To the Editor: Two randomized trials reported by Lederle et al.¹ and the United Kingdom Small Aneurysm Trial Participants² (May 9 issue) revealed that early surgery in patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms can only be expected to have a benefit ...

To the Editor: The results of the Diabetes Prevention Trial–Type 1 Diabetes Study (DPT-1) (May 30 issue)¹ show that parenteral insulin therapy does not prevent type 1 diabetes in the relatives of patients with the disease. We made a similar observation ...

To the Editor: The report by Herold et al. (May 30 issue)¹ on the use of anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody in patients with new-onset type 1 diabetes and the accompanying editorial by Gale² leave important questions unanswered. The authors suggest that ...

To the Editor: Case 16-2002 (May 23 issue)¹ describes a 41-year-old woman with generalized headache and a hemorrhagic lesion on neuroimaging; on brain biopsy, her condition was diagnosed as cerebral venous thrombosis. Several factors, however, suggest ...

To the Editor: The change in the Journal's policy on authorship (July 4 issue),¹ which previously restricted the number of authors for an article, is appropriate and is to be welcomed. However, this change does not protect persons who have contributed ...

To the Editor: The findings reported by Needleman and colleagues (May 30 issue)¹ provide further evidence of what hospital nurses have feared for quite some time: there are too few registered-nurse (R.N.) staff members, and there is too little support to ...

To the Editor: The commentary by Lo et al. (May 9 issue)¹ demonstrates concern about the impact of the California Supreme Court's decision in the Wendland case² and provides some welcome advice for physicians with regard to their responses to that ...

To the Editor: Massive organophosphorus-compound intoxication is relatively common. Although uncommon, delayed neurotoxicity may also occur in humans.¹ Persons with organophosphorus-compound poisoning have acute toxic effects, with a cholinergic crisis ...

Viscusi may be the most prominent academic critic of current public health approaches to smoking, often serving as an expert witness for cigarette companies. He is perhaps best known for his conclusion that smokers provide governments with net economic ...

It is a challenging enterprise to assemble a comprehensive textbook on prostate cancer that goes beyond what other books afford. Although there have been at least a dozen other treatises on the same or similar subjects, Prostate Cancer: Principles and ...

Gastrointestinal oncology has long been dominated by the competing interests of various specialists. Recent advances have now begun to lead to the integration of many of these groups and have led to the recognition of gastrointestinal oncology as a ...

A multidisciplinary approach to the evaluation and treatment of patients with solid tumors gives the best chance for a favorable outcome. New diagnostic, staging, and therapeutic advances require collaboration among experts in several areas. This book ...

Rapid Measurement of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in the Emergency Diagnosis of Heart Failure Original Article, N Engl J Med 2002:347;161-167.. The editors inadvertently failed to disclose that Drs. Nowak, McCord, Hollander, Duc, Omland, Storrow, Abraham, ...

Mechanical Extraction of a Basilar-Artery Embolus with the Use of Flow Reversal and a Microbasket Correspondence, N Engl J Med 2002:347;769-770.. The orientation and labeling of Figure 1 were incorrect. The corrected figure appears below. We regret the ...