To the Editor: In the T-20 vs. Optimized Regimen Only Study 1 (TORO 1), reported by Lalezari et al. (May 29 issue),¹ enfuvirtide, when added to an optimized salvage antiretroviral regimen, increased by 12 percent the proportion of patients who had ...

To the Editor: Dr. Reefhuis and colleagues (July 31 issue)¹ investigated the increased risk of bacterial meningitis in recipients of cochlear implants. To document the number of cases of postimplantation meningitis, the Ottawa Cochlear Implant Team ...

To the Editor: We have a concern regarding the report by Vincentelli et al. (July 24 issue)¹ on acquired von Willebrand syndrome in aortic stenosis. What is the true clinical relevance of the documented laboratory findings? In their study, 9 of 42 ...

To the Editor: Ribic et al. (July 17 issue)¹ investigated microsatellite instability as a predictor of a benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with stage II or stage III colon cancer, and their findings confirm that microsatellite instability ...

To the Editor: Bunch and colleagues (June 26 issue)¹ note that the quality of life of survivors after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was, in most respects, similar to that of the general population. Patients who have undergone treatment after a life-...

To the Editor: The results from the study by Ganzini et al. (July 24 issue)¹ were certainly thought provoking. However, it would have been interesting to learn how family members perceived the quality of the deaths of these patients. Physicians and ...

To the Editor: During the past several months, I have evaluated three children between 8 and 10 years of age who presented with a two-to-three-day history of generalized headaches. In each case, the headache was dull and the pain fluctuated throughout ...

Oncologists tend, by nature and occupation, to be optimists, whereas pathologists are more inclined to be pessimists; to put it another way, oncologists are romantics, whereas pathologists are realists. Thus, oncologists point out that in the past few ...

In Seeds of Mortality, Justman cleverly interweaves his own experience as a patient with cancer with reflections on works of literature, the visual arts, and philosophy to create an insightful commentary on how cancer is viewed by American society. This ...

This book was issued as a report by the National Cancer Policy Board, which was established in 1997 by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. The book is ambitious, and I approached it hoping to learn how to use our current knowledge ...

Binge Eating as a Phenotype of Melanocortin 4 Receptor Gene Mutations Correspondence, N Engl J Med 2003:349;606-609.. In the letter by Farooqi et al., the reference cited on the first line of the left-hand column of the text on page 608 should have been ...