NAUSEA and vomiting are frequent and serious complications of cancer chemotherapy. The management of such side effects continues to be a major problem in cytotoxic drug therapy.¹ The commonly used "standard" antiemetics, such as prochlorperazine (...

IN 1978, in a study of the prognosis for 1739 survivors of myocardial infarction, we reported an elevated risk of death among men with low levels of education.¹ Patients from this cohort with little education who had complex ventricular premature beats ...

INFECTIONS of the urinary tract, most of which are associated with indwelling bladder catheters, account for over 40 per cent of all nosocomial infections. These infections are thought to give rise to as many as 60,000 cases of nosocomial bacteremia ...

THE acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the AIDS-related complex of generalized lympliadenopathy, fever, night sweats, weight loss, and diarrhea are most prevalent in homosexual men.^{1 2 3 4} Reported cases of high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in ...

PRETERM labor remains the most important cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. In this article we review our present understanding of the biochemistry and physiology of the myometrium and uterine cervix, particularly as they relate to the ...

PARAGONIMUS species native to the United States have been found commonly in animals.^{1 , 2} However, unlike the human illness associated with Paragonimus westermani in Asia, infection acquired in North or South America has rarely been documented in human ...

PERIPHERAL neuroepithelioma (peripheral neuroblastoma) is an uncommon malignant tumor of the peripheral nervous system with a histologic appearance similar to that of classical childhood neuroblastoma.^{1 2 3} In contrast to neuroblastoma, it typically ...

Presentation of Case

A 48-year-old immunosuppressed man was admitted to the hospital because of pneumonitis.

He was well until 12 years earlier, when hematuria and hypertension developed suddenly. He entered another hospital; bilateral nephrectomy was ...

Every affection of the mind that is attended with either pain or pleasure, hope or fear, is the cause of an agitation whose influence extends to the heart.

William Harvey, 1628¹

Written more than 350 years ago, Harvey's allusion to an intimate ...

IT must be tough to be a physician of middle or older years nowadays. With medical knowledge having a half-life of five years, each new batch of medical-residency graduates of whatever specialty seems more impressive, technologically competent, and drug-...

DEATHS

Ballou — John Bartlett Ballou, M.D., of Salem, died on April 25 at the age of 59.

Dr. Ballou received his degree from McGill University in 1952. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, and the American ...

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To the Editor: In his editorial on the use of vinca alkaloid–loaded platelets in the treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (April 19 issue),¹ Dr. Rosse refers to our paper² in suggesting that vincristine may be more effective than vinblastine ...

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To the Editor: In the April 19 issue, Goodman¹ reviewed the role of vitamin A and retinoids. No mention was made of the part played by liver ingestion in hypervitaminosis A. A historic mystery that remained unsolved for 55 years was posed when the ...

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When unlimited quantities of biosynthetic human growth hormone become available, how will physicians decide which children should receive therapy? Is it ethical to administer growth hormone to short children who are believed not to be deficient in the ...

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Emergency Medicine is the latest arrival in the now competitive market of new textbooks on emergency medicine. Edited by May, with contributions from 79 other authors who for the most part are specialists at Boston teaching hospitals (only two ...

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This is a timely review. Increasing numbers of surgical patients are immunodepressed, either because they have received an organ transplant or because they are undergoing cancer chemotherapy. The author has an excellent background to review the care of ...

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The collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of cancer data offer a challenge to health professionals who work with cancer registries or who deal with such data for hospitals and communities. This book provides a succinct summary as a guide ...

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts are now being accepted for the Pan American Conference on Fertility and Sterility to be held at the Camino Real Hotel in Ixtapa, Mexico, February 2–11. The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 1.

Contact Dr. Jerome J. ...

Independent forecasts suggest that despite all that is now being done to slow the growth of U.S. health-care costs — the enactment of prospective payment for Medicare (diagnosis-related groups [DRGs]); increasing enrollment in health-maintenance ...