CIGARETTE smoking is associated with several diseases of major importance in women. Notably, smokers appear to have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease^{1 , 2} and osteoporosis^{3 , 4} and a decreased risk of breast and endometrial cancer.^{5 6 7} Hormonal ...

CIRRHOSIS of the liver is a leading cause of death in many parts of the world. Treatment of this condition has usually been symptomatic. In 1972, we carried out a study that showed that oral colchicine — which inhibits collagen synthesis and secretion and ...

PERCUTANEOUS transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is now an established treatment for patients with coronary artery disease. One of the major obstacles to expanding its usefulness is the high incidence of re-Stenosis. Although technological advances ...

ALTHOUGH it is well recognized that cobalamin deficiency may sometimes present as a neurologic disorder in the absence of anemia, such cases are currently thought to be unusual or exceptional.^{1 2 3} Neurologic symptoms have often been considered to be late ...

WITH neither the time nor the resources available to prevent, detect, or treat every disorder in every patient, which preventive, diagnostic, or therapeutic interventions should take priority? When a physician has a few spare minutes to spend with a ...

OVER the past decade, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty has gained wide acceptance as the procedure of choice in many patients with atherosclerotic coronary artery disease. As experience with the procedure has grown, its rate of success has ...

AN increasing variety of hereditary disorders of intracellular cobalamin metabolism, usually first detected because of the presence of methylmalonic aciduria (cblA, cblB, and cblF mutations), homocystinuria (cblE and cblG mutations), or both (cbIC and ...

Presentation of Case

A 40-year-old right-handed man was admitted to the hospital because of questionable recurrence of a brain tumor.

He was well until 13 years earlier, when a grand-mal seizure occurred. Evaluation elsewhere included an ...

Cirrhosis of the liver is a leading cause of death in the United States and a major worldwide health problem.¹ The World Health Organization has estimated that the annual death rate from cirrhosis in some nations is as high as 40 persons per 100,000 ...

To the stalwart little band of investigators of vitamin B₁₂ — now more rationally termed cobalamin — there is comfort in knowing that the stream of important scientific problems will never end. If the past is any guide to the future, they will be ...

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This new book is recommended reading for all professionals and paraprofessionals engaged in the care of pregnant women. It should be required reading for those resistant to the standardization of perinatal records and the collection of perinatal data.

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Accidental death is responsible for 50 percent of deaths among children between 1 and 14 years old. It surpasses the next four leading causes of death in children combined. Furthermore, more than 2 million children are hospitalized annually with injuries, ...

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This new two-volume work covers pediatric cardiology in its entirety. It will be an excellent textbook and reference source for the pediatric cardiologist and all others dealing with the cardiac problems of children with congenital heart defects that ...

It has been eight years since the first edition of this book was published. In that time, the fields of pediatric gastroenterology in general and pediatric hepatology in particular have grown extensively. The long-awaited second edition of this standard ...

The complex biotoxicology of marine venoms and poisons is generally considered esoteric; in most medical school curricula, it is relegated to brief mention within lectures about bees, snakes, and spiders. Yet Americans increasingly reside in coastal ...

Biomedical Science

Advances in Pigment Cell Research. (Progress in Clinical and Biological Research. Vol. 256.) Edited by Joseph T. Bagnara. 637 pp., illustrated. New York, Alan R. Liss, 1988. $120.

Animal and Human Calorimetry. By J.A. McLean and G. ...

HEALING OUR HEALTH SYSTEM

A conference entitled "Healing Our Sick Health System: Healing Ourselves" will take place in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., July 21–24.

Contact CME Office, Montefiore Medical Ctr., 3301 Bainbridge Ave., Bronx, NY 10467; or call (212) 920–...