THERE are photobiologic, biochemical, and experimental reasons to suppose that exposure to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet radiation, may be a cause of senile cataracts,^{1 2 3 4 5} although firm epidemiologic evidence has been lacking. Cataracts occur ...

THE association of severe hypoglycemia with certain non-islet-cell tumors has been noted since 1930, when Doege¹ described a patient with a large fibrosarcoma and hypoglycemia. Since then there have been many similar cases in the literature.^{2 3 4}

It has ...

THE best clinical marker of acute Lyme disease is a characteristic skin lesion, erythema chronicum migrans (ECM).^{1 2 3 4} In many patients, initial infection progresses to chronic Lyme disease, a spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms characterized by ...

PREVIOUS studies of pregnant patients with sickle cell disease have found increased maternal morbidity and high fetal morbidity and mortality.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13} Reports of maternal morbidity^{14 , 15} have described urinary tract infection, ...

ALTHOUGH each year since 1964 the Surgeon General has identified smoking as the single most important cause of preventable mortality, of late attention has been focused increasingly on the health effects of involuntary, or passive, smoking. When this ...

NEPHROPATHIC cystinosis is a lysosomal storage disorder characterized by the appearance of renal tubular Fanconi's syndrome in the first year of life and by growth retardation, progressive photophobia, and glomerular failure requiring dialysis or renal ...

Presentation of Case

A 52-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of Caroli's disease associated with recurrent obstructive jaundice, fever, and bacteremia.

He was well until 28 years earlier, when jaundice developed. A liver biopsy, ...

IN this issue of the Journal, Taylor et al. evaluate the effect of ultraviolet radiation on the ocular lens and its role as a risk factor in the development of cataracts.¹ This important article emphasizes a growing concern over the effects of non-...

Sometimes a problem in pathophysiology captures our imagination out of proportion to its frequency in clinical practice. The syndrome of tumor-induced hypoglycemia, in which hypoglycemia occurs in association with non-islet-cell tumors, is a case in ...

IN 1945, as the story goes, on the overnight train between Denver and Chicago, Drs. William B. Castle and Linus Pauling discussed the possibility that sickle cell anemia (homozygous sickle cell disease) is caused by an abnormal hemoglobin.¹ Thus was born ...

To the Editor: Ragland and Brand (Jan. 14 issue)* presented data from the Western Collaborative Group Study indicating that among men who survived for 24 hours after a coronary heart disease (CHD) event, subjects with Type A behavior had a lower rate of ...

To the Editor: We do not agree with the optimism of Safian et al. (July 21 issue)¹ about the potential efficacy of balloon aortic valvuloplasty in treating elderly patients with severe and symptomatic aortic stenosis. Their conclusions are based on ...

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To the Editor: In an editorial in the July 28 issue, Little¹ reviews previous estimates of total pregnancy loss of 60 to 78 percent. He uses the newly released study of Wilcox et al.² to conclude that about 52 percent of fertilizations result in loss ...

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To the Editor: "Setting the Record Straight" is an ironic title for an article that does not (May 5 issue).¹ It is like other articles in the Journal whose advocacy of tax-exempt hospitals proved so unpersuasive that, instead, they spurred some ...

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The editors of this book have aimed at providing a comprehensive work for all clinicians who might use magnetic resonance imaging. They have been generally successful. The book's 57 chapters are mainly up to date and provide thorough coverage. The first ...

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Readers who are familiar with the two previous editions of this book will welcome this third edition. For those with an interest in diseases of the abdomen, but who are unfamiliar with Meyers' work, this book will provide a wealth of useful information. ...

The naturally radioactive gas radon and its presence in the atmosphere have been known for about 90 years, since discovery of its parent element, radium, by Marie Curie. In medicine, radon has a long history in the radiation treatment of cancer. ...

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nutritional anthropology is a fascinating and rapidly growing subdiscipline of anthropology. Drawing together sociocultural, biologic, nutritional, and ecologic perspectives, nutritional anthropology seeks to understand more fully human nutritional ...

CHEMOTHERAPY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND MALIGNANCIES

The 2nd biennial conference will be held in Montreux, Switzerland, March 5–8.

Contact Secretariat, Biennial Conf., P.O. Box 70–06–40, D-8000 Munich 70, Federal Republic of Germany; or call (49) 89 780–...

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