NEUTROPENIA is common among the newborns of women with hypertension.^{1 2 3} Although this type of neonatal neutropenia is well recognized, its cause and clinical importance are poorly understood,^{1 2 3 4} and a rational approach to treating it has not been ...

THE incidence and prevalence of cholelithiasis vary greatly among geographic regions and ethnic groups.^{1 , 2} The prevalence of gallstones at autopsy ranges from 44 percent in Malmö, Sweden, to 5 percent in Lisbon, Portugal.² Some of this variation is due ...

BRONCHOALVEOLAR lavage is a useful diagnostic and investigative technique in many acute and chronic lung diseases.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} It has also been used to study several of the pulmonary eosinophilic syndromes, including chronic eosinophilic pneumonia,^{8 9 10} ...

THE continued occurrence of acute and chronic complications of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), as well as the need for diabetic patients to inject themselves with insulin many times each day, has stimulated research into a more physiologic ...

IN 1958 Dahl and coworkers¹ suggested that the hypertension associated with obesity is dependent on salt intake. They based this hypothesis on the finding that in eight obese patients salt restriction alone or in combination with calorie restriction ...

LYME disease was described as a separate entity in 1977 because of a geographic clustering of children in Lyme, Conn., who were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.¹ The rural setting of the case clusters and the identification of erythema ...

Presentation of Case

A 25-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain, chills, and fever.

The patient was black and a native of Haiti, who immigrated to this country four years earlier and attended college. Two months before ...

Preeclampsia and eclampsia, uniquely obstetrical complications, remain common causes of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Like many other enigmatic diseases, preeclampsia has attracted over the centuries a series of treatment schemes, many of ...

Many strategies for the containment of medical costs have emerged from systems of managed care — gatekeeping by a primary care physician, prior authorization and utilization review, assumption of financial risk through capitation payments to the provider ...

To the Editor: For many, the important message of the TIMI Phase II trial (March 9 issue)¹ is not so much that the use of a conservative strategy after thrombolysis was vindicated, but that acute myocardial infarction could be treated in 3262 patients, ...

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To the Editor: We have demonstrated high prevalences of antibodies against human T-cell lymphotropic virus Type I (HTLV-I) in several remote indigenous populations of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (Banks and Torres islands) and in some coastal and ...

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Liver transplantation involving only a portion of a liver from a cadaveric donor is now performed in several major centers worldwide. We propose to transplant a liver lobe from a living donor — the parent of the recipient — to a noncritically ill infant ...

Many psychiatrists have come to appreciate Peter Kramer. His monthly columns in Psychiatric Times, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association, offer readers the views of a warm, spirited, open (and open-minded) physician who has what in the ...

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Schizophrenia remains the central challenge to psychiatric research and clinical practice. Since Bleuler first used the term "schizophrenia" 80 years ago, the cause of this illness remains unknown, and its symptoms incurable. It is refreshing therefore to ...

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Here is the third edition of a classic book on alcohol and drug abuse that has served as a standard in the field since the first edition was published in 1979. The third edition is timely in two respects. First, national health policies have focused ...

Nonprofit charitable hospitals have had a difficult decade. Buffeted by changes in methods of reimbursement and declining margins, nonprofit hospitals were exhorted to become competitive and then criticized for "dumping" and unfair competition. Other ...

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