AFTER several years of extensive testing, there still are no precise data on the extent of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the general U.S. population. Such data are urgently needed to monitor the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (...

PROSTHETIC-VALVE endocarditis develops in a small proportion of patients after surgery. Infections classified as being of early onset are usually caused by microorganisms, such as Staphylococcus epidermidis, that are introduced in the perioperative period,...

HUNTINGTON'S disease is an incurable hereditary neurologic disorder whose onset typically occurs when the patient is between 30 and 50 years of age. Characteristic features of the disorder include involuntary choreic movements,¹ cognitive impairment,² and ...

LIVE attenuated varicella vaccine is safe, immunogenic, and highly protective in normal^{1 2 3} and immunocompromised^{4 5 6 7} children. The development of zoster, a disease due to reactivation of latent varicella–zoster virus, is unusual after vaccination.^{5 6} ...

ALTHOUGH earlier studies^{1 2 3} suggested that dietary fish had some properties that could potentially prevent coronary artery disease, it was not until the epidemiologic studies of Bang et al.⁴ and Dyerberg et al.⁵ in the mid-1970s that the association ...

THE pathogenesis of polycystic ovary syndrome has been a matter of intense controversy for several decades. The disorder has been variously ascribed to primary abnormalities of the ovaries,¹ of gonadotropin secretion,² and of the adrenal glands.³ It has ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 57-year-old right-handed woman was admitted to the hospital because of dizziness, nausea, and "things jumping around" in her visual fields. She was well until six years earlier, when she experienced the abrupt ...

A dramatic outbreak of pneumonia (182 cases with 29 deaths) in Philadelphia in July 1976 was recognized ultimately as a discrete entity that became known as legionnaires' disease. The announcement by the Centers for Disease Control the following January ...

That varicella and zoster have the same origin has been known since the work of Von Bokay in Budapest late in the last century. The final proof was obtained by Weller,¹ who demonstrated that both diseases were caused by a single virus, the varicella–...

Ansell — Harvey Berle Ansell, M.D., formerly of Boston, died on December 15 at the age of 79.

Dr. Ansell graduated from Tufts College Medical School in 1932. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Dermatology, Inc., ...

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To the Editor: Your mention (Sept. 10 issue)¹ of the Health Policy Agenda for the American People underscored a misconception regarding its purposes. The publication earlier this year of the Final Report of the Health Policy Agenda² marked the beginning, ...

To the Editor: A 65-year-old woman called paramedics because of cardiac palpitations. At the scene the patient had a regular sinus rhythm with a heart rate of 75 beats per minute. Her heart and lungs were normal. The patient was placed in the ambulance ...

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The publication of the second editions of two monumental books with the same title some five years after their first appearance is eloquent testimony to the increasing importance of hemostasis and thrombosis in biomedical science and clinical medicine. ...

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According to the lore of the residents, the diagnosis of metabolic and genetic disorders is relegated to the domain of obscurity and trivia. Yet the clinical problems associated with inborn errors or genetic syndromes are encountered every day in ...

In this era of prospective payment, physicians are being pushed to be more selective in their use of diagnostic tests. Experienced clinicians maximize their selectivity by employing the hypothetical–deductive approach to data collection. Given the ...

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These guidelines are in accordance with the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals." (The complete document is available in the June 12, 1982, issue of the British Medical Journal and the June 1982 issue of the Annals of ...