DEAFNESS or some degree of hearing impairment is the most common serious complication of bacterial meningitis in infants and children. Retrospective and, more recently, prospective studies indicate that some 5 to 30 per cent of cases involve such an ...

THE relation between vigorous exercise and the risk of sudden cardiac death has long been the subject of controversy.^{1 , 2} On the one hand, myocardial ischemia, cardiac arrhythmias, and sudden death seem to occur with unusually high frequency during ...

SEVERE allergic reactions to hemodialyzers have been reported in patients undergoing hemodialysis.^{1 2 3 4 5} These reactions range from severe urticaria and angioedema to life-threatening bronchospasm, hypotension, and cardiopulmonary collapse, and they ...

COUGHING is a common symptom and affects everyone at some time. Studies of animal models have shown that coughing is a reflex with the afferent nerve endings situated within the central airways. Experimentally, both mechanical and chemical stimuli have ...

THE continually rising cesarean birth rate is of increasing concern to both the profession^{1 2 3} and the public.⁴ In the United States the rate nearly tripled between 1970 and 1978 (from 5.5 to 15.2 per 100 deliveries),⁵ and in Canada it more than doubled⁶ ...

THE techniques of DNA and antibody cloning developed during the past decade are now being used successfully to solve a variety of clinical problems. Within the field of infectious diseases, practitioners can expect improved diagnostic tests and new ...

WHIPPLE'S disease is often associated with pancarditis, which may result in major valvular dysfunction.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} We describe a patient in whom Whipple's disease also involved the porcine leaflets of a Carpentier–Edwards prosthetic cardiac valve that ...

Presentation of Case

A 33-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain and hematochezia.

There was a four-year history of crampy lower abdominal pain and the passage of loose, brown stools that occurred before menses. A barium-...

Fifty to 70 years ago, in the era before the introduction of the sulfonamides and antibiotic agents, relatively meager attention was given to the neurologic complications and sequelae of bacterial meningitis. The mortality from this disease was so ...

IN this issue of the Journal, Siscovick and co-workers¹ report that vigorous physical exercise both protects against and provokes sudden cardiac death. The risk of cardiac arrest during vigorous physical activity was transiently increased, especially in ...

Long-term hemodialysis for the therapy of endstage kidney disease has dramatically altered the otherwise fatal outcome of progressive renal disease. Clinical experience and technologic advances have reduced many of the difficulties and hazards associated ...

Access to health care was the centerpiece of federal health policy and legislation in the 1960s and 1970s. Government programs designed to improve access focused on health-manpower shortages and maldistribution, the development of public, rural, and urban ...

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To the Editor: It is well established that endocrine deficiencies occur after radiotherapy for tumors of the head and neck; growth hormone deficiency is the most frequent consequence.^{1 , 2} We have shown that gonadotropin deficiency can occur and can ...

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To the Editor: Jacobson et al. (June 7 issue)¹ report on an interesting and provocative case in which the clonality of hematopoietic cells appeared to be maintained even after hematologic remission was achieved in a heterozygote for glucose-6-phosphate ...

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To the Editor: Dr. Meltzer questions the manner in which the institutional review board at the University of Utah approved the consent form for the first patient to receive an artificial heart (July 5 issue).¹ He suggests that the conflict of interest ...

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Interferon, a biologically active protein that was discovered 27 years ago and yet is still incompletely understood, may be looked at through a history of its reviews.

In 1962 I wrote the first comprehensive review (in the Journal), consisting of 16 pages ...

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Any book with as many good pictures as the third edition of Lionel Fry's textbook is bound to engender love at first sight among beginning students of dermatology. Of 571 color pictures (an average of more than 3 per page), not more than a handful are ...

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CHRONIC ILLNESS AND AGING

The 2nd Annual Chronically III and Aging Course will be held at the Hilton Inn West in Oklahoma City, October 18–20. The fee is $150.

Contact Mrs. Cherie Tompkins, V.A. Medical Ctr., 921 N.E. 13th St., Oklahoma City, of 73104; or ...