DIABETES mellitus can be divided into insulin-dependent diabetes (IDD) and non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDD).¹ A subtype of NIDD that occurs during youth, which is often inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, is termed maturity-onset diabetes of ...

THE accumulation of aluminum in bone can lead to symptomatic bone disease in patients with chronic renal failure. Risk factors associated with aluminum-related bone disease in such patients include the contamination of dialysate with aluminum,^{1 2 3 4} ...

STUDIES in rodents have shown that intravenous infusion of syngeneic cells from in vitro expanded autoreactive clones of T cells can induce experimental autoimmune thyroiditis, encephalomyelitis, or arthritis.¹ However, if cells from the same T-cell ...

CORONARY angiography is currently the only clinical tool that allows direct evaluation of the anatomical features of coronary arteries. However, the technique relies on visualization of contrast material in the arterial lumen in one or more longitudinal ...

THE sharp distinction between undergraduate and medical education has been a peculiar and useful characteristic of the educational system in the United States. Because physicians-to-be are expected to finish four years of college before medical school, ...

THE National Cancer Institute has set national objectives for reducing the incidence and mortality of cancer by using available information and technology.¹ Current data indicate that widespread application of state-of-the-art treatment for cancer might ...

IF I were to identify one current medicolegal public policy issue as paramount in serious constitutional debate at the close of 1986, it would be compulsory urine testing for drug abuse. A year ago at this time, the most controversial medicolegal policy ...

Presentation of Case

A 65-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent chest pain.

He was well except for asthmatic bronchitis until nine years earlier, when exertional angina pectoris developed. One year later he was admitted to this ...

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Ten years ago I was a third-year resident in internal medicine trying to decide how best to put my education to use. By then I was married and had two children, and the pull of country life seemed great. I had also participated in a residency program in a ...

Four medical student preceptees were sitting opposite me when my office telephone rang. The daughter of a patient was calling to ask me to write a letter to her father's health plan. I had discovered acute myelogenous leukemia while treating her 54-year-...

Physicians are becoming increasingly concerned about the controls being placed on their practices by health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred-provider organizations, third-party insurance plans, and in some cases, their own group practices. Cost-...

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To the Editor: Sexual contact, whether heterosexual or homosexual, is the most important mode of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) throughout the world.¹ Epidemiologic data, combined with the finding of HIV in seminal fluid, cervical ...

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Here is a textbook in search of a curriculum. The book's stated purpose is to provide a nucleus of knowledge for training and certification in surgical oncology. Although certification is not yet a reality, some training programs in surgical oncology do ...

The editor of this book has combined "an inherent and basic intellectual characteristic" (controversy) with a group of clinical thoracic subjects to produce a highly readable and useful work of particular interest to general thoracic surgeons and ...

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This book deals with a newly emphasized form of health care delivery: major ambulatory surgery. Usually, books serve only narrow specialty groups. By contrast, the present work will be of great value to all surgeons as they enter into the field of major ...

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Medicine

Dermatology in General Medicine: Textbook and atlas. Third edition. Edited by Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, Arthur Z. Eisen, Klaus Wolff, Irwin M. Freedberg, and K. Frank Austen. 2641 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1987. $160.

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GERIATRIC REHABILITATION

A conference entitled "Rehabilitation in the Aging: 2nd Annual Update" will be held in Tucson, Ariz., on March 7.

Contact CME Office, Arizona Health Sciences Ctr., Tucson, AZ 85724; or call (602) 626–6707.

INTENSIVE CARE AND ...