IN a national survey conducted in the late 1970s,¹ 40 percent of U.S. children under five years of age had blood lead levels above 20 μg per deciliter. Among city-dwelling black children, the figure approached 60 percent. A variety of enzymatic and ...

AN etiologic association between benzene and leuL kemia was suggested by a series of case reports beginning more than 50 years ago.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} Those clinical observations were corroborated subsequently by epidemiologic studies^{5 , 7 8 9 10 11} and, more ...

MARROW transplantation is being explored as an alternative to blood transfusions and chelating therapy for patients with thalassemia.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8} Thomas and coworkers postulated that transplantation early in the course of the disease would result in a ...

EMPHYSEMA is a chronic disorder of the lower respiratory tract, characterized by enlargement of the air spaces distal to the terminal bronchioles that results from destruction of the alveolar walls.^{1 , 2} The purest form of emphysema is found in adults ...

BY December 1986, over 29,000 cases meeting the surveillance definition of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) from various parts of the United States.¹ Thirty-one percent of the cases ...

CONSIDERATION has recently been given to whether anencephalic fetuses can appropriately be used as organ donors after birth.¹ Our group has performed three successful kidney transplantations from two anencephalic fetuses, and we report the results after ...

SEVERAL authors have described syndromes of diabetes insipidus that begin during gestation and remit after delivery.¹ Barron et al.² recently described three pregnant women with diabetes insipidus resistant to arginine vasopressin (AVP). Since excessive ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 38-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a right pleural effusion.

She was well until 17 years earlier, when right cervical and axillary lymphadenopathy was found. Microscopical examination of a ...

The two articles in this issue of the Journal on occupational exposure to benzene¹ and prenatal exposure to lead² confirm the suspicion that very low levels of toxins are capable of causing serious health effects. These impressive studies should quiet the ...

Four recent editorials in the Journal have reviewed the potential for increasing the therapeutic armamentarium for genetic disease.^{1 2 3 4} Bone marrow transplantation has been considered in each of these editorials.

Now, in this issue of the Journal, ...

To the Editor: Discussions of the management of carotid artery disease inevitably seem, to become tangled in conflicting statistics. Chambers and Norris' article on asymptomatic carotid bruits¹ and Caplan's commentary² (Oct. 2 issue) are no exceptions.

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To the Editor: In a letter to the Journal (July 15, 1982, issued), Kwok et al.¹ reported on retinal cotton-wool spots caused by Pneumocystis carinii in a male homosexual with P. carinii pneumonia. Their report was followed by a number of letters that ...

To the Editor: In 1982, Melby and colleagues in Norway reported on two previously healthy children who ingested an overdose of iron and were treated with deferoxamine; Yersinia enterocolitica septicemia subsequently developed in these children.¹ We ...

To the Editor: The fra(X) form of X-linked mental retardation is now recognized to be one of the most common conditions in mental retardation.^{1 , 2} Chromosome studies to look for the fragile site (fra(X)(q)) on the X chromosome have become part of the ...

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To the Editor: Dr. Lister's Special Report on the impact of overseas medical graduates (Oct. 16 issue)¹ has attempted to analyze the issues involved objectively, but it fails to address certain specific matters. Although the Department of Health and ...

IN 1980, after a lecture I delivered in Boston on human relationships, a star member of the New England Patriots professional football team, John Hannah, asked if he could speak with me. In my office, he described the struggles of the team and asked if I ...

This book offers a coherent, intellectually satisfying presentation of the descriptive–phenomenological approach to the most important psychiatric syndromes and disorders. Basing its discussion on reliable, operationally defined, categorical diagnoses, it ...

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Death has become difficult to recognize and even harder to acknowledge in the hospitals where most people in modern societies spend their last hours. For nearly two decades, a literature has been evolving on the subject of determining when a person has ...

If you have ever questioned whether environmental tobacco smoke has an adverse effect on our health, then you should read this book prepared by a distinguished committee of the National Research Council's Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. The ...

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Medicine

Environmental Toxicity and the Aging Processes. (Progress in Clinical and Biological Research. Vol. 228.) Edited by Scott R. Baker and Marvin Rogul. 139 pp. New York, Alan R. Liss, 1987. $39.50.

The ...

MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER

The Center is conducting a study of healthy, married men between the ages of 45 and 75. A free health evaluation will be provided.

Contact Nancy Mensch, Mount Sinai Med. Ctr., 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029; or call ...