Long Flights Can Cause Blood Clots, Group Warns

— Boston Globe, August 30, 1997

Airlines Sued over Blood Clots

— The Times, London, January 8, 2001

International Carriers Address New Threat: Coach-Class Syndrome

— Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2001

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Worldwide, gastric cancer is the second most frequent cancer and the second leading cause of death from cancer. Since the discovery of Helicobacter pylori in 1982 by Marshall and Warren, an association between the bacterium and gastric cancer has been ...

More than 20 physicians and scientists are involved in making editorial decisions about accepting or rejecting manuscripts for publication in the Journal. We recently summarized this process and the contributions made by each member of the editorial ...

Metastasis is the chief cause of morbidity and mortality in most cancers. Appropriately, the words “cancer” (from the Latin for “crab”) and “metastasis” (from the Greek for “change in position”) both refer to cell movement: the crab-like invasion of ...

To the Editor: The findings of Klein et al. (May 10 issue)¹ compel reexamination of fast-track cardioversion with the use of transesophageal echocardiography. Is it safe? The mortality rate was 2.5 times as high in the transesophageal-echocardiography ...

To the Editor: I am concerned that in their study of rates of cardiac catheterization among black patients and white patients, Chen et al. (May 10 issue)¹ may have used an invalid assumption. If so, their conclusions and those of Epstein and Ayanian² in ...

To the Editor: Prusiner¹ and Roos² (May 17 issue) do not mention the spread of prions by contaminated surgical instruments. Since prions are not inactivated by the usual methods of sterilization, surgical procedures may account for some cases of sporadic ...

To the Editor: The Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome was described by the British physician R.A. Waterhouse in 1911 as “a case of suprarenal apoplexy”¹ and by C. Friderichsen, a Danish pediatrician, in 1918 as “Nebennierenapoplexie bei kleinen Kindern.”² ...

To the Editor: In his review of our book, Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic (April 26 issue),¹ Spiegel's chief criticism is that we define breast cancer as either a medical disease or a social problem. No such false dichotomy was ever intended. ...

To the Editor: A 79-year-old woman presented with induration of the right leg three months after undergoing acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the knees. The induration was centered around the acupuncture point that lies along the gallbladder meridian (...

Medical privacy is a core ethical principle of the health professions, and it is considered to be essential by much of the public. Yet medical privacy has proved to be an elusive concept that has engendered disagreement over its definition, dispute over ...

Since the demonstration in the 1940s that hemodialysis can sustain life and relieve the symptoms of uremia, the widespread access to dialysis that began in the 1970s has been lifesaving for patients with kidney failure or end-stage renal disease. Today, ...

Before the availability of renal-replacement therapies, people with end-stage renal disease faced certain death, and their care generated few ethical questions. This hopeless situation changed dramatically after the introduction of transplantation and ...