THE alcohol withdrawal syndrome, which occurs when a person stops ingesting alcohol after prolonged consumption, is characterized by behavioral features that include anxiety, agitation, and irritability, and neurologic features that include tremor, ...

PERSISTENT infection with measles virus is involved in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a rare chronic inflammatory disease of the human central nervous system. Nerve cells have been shown to contain paramyxovirus nucleocapsids,¹ and a hyper-immune ...

CARBAMAZEPINE is an effective anticonvulsant agent in children¹ and is advocated by some authors as the drug of choice for simple and complex partial seizures.² This drug is thought to be free of many adverse behavioral side effects normally attributed to ...

A PROGRESSIVE syndrome characterized by autistic behavior, dementia, gait ataxia, and loss of purposeful use of the hands accompanied by stereotyped hand movements was first described by Rett^{1 , 2} in 1966. Rett observed this characteristic combination ...

MOST human conceptions are believed to be aborted, for various genetic, developmental, and environmental reasons.¹ One of the most common developmental abnormalities among liveborn infants is a neural tube defect — i.e., myelomeningocele or anencephaly.² ...

BLACKS and other minorities continue to be underrepresented in medical schools in the United States. In 1980, 11.7 per cent of the population was classified as black, but blacks accounted for only 6.6 per cent of the total entering medical-school class, ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court first attained national prominence in medicolegal issues of obligations to critically ill patients in the Karen Ann Quinlan case. The high court in New Jersey issued an eminently sensible opinion in that case, allowing the ...

Presentation of Case

An 84-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of bloody diarrhea.

She was in a stable state of health until three weeks earlier, when diarrhea developed, with the daily passage of 10 to 12 purulent, blood-streaked stools ...

The alcohol withdrawal syndrome, with its wide range of clinical presentations, is readily identifiable yet often overlooked in the general hospital population. In some hospitalized patients, mild to moderate symptoms of alcohol withdrawal may not be ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication that alerted the medical world to the presence of viral nucleocapsids in nerve and glial cells of patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE).¹ This was followed by the important ...

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To the Editor: We were very interested in the report of Dr. Perlman and his colleagues concerning muscle relaxation and intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (May 23 issue),¹ but our own experience with ...

To the Editor: The article by Pell and Fayerweather (April 18 issue)* provides useful insight into the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease. Although the authors' two conclusions —that risk-factor reduction is primarily responsible for the ...

To the Editor: In their recent article on the pathogenesis of the dawn phenomenon, Campbell et al. (June 6 issue)¹ conclude that nocturnal surges of growth hormone were predominantly responsible for the progressive increase in glycemia that they observed ...

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To the Editor: Recent projections suggest an imminent surplus of physicians. An oversupply carries with it serious hazards: over-medicalization of patients, an increase in costs and in numbers of procedures, undesirable competition for patients, ...

To the Editor: I agree completely with Drs. Healy and Keyworth (May 30 issue)* that some proponents of NIH (National Institutes of Health) funding seem to suffer from paranoia and depression. These symptoms become apparent at their fullest at a ...

Continuous expansion of the content of general medicine and its specialties is recognized especially by those preparing for board examinations. Publication of multivolume, multiauthored review books in endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, ...

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Old classics never die — nor should they! This 12th edition of his textbook continues in the tradition Elliott Joslin began in 1916. It provides students, clinicians, and investigators with an updated resource on diabetes mellitus. This revision is a far ...

When one is reading a standard textbook of clinical medicine, a number of questions routinely arise in the course of its review. All too often these questions remain unanswered by the end of the book, and the reader is therefore forced to review other ...

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Advances in the treatment of infectious complications of neoplastic disease have outpaced advances in the treatment of most cancers. Exceptions are the acute leukemias and lymphomas, in which intensive immunosuppressive chemotherapy and radiation are ...

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Biomedical Science

Animal Stress. Edited by Gary P. Moberg. 324 pp. Bethesda, Md., American Physiological Society, 1985. $42.50. (Distributed in the U.S. by Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore.)

Biology of the Nerve Growth Cone. Edited by Stanley Kater and ...

CARDIOLOGY

The Louise von Hess Foundation for Medical Education will sponsor a seminar entitled "Coronary Heart Disease" in Lancaster, Pa., November 6 and 7.

Contact Dr. John H. Esbenshade, Jr., Louise von Hess Fdn. for Medical Education, 445 N. Duke St., ...

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Editor's note: In his Health Policy Report of November 29, 1984,* our Special Correspondent, John K. Iglehart, discussed the politically sensitive subject of congressional oversight of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His report focused on a bill ...