AMONG the 79,823 cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) through December 1988, 3 percent (2144) were associated with blood transfusion.¹ Another 10,000 currently asymptomatic people are ...

MORE than a century ago, Cohnheim¹ showed that some neutrophils within the vascular space marginated along the vessel walls. After radioisotopic methods for labeling cells were introduced, Athens and his associates² showed that this marginating pool was ...

FIFTEEN to 25 years ago there was much interest in the effect of altering the frequency of meals on the intermediary metabolism of normal,^{1 2 3 4} obese,^{2 , 4 5 6} hyperlipidemic,^{1 , 2 , 4} and diabetic⁷ subjects. Epidemiologic observations had suggested ...

THE anatomical delineation of the site and extent of focal inflammation is critical to the clinical management of infectious processes, both for diagnosis and for monitoring the response to therapy. Although many imaging techniques are available to ...

PHYSICIANS, blood-bank managers, and the general public have expressed considerable concern about the risk that transfusion recipients will receive blood infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12} Recent estimates of ...

BLOOD transfusions contaminated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are an efficient means of transmitting the virus.^{1 , 2} Approximately 2.5 percent of the cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) reported to the Centers for Disease Control (...

ORTHOSTATIC hypotension is often observed in elderly people and may result in substantial morbidity and mortality from associated falls and syncope. Studies of elderly people living in the community have found a prevalence of orthostatic hypotension as ...

Presentation of Case

A 40-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever, headache, and a rash.

The patient was well until two days earlier, near the end of a two-week visit to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, when he awoke with a pruritic, ...

The first report of the transmission of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) by transfused blood appeared in December 1982. In the absence of a known cause or a laboratory test to identify donors capable of transmitting AIDS to transfusion recipients,...

IN this issue of the Journal, MacNee and associates¹ report that intense cigarette smoking for about half an hour was associated with the retention of circulating neutrophils in the lungs of the smokers. This was not so in a similar group of cigarette ...

IN the radiologic search for occult infections, the armamentarium of imaging techniques can be divided broadly into those that detect anatomical abnormalities (computerized tomography, ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging) and those that detect ...

Increasingly, society demands that long-standing disease-related problems be solved, but who will solve them? The opportunities are greater than in the past because of the great conceptual and technical advances in basic biologic science. There is every ...

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To the Editor: Accumulating data continue to confirm the neurodevelopmental toxicity of low-level lead poisoning in children. Because adverse cognitive effects have been demonstrated with whole-blood lead (PbB) levels as low as 10 μg per deciliter (the ...

To the Editor: Although there appears to be a consensus that our health care system is in crisis, there is little agreement among our leading thinkers and policy makers about the causes of the crisis and even less agreement about what to do about it. One ...

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This is a curious book — a comprehensive, scholarly, heavily referenced survey of the use of molecular genetic techniques in predictions of genetic risks, combined with what amounts to a political pamphlet on the probable abuses of these techniques. It is ...

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Producing an authoritative, honest, and understandable book on cancer prevention for the general public is a potentially useful, although difficult, undertaking. This book covers a wide range of topics, from diet to smoking to radon, and is based on the ...

A bargain is hard to find in medical ethics. A small cottage industry has arisen, complete with airport seminars and cruise-ship classes. Two-week courses promise to turn enrollees into "certified bioethicists." Few of these opportunities deliver good ...

This book contains seven essays on AIDS (the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and ethics. The essays are divided into three sections — "Problems in Understanding," "AIDS and Public Policy," and "AIDS and the Health Care Professions." The seven authors ...

This book is a collection of 12 essays by 14 contributors, edited by a professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University. The contributors include historians, medical humanists, physicians, an attorney, a professor of religious studies, an ...

Education, History, Biography, and Public Press

About Your Medicines. Fifth edition. By the United States Pharmacopeial Convention. 1013 pp. Rockville, Md., USPC, 1989. $6.95.

Choosing Reality: A contemplative view of physics and the mind. By B. Alan ...

GASTROENTERIC BIOLOGY

The 2nd international conference will be held in Chicago, Oct. 29–Nov. 1.

Contact Joyce Fried, Brain Research Inst., Univ. of California, Ctr. for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90024–1761; or call (213) 825–5061.

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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 ...