DURING the past seven years, five studies have demonstrated an increased risk of Hemophilus influenzae type b disease among the siblings of patients with primary disease living in the same household.^{1 2 3 4 5} These studies have demonstrated that among ...

HEMOPHIL US influenzae type b is the most frequent cause of meningitis and other serious bacterial infections in children in the United States.¹ Young household contacts of patients with hemophilus disease have an increased risk of its development.² It ...

PREVIOUSLY, we reported the preliminary results of a randomized trial comparing endoscopic sclerotherapy with portacaval shunt surgery for active variceal hemorrhage in patients with Child Class C cirrhosis.¹ In that study, the 28 patients assigned to ...

GRAVES' disease is an autoimmune thyroid disorder characterized by T- and B-lymphocyte—mediated immune responses resulting in hyperthyroidism and lymphoid infiltration of the target organ.¹ Genetic susceptibility to the disease is linked to the ...

MARKED international differences in rates of breast cancer^{1 , 2} and striking increases among populations migrating from low- to high-incidence areas^{3 , 4} suggest that environmental factors, possibly dietary, strongly influence the occurrence of this ...

MEXILETINE was originally developed as an anticonvulsant drug. Its antiarrhythmic properties were quickly appreciated, however, and it is for this application that it is becoming available in clinical practice.^{1 2 3 4} The agent has been approved for use ...

Presentation of Case

A 58-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of confusion.

He was well until nine years earlier, when a large anterior mediastinal mass was found, and he was admitted to this hospital. At operation the mass was considered ...

With the first issue of this new year, the Journal celebrates its 175th anniversary. In January of 1812 Dr. John Collins Warren and his Boston friends launched the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science. ...

Times change. This trite but apt phrase can safely be applied to the study of autoimmune thyroid diseases, including Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis and its variants, to reflect the remarkable progress made during the past three decades. This ...

The introduction of a new medical treatment into clinical oncology has historically involved an institutional approach to drug development. Over the past 30 years, more than 500,000 compounds have been examined for anticancer activity; about 40 drugs (10 ...

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To the Editor: The recent dramatic drop in gasoline prices has prompted a number of economists and politicians to call for a national gasoline tax. It has been argued that the revenues of the tax could be used to pay off a substantial portion of the ...

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Although only 1 to 3 percent of all spinal-cord injuries occur in the population under 15 years of age, these injuries cause so many different problems and carry such devastating long-term consequences in this age group that this book is greatly needed. ...

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This book may prove to be the Rosetta stone that unlocks the specialized language and concepts of orthopedic surgery and interprets them for a wide professional audience, including radiologists, residents, and all physicians who treat skeletal injury.

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The first and second editions of Chandler and Grant's Glaucoma have become ophthalmologic classics. This edition, the first edition by Epstein, has retained the overall style of the previous edition. It reads easily, and its many interspersed case reports ...

Radiology

Normal Variants and Pitfalls in Imaging. Edited by James B. Vogler, III, Clyde A. Helms, and Peter W. Callen. 698 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1986. $95.

Notes on Radiological Diagnosis. By Lawrence S.W. Lau and John F. De ...

SEMINARS IN MEDICINE OF THE BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL, BOSTON

The following seminars will be held in January: "Oncogenes and Phosphatidylinositol Turnover" (Jan. 13); and "Bone Marrow Transplantation for Hematopoietic Malignancy" (Jan. 27).

UPDATE ON ENDOCRINE ...

These guidelines are in accordance with the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals." (The complete document is available in the June 12, 1982, issue of the British Medical Journal and the June 1982 issue of the Annals of ...