DEXAMETHASONE is known to be effective in reducing vasogenic cerebral edema associated with either primary and metastatic brain tumor or brain abscess.^{1 , 2} Early enthusiastic reports of benefits obtained with cortisone therapy for "apoplectic stroke"3 ...

ACCORDING to current views, there is little communication between body cholesterol pools and the large mass of cholesterol that exists in the central nervous system.* ¹ The lack of equilibrium between brain and plasma sterol compartments may relate to the ...

ASIDE from their difficulty in reading, dyslexic perL sons do not differ much from normal readers in terms of their results on tests of what they see or how well they see. The impression is that dyslexia is a disability in interpreting what is seen rather ...

TUMORS secreting the enteropancreatic hormones gastrin,¹ glucagon,² insulin,³ pancreatic polypeptide,⁴ somatostatin,^{5 , 6} and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide⁷ are well known.

Paradoxically, tumors producing one of the oldest known gut hormones, ...

RABIES encephalitis was one of the earliest diseases known.¹ Because rabies is uniformly fatal, every attempt must be made to prevent invasion of the virus. Since the introduction of a rabies vaccine in 1885, post-exposure vaccination has formed the ...

DIPYRIDAMOLE (2,6-bis-diethanolamino-4,8-dipiperidinopyrimido-(5,4-d)-pyrimidine) is a pyrimidopyrimidine derivative that is among the 50 most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States.¹ This review will focus on the mechanisms of action of ...

Presentation of Case

A 45-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of plasma-cell leukemia and renal failure.

He was well until 21 months earlier, when he incurred a compression fracture of the third lumbar vertebra in a fall. Evidence of a ...

The disorder we now call "dyslexia" has historical roots that can be traced back to the late 19th century, when the notion of a specific syndrome involving the inability to read in spite of normal vision evolved. Early reports began with Kussmaul's ...

Until 1953, rabies post-exposure prophylaxis followed the formula of daily injections with nervoustissue vaccine developed by Pasteur in 1885. However, rabies often developed in persons with severe head or hand bites in spite of such vaccination; the ...

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To the Editor: The report by Weiner et al. (Oct. 2 issue)¹ on inhibition of atherosclerosis by cod-liver oil in hyperlipidemic swine is interesting but does not elaborate on the possible mechanisms involved. Although only one of the coronary arteries was ...

To the Editor: The correspondence (July 10 issue) on the contradictory results of the two studies^{1 , 2} published in the Journal on estrogen-replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease (including myocardial infarction) appears, at first reading, to ...

To the Editor: I agree with Dr. Karnovsky (Oct. 16 issue)¹ that the paper by Lugaresi et al. in the same issue² represents an important contribution to our knowledge of human sleep. However, I do not regard the editorial by Karnovsky as representing a ...

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To the Editor: A new system of standardizing the prothrombin time in oral anticoagulant control has been introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO).^{1 , 2} It is based on an international normalized ratio derived from calibrations of commercial ...

To the Editor: The recent discovery of biologically active peptides in mammalian atria represents an important advance in the area of cardiovascular and renal research. However, these peptides have been given different names by different investigators (...

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To the Editor: Dr. Koren claims that the use of a new "typeset" method for preparing an abstract may improve the chances for its acceptance at a national meeting, specifically, at the 1986 annual meeting of the American Pediatric Society and the Society ...

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A reader may understandably ask, What exactly is urban family medicine? To quote from this book's foreword,

[It] is not a subcategory or subspecialty of family medicine. Rather, it is a logical extension and application of the precepts and philosophies of ...

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In the past two decades, there has been a marked increase in our understanding of the pathophysiologic aspects of liver disease. The complicated structure of the hepatitis B virus and its clinical manifestations have been elaborated. More hepatotoxic ...

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SEMINARS OF THE BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL, BOSTON

The seminar, entitled "The Gene Predisposing to Retinoblastoma and Osteosarcoma," will be held on May 19.

TOXICOLOGY UPDATE 1987

The program will be offered in Baltimore, June 8–10.

Contact Dr. Jacqueline Com, ...

The federal immunization program, by virtually all economic, medical, and political measures, is a stunning success story because of its record of protecting millions of children against the common infectious diseases of the young. But in recent years the ...