THE risk of osteoporosis increases with age and is higher in women than in men. Its cause appears to reside in an accentuation of the bone loss that occurs in everyone with advancing age but that is especially marked after the menopause.¹

The prevention ...

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HUMAN parvovirus causes a variety of clinical syndromes. First found in serum from asymptomatic blood donors,¹ the virus is now known to induce aplastic crises in patients with sickle cell disease,² hereditary spherocytosis,³ and other chronic hemolytic ...

A SAFE, convenient, and effective method of fertility control has been sought for centuries. No currently available form of birth control, however, is ideal. Oral steroidal contraceptives must be taken daily for maximal effectiveness, and unacceptable ...

CHLOROQUINE and hydroxychloroquine are antimalarial agents that are often used in the treatment of collagen vascular diseases. However, both drugs can cause a toxic skeletal-muscle myopathy, the histology of which has been carefully described.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 ...}

CHRONIC or adult autoimmune thrombocytopenia usually occurs with high levels of platelet-associated IgG antibodies,^{1 2 3} platelet-associated IgM antibodies,^{4 5 6} or both. The role of complement-mediated platelet injury in autoimmune thrombocytopenia has ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 48-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a pleural effusion.

He was well until 16 months earlier, when a routine x-ray film of the chest (Fig. 1) showed a nodule in the right lung and right pleural ...

The hormones of the adrenal cortex play a critical part in both daily life and the reaction to stress. Aldosterone is crucial in the regulation of sodium balance and blood volume, and cortisol is needed both to assist in postural adaptations and to allow ...

This issue of the Journal contains a report by Lehman et al. on a patient with autoimmune thrombocytopenia and lymphoreticular malignant disease, in whom state-of-the-art in vitro serologic methods were employed to characterize the abnormal ...

Osteoporosis in postmenopausal women is an important public health problem, accounting for 1 to 2 million fractures per year in the United States. The morbidity, mortality, and financial ramifications associated with this disease are most evident in ...

Arbetter — Albert H. Arbetter, M.D., of Wayland, died on September 23 at the age of 69.

Dr. Arbetter received his degree from Middlesex University School of Medicine in 1943. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of ...

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To the Editor: The report by Gold and colleagues (May 22 issue)¹ indicated that the plasma ACTH response to ovine corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation can be helpful in the differential diagnosis of two conditions of hypercortisolism — the ...

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To the Editor: Natural somatostatin has been used to treat children with hyperinsulinemia, but because of the short half-life of the native peptide (two to three minutes), continuous intravenous, subcutaneous infusion must be used.1–4 We report the use ...

To the Editor: Nesidioblastosis is a condition of inappropriate insulin secretion.^{1 2 3} Treatment consists of normalizing the glucose level with insulin-suppressive drugs or glucagon. Subtotal or even total removal of the pancreas may be necessary. A ...

To the Editor: Until November 1984, Diabinese (Pfizer Laboratories) was the only brand of chlorpropamide marketed in the United States. The highly characteristic pill was easily recognized by patients, pharmacists, and physicians by virtue of its unique ...

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Hegel wrote, in the introduction to his Philosophy of History, "What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments have never learned anything from history." The pertinence of that epigram is illustrated again and again in this superb ...

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Medicine

The Human Pulmonary Circulation: Its form and function in health and disease. Third edition. By Peter Harris and Donald Heath. 702 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1986. $140.

Latest Achievements of Diabetes Research: Reviewed ...

PERSPECTIVES IN CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

The program will be held in Warren, Vt., Feb. 16–20.

Contact Critical Care Ctr., Ellis Hospital, 1101 Nott St., Schenectady, NY 12308; or call (518)382–4135.

SPORTS MEDICINE

The University of Hawaii Sports Medicine ...