AN inverse relation between serum cholesterol levels and the incidence or mortality of cancer of the colon, as well as other sites, has been suggested in men in several epidemiologic studies.^{1 2 3} In the Framingham Study, a cholesterol level of 190 mg per ...

OVER the past decade several reports have suggested that there may be a relation between low serum cholesterol levels and increased morbidity and mortality from cancer.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12} This relation has mainly been described for large-bowel ...

STUDIES of twins have been a classic way of distinguishing between environmental and genetic determinants of susceptibility to disease.¹ Such studies are of special value in disorders in which either the mode of inheritance or the nature of the ...

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS has been found to be relatively frequent in immunologically normal patients.¹ In published case reports, the source of the infection has usually remained unknown, but we have found the parasite in many patients who have had ...

DURING pregnancy, acute problems of the urinary tract, especially urinary calculi, are the most common cause of abdominal pain severe enough to require hospitalization. The incidence of urinary calculi during pregnancy varies from 1 in 715 to 1 in 2247 ...

SOLID tumors are composed of two discrete but interdependent compartments: the malignant cells themselves and the stroma that they induce and in which they are dispersed.^{1 , 2} In tumors of epithelialcell origin — carcinomas — a basement membrane is often ...

Presentation of Case

A 44-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of back pain, anemia, and an abnormal x-ray film of the chest.

The patient was well until six months earlier, when he began to experience low-back pain that gradually became more ...

Increasingly, the federal government sponsors medical research to resolve major public health issues. Government sponsorship of such research can take many forms, such as grants to university departments or individual investigators, contracts with private ...

Medical educators had hoped that increased elective time, decreased night call, ethics courses, and other efforts to address nontechnical issues and reduce stress in medical education would provide student physicians more time and encouragement for ...

To the Editor: The articles of Shea and Fullilove (Oct. 10, 1985, issue)¹ and of Keith et al. (Dec. 12, 1985, issue)² and subsequent correspondence on this subject (June 12 and July 3, 1986, issues) in the Journal have aroused considerable interest among ...

To the Editor: Bass et al. (July 10 issue)¹ recommend on-site, after-the-fact death-scene investigations of the deaths of infants who are dead on arrival at emergency rooms and whose cause of death is reported to be sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). ...

To the Editor: Having been participants in the clinical trials of Fluosol-DA, 20 percent, we share some of the concerns of Gould et al. (June 26 issue)¹ and agree with their warning not to take these results out of context. Unfortunately, their ...

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To the Editor: Over a 46-day period, 58 persons reported to the Massachusetts General Hospital Radiation Safety Bioassay Laboratory for measurement of iodine-131 in the thyroid. This free screening service was offered to travelers returning from Europe ...

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The editors of this book state that their goals were to clarify the uses of social science research, to illustrate how the social sciences have influenced our thinking about health care issues, and to underscore some promising and relevant areas for ...

This author is a surgeon steeped in clinical experience — balanced in his wisdom, generous with clinical pearls — and a scholar of the hospice movement in England and North America. His book is essential reading for those with a serious interest in ...

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The author states his theme in the introduction: "Good science and humane ethics are consonant and complementary." Humane ethics, in his view, encompasses meeting an animal's psychological and environmental needs in the very broadest sense. The book's ...

The behavior of the German medical profession as a whole and of some doctors in particular during the Nazi era provides a heinous example of how easily medicine can be politicized and perverted. Although only a small percentage of physicians replaced ...

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