Despite very effective antihypertensive therapies and data from clinical trials demonstrating that lowering blood pressure reduces cardiovascular and renal complications, more than one fourth of the estimated 42 million people with hypertension in the ...

Under the Master Settlement Agreement signed with the tobacco industry in November 1998, 46 states settled lawsuits in which they sought to recover tobacco-related health care costs and to hold the tobacco companies accountable for decades of wrongdoing. ...

The first report of a health care worker infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by a needle stick, published in the medical literature in 1984,¹ launched a new era of concern about the occupational transmission of blood-borne pathogens. In ...

To the Editor: Coronary-artery surgery remains the most scrutinized treatment used today. Associated neurocognitive dysfunction is of intense interest to medical professionals and the lay public. We feel compelled to address the shortcomings of the study ...

To the Editor: In their article on the polysaccharide conjugate typhoid vaccine Vi-rEPA, Lin et al. (April 26 issue)¹ report an efficacy of 91.5 percent in the prevention of typhoid fever due to the development of IgG Vi antibodies, and they presume that ...

To the Editor: The review of cardiac resuscitation by Eisenberg and Mengert (April 26 issue)¹ summarizes the 2000 guidelines of the American Heart Association and encouraging survival results from Seattle, but it fails to focus on the brain. Since ...

To the Editor: The Case Record in the April 26 issue¹ describes a thoracic pheochromocytoma (paraganglioma) in a 19-year-old man and notes that his father received a diagnosis of hypertension in his 50s and that his mother had migraines. Although a ...

To the Editor: Whipple's disease is an infection that affects primarily the intestine, but some cases involve the heart valve, the peripheral lymph nodes, the joints, and the central nervous system.¹ Recently, the establishment of Tropheryma whipplei (...

To the Editor: We describe a patient in whom a surgical-site infection probably developed from contact with his pet dogs. A 59-year-old man underwent posterior C1–C2 transarticular screw fixation and fusion for cervical instability. Five days after ...

The title of this book implies that it is a history of food, yet its 163 “essays” (as the editors term the chapters) cover much more. Virtually every chapter mentions contemporary issues, and in several instances the focus is almost entirely on current ...

Physiology has been characterized as a science that infers the operation of a system by poking it and observing its response. The author of Calcium Hunger, a physiologist in this classic mode, is concerned with the role of behavior in maintaining the ...

The antiphospholipid-antibody syndrome is being diagnosed with increasing frequency in patients with thromboembolic disorders, pregnancy loss, or thrombocytopenia. Because it has only recently been well described, the diagnostic criteria for this syndrome ...

Maternal and Fetal Outcomes of Subsequent Pregnancies in Women with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Original Article, N Engl J Med 2001:344;1567-1571.. On page 1569, the y axis of Figure 1 should have read, “Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (%),” not “...

Identification of a Gene Responsible for Familial Wolff–Parkinson–White Syndrome Original Article, N Engl J Med 2001:344;1823-1831.. On page 1823, in the list of authors, “Al-Sayegh Hassan” should have read, “Ali Hassan Al Sayegh.”