To the Editor: The report by Kenchaiah et al. (Aug. 1 issue)¹ and the accompanying editorial by Massie² show the important association between any increased body-mass index and the risk of heart failure. However, several reports have now indicated that ...

To the Editor: The retrospective analysis by Little et al. (Aug. 8 issue)¹ provides further evidence of the transmission of drug-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)² and attempts to relate detection of resistant virus before ...

To the Editor: The article reporting on risperidone use in children with autism (Aug. 1 issue)¹ left many questions unanswered. Over an eight-week period, the treatment group had documented weight gains of about 6 lb (2.7 kg). The article indicates that ...

To the Editor: If Lamas et al. (June 13 issue)¹ wished to compare dual-chamber pacing with single-chamber pacing in patients with sinus-node dysfunction, why did they not compare single-chamber right atrial pacing with dual-chamber pacing? This mode of ...

To the Editor: The best interpretation of the data presented by Groman et al. (Aug. 8 issue)¹ is not that their patients had variant cystic fibrosis phenotypes in the absence of mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) ...

To the Editor: The article by Goodman et al. (May 16 issue)¹ and the accompanying editorial by Grumbach² criticize what these authors interpret as excessive concentrations of neonatologists in response to profit-maximizing behavior by hospitals — proof ...

To the Editor: In July 2000, a 58-year-old man infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) began treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy, which initially consisted of zidovudine, lamivudine, and ritonavir-boosted indinavir. After ...

Genetics, until recently the domain of molecular biologists, mathematicians, anthropologists, forensic scientists, pediatricians, and families concerned about rare and esoteric diseases, today captures the imagination of a wide spectrum of basic ...

This book resulted from a meeting held under the aegis of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, September 17 through 20, 2000. The meeting brought together an interdisciplinary cadre of ...

A book that promises to summarize “the current status of research and practice” by its nature always falls short of the mark. There is no better example of such a book than this one on hormone-replacement therapy and cancer. Long-held notions about the ...

The goal of this book is to provide a practical reference on the primary care of ambulatory women. After reading the book, I tested its usefulness in answering questions that arose in my office practice of family medicine and in my usual academic work. I ...

Small Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Correspondence, N Engl J Med 2002:347;1112-1115.. In the reply from the authors, line 15 in the right-hand column of page 1114 should have read “relative risk in the immediate-repair group, 1.03,” rather than “relative ...