Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated with conditions ranging from stability of the immune system and asymptomatic infection to severe compromise of the immune system and the development of AIDS.¹ Before highly active ...

The ability of the heart to respond to the demands of exercise through an increase in output is a complex physiologic process that involves intrinsic properties of heart muscle as well as the regulatory function of the autonomic nervous system. With the ...

To the Editor: As Wood (May 3 issue)¹ points out, individual and racial differences in the responses to drugs are increasingly often shown to reflect, at least in part, varying distributions of polymorphisms in drug receptors or drug-metabolizing enzymes ...

To the Editor: The report by Ostrowsky et al. (May 10 issue)¹ provides evidence that active infection-control interventions can reduce or eliminate the transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in health care facilities. One limitation of that ...

To the Editor: Qureshi et al., in their review of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (May 10 issue),¹ point out that a low Glasgow Coma Scale score, a hematoma of large volume, and the presence of ventricular blood on the initial computed tomographic (...

To the Editor: Blumenthal, in his excellent article on controlling health care expenditures (March 8 issue),¹ did not discuss the variation in expenditures across states and regions. With Health Care Financing Administration data, it can be calculated ...

To the Editor: Littoral-cell angioma is a rare primary tumor of the spleen.¹ Considered a benign condition, littoral-cell angioma arises from the normal littoral cells lining the sinus channels of the splenic red pulp.

A 59-year-old woman with a six-...

I knew from the quality of the writing and scholarship in the initial chapters of this book that it would be a pleasure to read, but I also realized it would be a challenge to review the book because of its scope and detail and the controversy the author ...

Inundated by medical journals, surrounded by news media with health and science reporters, bombarded with invitations to conferences, and ensnared in the World Wide Web, physicians and the public have come to expect medical discoveries and breakthroughs ...

This book contains expert summaries of various aspects of plant-based, or meatless, diets. It provides not only ethical, moral, and religious viewpoints from different periods of history but also modern perspectives on health promotion and disease ...