To the Editor: In the May 16 issue, three articles deal with public policy on stem-cell research.¹–³ The authors of all three articles agree that reproductive cloning should be banned but that research on therapeutic cloning (i.e., nuclear ...

To the Editor: Whyte et al. (July 18 issue)¹ report that homozygous deletion of the gene encoding osteoprotegerin is a potential cause of juvenile Paget's disease in some Navajo patients. A deficiency of osteoprotegerin leads to unopposed effects of its ...

To the Editor: Lai et al. (June 27 issue)¹ report that lansoprazole after the eradication of Helicobacter pylori was significantly better than eradication alone in decreasing the risk of recurrence of ulcer complications in patients with long-term low-...

To the Editor: Hata et al. (July 4 issue)¹ report that inactivated varicella vaccine given before and after hematopoietic-cell transplantation reduces the risk of zoster. The primary end point of their study was the development of zoster within 12 months ...

To the Editor: In his Clinical Practice article (July 4 issue),¹ Antin does not discuss an important cause of late death after hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation: invasive fungal infection. Several centers have reported that such infections (such as ...

To the Editor: Freedman's conclusions about the stability of timidity in genetically engineered mice (July 18 issue)¹ are not supported by longitudinal studies in children. It is unjustifiable to suggest that temperamentally inhibited children are ...

To the Editor: A healthy 20-year-old woman presented with breast pain and bilateral purulent nipple discharge three weeks after having her nipples pierced. She received a course of antibiotics (cephalexin), and her infection resolved. Two weeks later, ...

”This book argues that by allowing patients to move them [emotionally], physicians gain access to a source of understanding illness and suffering that can make them more effective healers.” By the beginning of the 21st century, this statement, which opens ...

You will search medical textbooks in vain for the differential diagnosis distinguishing modern illness from postmodern illness. But if this dichotomy and the evolution of the former condition into the latter were established, the project of narrative ...

All medical students are required to write “history and physicals” (“H&Ps”) about their patients. In our urban clinic, I ask students to write one H&P in a narrative format — that is, to have the patient describe for the student what it is like to have a ...