent lower in smokers than in nonsmokers during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle.¹ They suggested that a sustained reduction in ...

IN recent years, the monetary and nonmonetary costs associated with the overuse of new and existing technologies have aroused increasing concern throughout the health-care system.^{1 2 3} As a result, a large body of work addresses the appropriate use of ...

SERUM osmolality is a simple and widely available laboratory measurement, but its specific usefulness in clinical medicine is often misunderstood. The test for serum osmolality is ordered most commonly to assist in the evaluation of hyponatremia.^{1 2 3 4 5} ...

Presentation of Case

A 47-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of right hemiplegia.

He was well until 19 years earlier, when diplopia developed. During the next two years the diplopia waxed and waned, and he complained on several occasions of ...

In 1943 Beeson¹ first reported jaundice in patients who had received blood or plasma transfusions and suggested that their illness resembled infectious hepatitis. Now, some 40 years later, the transmission of hepatitis by at least four different blood-...

Typhoid fever is almost always acquired by ingestion of food or water contaminated with excreta from a patient with typhoid or from a carrier.¹ Human beings are the only reservoir of Salmonella typhi, and control of typhoid fever has been achieved in many ...

Looking at the appointment book for July 12, 1978, I notice that Barb Daily will be in today for her first prenatal examination. "Wonderful," I think, remembering my joy as I helped her deliver her first child two years ago. Barb and her husband Russ are ...

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To the Editor: A designated blood donation occurs when a person, A, gives blood for the exclusive use, in case of need, by another person, B. In certain instances, this form of blood collection and transfusion is accepted by the blood-banking community. ...

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To the Editor: Jenkins correlates a standardized cancer-mortality ratio for males with 130 social variables (Feb. 17 issue).¹ Using Kendall's tau as the measure of correlation, 30 correlations were judged significant at P = 0.01 (tau 3=0.30). However, ...

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Here is a compendium of 19 short essays, in three sections: "The Typical Physician," "The Troubled Physician," and "The Minority Physician." It touches on almost every social phase of life that can be connected with doctors. The usefulness of such a ...

This fine book is based on the authors' experience as directors of an emergency-treatment center, a clinical organization connected with a mental-research institute. The theoretical orientation of the book reflects mental-research institutes' social (...

In Madness and Government, a former administrator of the Health Resources Administration and a former associate director for behavioral medicine at the National Institute of Mental Health trace the growth of a "national mental health enterprise" over the ...

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These books illustrate two approaches to publishing in the field of medical ethics. Abortion and the Status of the Fetus provides a sustained and focused analysis of a single concept, personhood, and elaborates on the implications of that analysis for ...

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With the microcomputer revolution well under way, it is hard to avoid giving attention to the new and alternate means now available for the dissemination of information. The particular computer program described in this book is distributed by a new ...

The foremost medical essayist of our time has written a new book.

Like his other collections, it is a small work, containing 24 essays. None of the essays is published here for the first time; some of the ideas are by now familiar to aficionados: "Seven ...

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THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE

A symposium on Thromboembolic Disease will be held at the Town and Country Hotel in San Diego on January 28. The fee is $50.

Contact the Continuing Medical Education Office, Grossmont District Hospital, 5555 Grossmont Ctr. Dr., La ...