Since the pioneering observation of Avery and Mead¹ that surface activity of pulmonary surfactant was decreased in the airways of infants dying of hyaline membrane disease, and the finding by Adams and coworkers² that airway secretions from such infants ...

Endemic cretinism constitutes the principal public health problem associated with iodine deficiency.^{1 , 2} This syndrome has two clinical presentations.³ Neurologic cretinism is characterized by mental deficiency, spastic diplegia, an ataxic gait, abnormal ...

Neonatal infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV) is often life-threatening and causes severe morbidity among some infants despite antiviral therapy.^{1 , 2} HSV infection in the newborn usually results from exposure to the virus in the maternal genital ...

The predominant cyclooxygenase metabolite of arachidonic acid in the mast cell is prostaglandin D2. After the initial characterization of the release of prostaglandin D₂ from pleural and peritoneal mast cells in rats,¹ the discovery of massive ...

Although recent years have witnessed increased efforts to prevent psychoactive drug dependence among physicians, progress is hampered by the absence of a clear picture of how many physicians and medical students use or abuse psychoactive drugs. All 50 ...

Accurate estimation of the risk of cancer in the general population resulting from diagnostic radiography has been limited by a lack of information relating the ages of patients to the numbers and types of the radiographic examinations they received. In a ...

Presentation of Case

A 73-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of anorexia and weight loss.

He was in excellent health until 10 months earlier, when a chronic cough developed and was productive of small amounts of clear sputum. Five months ...

Normal lung function depends on the presence of an alveolar lining layer with properties that permit a decrease in surface tension at end-expiration and an increase in surface tension on lung expansion, thus preventing atelectasis at the end of expiration ...

We are now experiencing a high level of public concern about drug use and its consequences in our society. President Reagan has declared a war on drugs, which includes controversial proposals for widespread urine testing. Tougher sanctions have been ...

Each year some 160 million Americans undergo approximately 250 million diagnostic x-ray examinations. Therefore, it is not surprising that the possible danger associated with such exposures arouses passionate interest, as well as controversy, in both ...

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To the Editor: Over the past year and a half, the Journal has devoted a number of pages to the beneficial effects of omega-3 fatty acids in marine oils on serum cholesterol and triglycerides and on the immunologic function of neutrophils and monocytes.^{1 ...}

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To the Editor: Amphotericin B is often used empirically in the treatment of patients who are granulocytopenic after chemotherapy and have fever that is unresponsive to broad-spectrum antibacterial agents.¹ Pulmonary toxicity, manifested as acute dyspnea, ...

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In this book the authors analyze physicians' responses to Medicare. The data come from a 1973 national sample of 2700 physicians, 1300 house officers, and 3400 medical students, as well as practitioners in New York State who were studied between 1964 and ...

Unlike many collections of essays on a given topic, this book has a very even and high level of historical competence. All history has an ideological bias. In this book, the bias is made clear and is shared by all the contributors. Unfortunately, it is ...

Unless one is married to a lawyer (I'm not) or is the son of one (I am), good legal advice is hard to come by in clinical medicine. Pediatrics is a specialty particularly fraught with legal uncertainties. Almost every pediatrician has had to deal with one ...

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire, But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

The poet, ...

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

The following courses will be offered by the Center: "Review of Medical Mycology" (Oct. 20, 22, 27, and 29); "Sonography" (Oct. 27–29); and "The 5th Annual Symposium on Interventional Radiology" (Oct. 30 and 31).

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