There is now little hope that malaria, which affects 100 to 300 million persons and may cause 1 million deaths per year,¹ can be adequately controlled without vaccines. Malaria is transmitted to humans by inoculation of sporozoites through the bites of ...

Intellectual handicaps are costly both emotionally and financially, and the costs span a lifetime. Primary and secondary preventive programs for some conditions associated with intellectual handicaps have been well accepted by the community and are cost ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a primary myocardial disease that is often transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16} and is characterized by a hypertrophied nondilated left ventricle. It is not known whether ...

Continuous intrapartum electronic monitoring of the fetal heart rate is considered by many clinicians to be superior to intermittent auscultation. The principal benefit claimed for continuous surveillance is earlier detection of fetal distress, which can ...

The cesarean birth rate in the United States tripled during the 1970s, reaching a nationwide average of 15.2 percent in 1978¹ and continuing to rise thereafter. The Consensus Development Conference of the National Institute of Child Health,¹ along with ...

Rape is a violent crime whose incidence is increasing rapidly. Although only 10 to 33 percent of cases of rape are reported, medical and paramedical personnel treat more than 81,000 rape victims in the United States each year.¹ Rape can be defined as ...

Infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, or HTLV-III/LAV) results in global immune dysfunction and leads to a breakdown in the ability of the host to mount an immune response, thereby facilitating unremitting infections by predominantly ...

Presentation of Case

A 70-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of fever of unknown origin.

She was in a stable state of health until eight weeks earlier, when she began to experience increasing fatigue. During the next two weeks a ...

The interest in the article¹ and letter² on malaria in this week's Journal stems from developments in research into malarial sporozoites that may lead to an effective vaccine. Anopheline mosquitoes inject sporozoites into humans during a blood meal. ...

Today's obstetricians are beleaguered hybrids of Don Quixote and King Canute. The windmills they tilt against are the buffeting forces generated by consumer groups, the government, third-party payers, and the legal system; among the tides they are asked ...

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To the Editor: Recently, concern has been raised over the health implications of the increasing use of snuff, especially by children and adolescents.¹ Snuff contains amounts of carcinogenic nitrosamines that exceed by orders of magnitude the nitrosamine ...

To the Editor: Pacific Northwest Bell is a Seattle-based telephone company with over 15,000 employees. On July 15, 1985, its management announced that a new smoking policy would go into effect on October 15 of that year. The new policy was so ...

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To the Editor: We have reported that a mouse monoclonal antibody directed against the circumsporozoite antigen and serum of mice immunized with recombinant and synthetic circumsporozoite peptides strongly inhibit the entry and development of Plasmodium ...

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Essentials of Medicine, first edited by Cecil, attempts to serve two principal purposes. According to the present editors, one is to present the "fundamental principles and practice of medicine that all medical graduates must know — at a length that can ...

This small book undertakes a difficult task: to provide medical students and practitioners with an understanding of the basics of medical genetics. The editors handle this assignment well. Despite its brevity, the book provides surprisingly complete ...

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This book attempts to present an update on an important area within the discipline of hematology. The progress recently made in the study of bone marrow transplantation makes such an effort timely. A number of excellent reviews of this subject have ...

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This book admirably achieves the editors' stated goal: "to provide the clinician with a fully referenced, integrated approach to patients with fluid, electrolyte, and acid–base disorders." Twenty-nine authorities from 11 medical schools have written well-...

Here is a series of current, concise statements on the management of specific problems. The goal of the editors was to provide busy practitioners with a collection of consultations in which each author provides unambiguous recommendations, stating ...

Both these books are intended for primary care physicians and medical students. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of books in this category, but these are two of the best. The first book here, that by Sauer, emphasizes the morphology of ...

The theme of this book is the effect of particular food constituents on behavior. Three sections review the effects that dietary carbohydrate and protein (and the timing of their ingestion) have on work performance. They also cover the possible value of ...

Special Services

How to Analyze Clinical Research Reports. By Myrton F. Beeler and Robert W. Sappenfield. 115 pp., illustrated. Chicago, American Society of Clinical Pathologists Press, 1986. $18.

Invasive Procedures in Critical Care. (Clinics in Critical ...

RECOMMENDED CHANGE IN TERMINOLOGY OF AIDS VIRUS

The International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses has approved a subcommittee's proposal to use the term "Human Immunodeficiency Viruses (HIV)" for the retroviruses recently implicated as the cause of ...