IN a previous study, we found that the members of an Israeli community ranked the death of a child, in war or through other causes, as a stressful life event demanding the highest degree of adjustment in the parents.¹ Others have concurred with this ...

CORONARY-ARTERY bypass grafts obtained from the internal mammary artery have a greater patency rate than do saphenous-vein grafts.^{1 2 3 4 5} This difference persists when grafts to the same coronary vascular bed (e.g., the left anterior descending artery) ...

ALTHOUGH the health hazards of acute lead toxicity and occupational exposure to lead are well known, uncertainties exist about the adverse effects of environmental exposure to lower levels of lead. Recent epidemiologic studies have indicated that ...

THE benefits of surfactant replacement for the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome are described in reports of recent controlled clinical trials,^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} all of which found statistically significant improvements in respiratory function after ...

FOR more than 60 years, the geographic maldistribution of physicians in the United States has been a major health care problem.^{1 2 3 4} Rural areas have been particularly underserved, especially by primary care physicians.^{5 6 7 8 9} With recent increases in ...

IPRATROPIUM bromide (8-isopropyl-noratropine-methobromide) is a synthetic quaternary ammonium congener of atropine. The first anticholinergic agent to be approved for use as a bronchodilator, it has recently been released for general use. I review here ...

Presentation of Case

A 10-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of jaundice.

He was in a stable state of health until 22 months earlier, when a Coombs-positive hemolytic anemia was found; prednisone was required to maintain a satisfactory ...

The death of a spouse and, perhaps even more, the death of a child have been widely viewed as the most stressful of all human experiences. The belief that such stresses have adverse effects on health is so embedded in folklore that the relative lack of ...

Furchgott and Zawadzki¹ first reported that endothelial cells have an obligatory role in the relaxation caused by acetylcholine in isolated rabbit arteries. This observation reconciled earlier contradictory findings of the powerful vasodilatory effect of ...

To the Editor: In the February 25 issue of the Journal, Ward et al. reported 13 cases of seroconversion after transfusions of blood from seven blood donors who were seronegative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies.¹ These observations ...

To the Editor: Human T-cell lymphotropic virus Type I (HTLV-I) and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) are human retroviruses associated with well-described clinical outcomes. HTLV-I, which has been identified in limited regions of Japan, Africa, ...

To the Editor: The gastrointestinal tract is a major target organ in AIDS. The entire tract from mouth to anus may be affected.^{1 , 2} Both diarrhea and weight loss are common manifestations of the disease. In a study of 22 patients who had AIDS with ...

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F.G. Gosling's study of a diagnosis into which a vast array of psychological, biologic, and social conditions were once lumped, and of the physicians who adhered to this categorization, sheds considerable light on the way historical and cultural context ...

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Perhaps it was Socrates who said that all good poets compose their works not by art, but because they have inspiration and are possessed. Similarly, Cicero believed that every great man was touched by divine afflatus. Victor Hugo opined that inspiration ...

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This is a provocative book. Identifying themselves as Darwinian psychologists, the authors apply constructs of natural and sexual selection to understanding human psychology and behavioral capabilities. In particular, they apply these constructs to a ...

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