USERS of an intrauterine device (IUD) are at a greater risk than nonusers for the development of acute pelvic inflammatory disease, most cases of which represent the clinical manifestation of acute salpingitis.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} In turn, acute salpingitis may ...

EPIDEMIOLOGIC studies have linked pelvic inflammatory disease and the use of contraceptive intrauterine devices (IUDs).^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9} Since pelvic inflammatory disease may damage the fallopian tubes, an association between IUD use and subsequent ...

Although it was suggested that vitamin D may be involved in idiopathic infantile hypercalcemia^{1 2 3} soon after the disorder was first described,^{4 5 6 7} attempts to test this hypothesis^{8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15} have been hampered by the lack of a sensitive ...

PRIMARY hyperoxaluria is a rare genetic disorder due to increased endogenous production of oxalate and characterized by increased urinary oxalate excretion and recurrent calcium oxalate nephrocalcinosis, which in the past frequently led to chronic renal ...

MOST clinical trials of cimetidine have shown that 20 to 30 per cent of duodenal ulcers are unhealed after four weeks of treatment¹; a lower failure rate would be desirable, since unhealed ulcers may cause pain or complications. Omeprazole, a substituted ...

THIS study was designed to determine whether patients in the prepaid-group-practice form of health maintenance organization (HMO) who have a common chronic condition, rheumatoid arthritis, receive services that are quantitatively and qualitatively ...

THE serum bactericidal-activity test has been used for many years to monitor antibiotic therapy in the treatment of patients with infective endocarditis, osteomyelitis, bacteremia, or other serious bacterial infections. This test determines the greatest ...

Presentation of Case

A 14-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital after cardiopulmonary arrest.

She was well until 1 1/2 years earlier, when bronchial asthma developed and was managed with oral medications. Six months before admission normal menses ...

Despite the millions of dollars that have been spent in the past decade by various funding agencies to develop new contraceptive techniques, an ideal contraceptive, one that is completely effective without having adverse effects, has not been produced and ...

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is characterized by thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and fluctuating, often bizarre, neurologic abnormalities. Fever and renal failure are also prominent in some patients. The classic histologic ...

Bock — Arlie Vernon Bock, M.D., of Holden, died on August 11, at the age of 95.

Dr. Bock received his degree from Harvard Medical School in 1915. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Association of American Physicians, and the American ...

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To the Editor: Women with anorexia nervosa have been shown to have a reduced bone mass due to osteoporosis.¹ Rigotti et al. (Dec. 20 issue)² confirmed this finding and also discovered that a high level of physical activity may provide protection against ...

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To the Editor: In a recent paper in the Journal (Jan. 3 issue)¹ we reported the acceleration of growth in two children treated with human growth hormone–releasing factor. We stated that when a protein A separation technique was used, all the serum ...

To the Editor: Several peptide hormones have been described in the cerebrospinal fluid.¹ In a case of glucagonoma, immunoreactive cerebrospinal fluid glucagon levels have been reported.² Surprisingly, however, normal reference values for cerebrospinal ...

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Medicine, Science, and Society is a series of papers that were presented at the Harvard Medical School Bicentennial Celebration in 1982. The presentations were grouped into 10 symposia — each with a theme — 8 of which concerned research. These cover ...

To many Americans, the American Medical Association (AMA) is a bit like the Freemasons: an organization whose purposes are suspect and whose inner workings are mysterious. Apart from Fishbein's official history of the AMA (1947) and Garceau's more ...

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Over the past decade, business management in the private sector has become increasingly concerned about the rapid price escalation in health care. Alcoa Corporation, for instance, experienced a 23.4 per cent increase in health care costs from 1974 to ...

Many people have an opinion about home health care. Some view it as an underused service with the potential to provide humane, efficient, and effective care for specific groups of patients. Others dismiss it as yet another attempt by the "soft disciplines"...

As the American population ages and as the elderly require an increasingly large share of medical resources, long-term care is becoming a prime area of concern for physicians and policy makers. How today's long-term care institutions arose is thus of ...

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ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY

The First Asian-Pacific Conference, entitled "Doppler and Echocardiography," will be held in Tokyo, September 5–7.

Contact Dr. Pravin M. Shah, Cardiology Section (691/111E), Wadsworth VA Medical Ctr., Wilshire & Sawtelle Blvds., Los ...

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The nation's teaching hospitals, which have come under increasing pressures in recent years to change their traditional ways, face a future of reduced federal support and greater private insistence that they compete in the medical marketplace on the basis ...