LYME disease, the most prevalent vector-borne illness in the United States, is expanding both geographically and in the severity of its impact.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} Epidemiologic features have been described among summer residents of two island communities where ...

DUCHENNE'S muscular dystrophy is a fatal X-linked recessive disorder of children, with an incidence of approximately 1 in 3300 male births.¹ Two thirds of mothers of affected boys are thought to be carriers. About 70 percent of these women have some ...

INTRAVASCULAR infusion of radiographic contrast material is considered to be the third leading cause of hospital-acquired acute renal failure.¹ The incidence of nephropathy induced by contrast material in normal patients after intravenous urography,² ...

THE administration of radiographic contrast mediums continues to be a common cause of renal injury acquired in the hospital.^{1 2 3 4} Conventional radiographic contrast agents, as exemplified by sodium diatrizoate (Fig. 1), use iodine (300 mg per milliliter)...

EXTRAORDINARY progress in the understanding of the structure and function of human genes has been made in the past 25 years. Techniques have been developed for the manipulation and study of genes in both normal and abnormal states. Many of these ...

DEPRESSION is a psychiatric syndrome frequently encountered by physicians who treat older adults. Depression is not one disease, but rather the presentation of multiple medical and psychiatric disorders, ranging from bereavement to hypothyroidism. Most ...

COMMERCIAL concentrates of human antihemophilic factor (factor VIII) have been available for nearly 20 years and have resulted in dramatic changes in the treatment of classic hemophilia. Home therapy, surgical intervention, and prolonged treatment of ...

Presentation of Case

A 23-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain and vomiting.

He was well until approximately two months earlier, when he began to experience crampy pain in the left upper part of the abdomen; the pain was ...

Despite innovations in techniques of body imaging such as computerized radiography, ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance, the use of radiocontrast material is increasing, largely because of the need for angiography in connection with surgery or ...

With this issue, the Journal begins a series of "Current Concepts" articles addressing key topics in the clinical practice of geriatric medicine. Why geriatrics, and why now? A revolution in the composition of our population and in the character of our ...

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To the Editor: Difficulty obtaining accurate weights of hospitalized patients is a source of humor and frustration. Errors in weighing technique, reading the scales, and recording are usually blamed. In one survey, nurses listed broken or unreliable ...

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The first of these two books is a compendium of papers given at a conference held in Germany, and it has been translated from the German by Welch. The authors of the 16 chapters are predominantly German; one is Swiss. It has become a standard for its ...

This book contains the findings and recommendations of the AIDS Activity Oversight Committee created by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. The committee has reviewed the progress made since the publication, 20 months ago, of ...

Here is a book that brims with compassion so much so that it seems almost taboo to question its assertions. But although Kübler-Ross should be credited for her compassion, her book cannot remain exempt from scientific appraisal.

The author begins with the ...

This book could easily be titled "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Serology of Sexually Transmissible Disease and Were Afraid to Ask." For those hardy enough to dive into the multitude of data presented, there are rich rewards to be gained in ...

The central nervous system is one of the sites most frequently involved in AIDS, and central nervous system disease has a devastating impact on the lives of patients with AIDS. As many as 39 percent of patients with AIDS have neurologic signs or symptoms ...

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Biomedical Science

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Edited by Aaron Polliack and Daniel Catovsky. 389 pp., illustrated. New York, Harwood Academic, 1988. $74.

Clinical Diagnosis: A physiologic approach. Fifth edition Edited by Richard D. Judge, George D. ...

PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY IN MEDICINE AND RESEARCH

A conference, entitled "Institutional Administration, Education, and the Animal Research Committee: Meeting the Challenge," will be held in Boston, March 9 and 10.

Contact Joan Rachlin, PRIM&R, 132 Boylston ...