SMOKING cessation is one of the primary goals of physicians and public health practitioners who seek to help adults improve their health status.^{1 2 3} The benefit of smoking cessation in the survival of patients under the age of 65 with confirmed coronary ...

THE clinical treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus may be complicated by the inability of certain diabetics to perceive accurately serious local organ dysfunction such as myocardial ischemia.¹ We have observed that some diabetic patients with acute ...

IN neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, fetal and neonatal thrombocytopenia results from the formation of a maternal antiplatelet antibody to a paternally derived platelet antigen, usually PLA1, expressed on the surface of the fetal platelets.^{1 , 2} The ...

SUBSTANTIAL evidence suggests that regular physical activity is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease.^{1 2 3 4} It is also known that regular physical activity is associated with higher levels of physical fitness, as measured by maximal ...

LOW birth weight (<2500 g) occurs in approximately 7 percent of all infants born in the United States and is associated with a mortality rate during the neonatal period (0 to 27 days of life) that is 40 times that of infants with normal birth weight.¹ ...

THE recently implemented prospective payment systems (PPS) based on diagnosis-related groups have radically changed hospital reimbursement for inpatient services provided to Medicare patients.¹ Reimbursing hospitals with a predetermined sum for each ...

THE interferons are a group of glycoproteins with antiviral, immunomodulatory, and antitumor activities. There are three major types: alfa (leukocyte or lymphoblastoid), beta (fibroblast), and gamma (immune) interferon. Alfa interferon has proved efficacy ...

Presentation of Case

An 86-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of nodular pulmonary densities.

He was in excellent health until seven months earlier, when glaucoma was found. Timolol ophthalmic drops were prescribed; marked lethargy and ...

Even before the advent of the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) on October 1, 1983, concern was expressed that this new payment method would affect adversely the quality of hospital care given to Medicare beneficiaries. The use of diagnosis-...

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To the Editor: It has been well established in recent years that reinfections with rubella can be accompanied by the appearance of specific IgM antibodies.^{1 , 2} Most of the cases described in the literature have been subclinical; clinically apparent ...

To the Editor: We commend Drs. Falk and Jennette (June 23 issue)¹ for their important observation that at least two types of antibodies against neutrophil components may be present in the serum of patients with various forms of systemic vasculitis. ...

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To the Editor: Welch and Larson (July 21 issue)¹ describe Oregon's decision to withdraw Medicaid funding for organ transplantation. With the authors, we commend the Oregon legislature for confronting the difficult issue of the allocation of scarce ...

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The unexpected arrival of an influential person at a hospital's emergency department is an occasional event for which personnel at all levels of the emergency care system must be prepared. The issues raised by the psychiatric care of celebrities have been ...

This interesting book summarizes what will probably be viewed in retrospect as the first phase of a series of new approaches to the restoration of insulin secretion in patients with severe diabetes mellitus. Pancreatic transplantation, after a few ...

This is an ambitious work, presenting specialized information set forth by a distinguished lineup of clinicians and researchers, largely American. Its 49 chapters, many of them multiauthored, cover a range of topics, including basic immunology, ...

The preface to this edition is pertinent:

During the 49 years since publication of the first edition, many advances have been made in all aspects of surgery. The fragmentation of surgery, leading to an increasing number of specialty fields, has tended to ...

This textbook of surgical pathology is well written, illustrated, and referenced and would be appropriate as an introductory textbook for residents and as a reference book for practicing pathologists. Internists and surgeons at all levels of experience ...

This is an excellent and comprehensive textbook devoted entirely to the colon, rectum, and anus. It is edited by two well-known authors who collaborated with more than 40 others to produce an impressive work that summarizes the current knowledge of ...

Neurology and Psychiatry

The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the personality disorders of our age. By James F. Masterson. 244 pp. New York, Free Press, 1988. $22.50.

Sexuality and Chronic Illness: A comprehensive approach. By Leslie R. Schover and ...

GENITAL PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS

The international symposium and tutorial, subtitled "Advances in Modern Diagnosis and Therapy," will be held in Hamburg, West Germany, Feb. 3–5.

Contact Dr. G. Gross, Dept. of Dermatology, Univ. Hosp. Hamburg-Eppendorf, ...

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