HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE type b is a primary cause of life-threatening invasive infections in young children. About 18,000 cases, of which 900 to 1200 are fatal, are estimated to occur yearly in the United States among children less than five years of age.¹ ...

THE widely prescribed triazolobenzodiazepine derivative triazolam^{1 , 2} is representative of a newer class of benzodiazepine derivatives that have short elimination half-lives.^{3 , 4} Triazolam's elimination half-life in healthy humans averages 2 to 5 hours⁵ ...

THE fall in hemoglobin concentration observed during the first few months of life represents physiologic adaptation to the extrauterine environment.^{1 , 2} In term infants, hemoglobin concentrations reach a nadir of 10 to 11 g per deciliter between two and ...

THE examination of mutant human genes at a molecular level has revealed that inherited diseases are usually heterogeneous. Each disease can be produced by any of several mutations in a single gene or in a related set of genes. Heterogeneity of mutations ...

SENILE cardiac amyloid is a frequent postmortem finding in patients more than 80 years of age and has generally been regarded as nonspecific and of no functional importance.¹ In contrast, clinically important amyloid deposition in the heart has been ...

Despite the substantial decline in infant mortality that has occurred in the United States since the early 1960s, black infants remain twice as likely as white infants to die during their first year of life.¹ There is even some evidence to suggest that ...

ALTHOUGH the infant mortality rate in the United States has declined rapidly over the past two decades, the rate among blacks remains nearly twice as high as that among whites. Much of the excess mortality among blacks is due to their lower birth weights. ...

Presentation of Case

A 22-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of severe headaches.

She was well until 11 months earlier, when she awoke with nuchal pain that radiated intermittently to either arm and sometimes to the second and third ...

Approximately 245,000 low-birth-weight infants were born in the United States in 1986. These infants account for the majority of deaths in the first year of life, and they have a significantly increased risk of permanent disability.¹ Low birth weight is ...

The most important phase in the training of internists is the period spent as interns and residents. The outstanding places for such training have been the university medical centers. During the past decade, however, the clinical character of the patients ...

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To the Editor: We believe that the paper by Vadheim et al. (Nov. 20 issue)* on preferential transmission of diabetic alleles in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) contains a fundamental flaw in its design, which invalidates the use of the data. ...

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To the Editor: Chymopapain chemonucleolysis¹ of herniated lumbar disks has become less popular because of some anaphylactic reactions, including death, leakage of enzyme and consequent neurologic defects, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and unexplained ...

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To the Editor: It has been suggested that patients with blood-Group B antigen are poor candidates for cardiac transplantation.¹ An analysis of survival among patients receiving cardiac transplants at Johns Hopkins Hospital between July 1983 and February ...

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The problem with reform of the medical malpractice system is not an absence of good ideas; there exists a smorgasbord of intelligent, worthy proposals for addressing a situation that for the medical profession and society is at best a problem and at worst ...

The number of elderly persons is increasing, and the elderly use a disproportionate quantity of medical services. In addition to being seen in the usual office and hospital settings, elderly patients are seen at home and in nursing homes. Several diseases ...

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The addition of this book to the wealth of recent textbooks on dermatologic therapy is good evidence of the difficulty experienced in treating chronic skin diseases. Four of the most prominent competing works are Current Dermatologic Therapy (Madden S, ...

This is a large book, which is mistitled because it deals solely with iatrogenesis related to drugs. There are many physician-generated diseases not related to drugs. Iatrogenic diseases occur as a result of accidents, errors in physician judgment, ...

Biomedical Science

Advanced Magnetic Resonance Techniques in Systems of High Molecular Complexity. (Progress in Inorganic Biochemistry and Biophysics. Vol. 2.) Edited by Neri Niccolai and Gianni Valensin. 515 pp., illustrated. Boston, Birkhäuser, 1986. $...

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