It has been suggested that the low death rate from coronary heart disease among the Eskimos of Greenland may be explained by their high fish consumption.¹ The average per capita fish consumption of the Eskimos is estimated to be about 400 g per day.² Low ...

THE low incidence of coronary heart disease and thrombosis in Greenland Eskimos has stimulated interest in the possible protective nature of their unusual diet.^{1 2 3 4 5} Traditionally, most of their food has consisted of seal, whale, and fish. Although ...

Arachidonic acid released from membrane phospholipids during cell activation is metabolized by the cyclooxygenase pathway to prostaglandins and thromboxane, and by the 5-lipoxygenase pathway to leukotrienes.^{1 , 2} In the 5-lipoxygenase pathway, arachidonic ...

During the first week after repair of coarctation of the aorta, severe systemic hypertension often develops. This so-called paradoxical hypertension¹ usually resolves spontaneously if repair has been satisfactory. There are two distinct phases to the ...

The prevalence of a history of penicillin allergy in the U.S. population is estimated to be between 5 and 10 per cent.^{1 , 2} Patients with infections who have histories of prior reactions are usually treated with alternative antibiotics. However, in some ...

The total cost of graduate medical education may include not only the direct costs of residents' salaries and associated administrative expenses but also the indirect costs of additional and more costly services provided to patients as a result of the ...

In our rheumatologic clinics the diagnosis of idiopathic "normal"-pressure hydrocephalus has been made in six patients during the past three years. This disorder is characterized by the triad of gait disturbance, urinary incontinence, and dementia, all ...

Presentation of Case

A 46-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of cough, dyspnea, and obstruction of the right pulmonary artery.

She was well until six months earlier, when she began to have a hacking cough, which was briefly productive and ...

Three studies published in this issue of the Journal support the possibility that the consumption of fish may be of special benefit to human health. One of the studies¹ shows that the consumption offish by a group of Dutch men correlated inversely with ...

Just 20 years ago, normal-pressure hydrocephalus was established as a clinical entity by Adams and colleagues in a landmark article in the Journal. ¹ The clinical features include the triad of dementia, gait disorder, and urinary incontinence associated ...

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To the Editor: Recently, there have been reports of AIDS from central Africa.^{1 2 3 4} Clumeck et al.⁴ have suggested that the disease there may signify that the causative agent of AIDS is endemic in Africa. Evidence is also accumulating implicating HTLV-...

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To the Editor: We wish to report a preliminary observation suggesting the arrest of hemolysis in favism by a single injection of the iron chelator deferoxamine (desferrioxamine). Favism, a severe hemolytic anemia occurring in the Mediterranean type of ...

To the Editor: Dr. Barranger's comments in the Dec. 20 issue¹ omitted important aspects of the original proposal² that displacement bone marrow transplantation (DBMT) might correct at least 53 fatal genetic diseases. As of December 1984, it was known ...

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To the Editor: Verapamil, a slow calcium-channel blocker widely used in medical practice, has recently been proposed as a treatment for psychiatric disorders, including depression and manic-depressive illness.¹ The foundation for this proposal involves ...

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To the Editor: There are many recognized physical risks to the serious runner, ranging from external attacks by birds of prey¹ to occult internal bleeding.² Recent experience with two patients led us to suspect that yet another malady may be associated ...

To the Editor: Members of Congress rely on their legislative aides to provide detailed background analyses of pending legislative issues. A landmark survey conducted by Grupenhoff* in 1983 revealed that although such persons usually have a strong ...

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A 40-year-old nullipara with an uncomplicated antepartum course entered labor spontaneously at 41 weeks' gestation. During early labor, the placenta suddenly detached. An emergency cesarean section was started less than 10 minutes after the onset of fetal ...

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In reviewing these two textbooks of immunology, edited by Hood et al. and by Stites et al., I thought it would be helpful to have the opinions of members of my laboratory who were at different stages in their training. Therefore, I asked three members of ...

Immunology is moving fast from a field noted for convoluted descriptions of little-understood phenomena to a coherent biologic system whose mechanisms are understood at the molecular level. This rapid evolution means that there is an urgent need for ...

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The first of these two books is the second edition of a textbook that has become one of the five leading English-language works on clinical dermatology. The second edition has 76 contributing authors, which makes the book quite authoritative. However, ...

For those who have sought a systemic rather than a regional textbook, Gray's Anatomy has been available since 1858 and in an American edition since 1859. Since then, its 750 pages have doubled in number. In these days of internationally accepted anatomic ...

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Biomedical Science

Adult Heart Muscle Cells: Isolation, properties and applications. (Supplement to Basic Research in Cardiology, Vol. 80 [1985].) Edited by H.M. Piper and P.G. Spieckermann. 166 pp., illustrated. New York, Steinkopff/Springer-Verlag, ...

STUDY OF THE LIVER

The 20th Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver will be held at the Dipoli Congress Center in Helsinki, Finland, August 29–31.

Contact Mrs. Keena Antikainen, EASL, c/o The Finnish Medical Society Duodecim, ...