To the Editor: Our teaching hospital was the site of a major outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).¹ We sequenced viral isolates cultured from clinical specimens from seven patients with SARS in this outbreak. The viral isolates were ...

To the Editor: Regarding the study by the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Network, discussed by Steinbrook (April 3 issue),¹ some may wonder whether the institutional review boards (IRBs) had enough information to evaluate the risks of this ...

To the Editor: In their article on the effects of luteinizing hormone–releasing hormone agonist in the treatment of adolescents with short stature, Yanovski et al. (March 6 issue)¹ predict that the deficit in bone mineral density will not be recovered, ...

To the Editor: We disagree with Nussbaum and Ellis's statement that gene variations other than the APOE ε4 allele are elusive in the nonfamilial form of Alzheimer's disease (April 3 issue).¹ The candidate-gene approach has already identified genes with a ...

To the Editor: Mantzouranis et al. (April 10 issue)¹ call attention to a feature of the patchy epithelial inflammatory disease we name according to the area of prime involvement as asthma, allergic rhinitis, or eczema. In adults, the manifestation noted ...

To the Editor: Six weeks after being bitten by a deer tick, a pregnant 31-year-old woman began to have fever, chills, fatigue, and neck pain. During the fifth day of fever, she became jaundiced and was hospitalized. On physical examination, she was 37 ...

Bellevue Hospital, probably the oldest hospital in America, began to serve George II's New York subjects in 1736 as a Public Workhouse and House of Correction with six beds for the sick. Included in the cost of construction were 50 gallons of rum. Forced ...

This textbook has many strengths. It is our current choice for students in our own course on physical diagnosis, and its earlier editions have been our choice for more than 10 years. The overall design of the book has much to recommend it. It is probably ...

An injured spinal cord adversely affects more organ systems than virtually any other disease entity and requires the ongoing attention of physicians in multiple specialties. This comprehensive book details the wide range of care needed for the management ...

Disaster medicine is perhaps the most interdisciplinary of all fields of medicine, and yet because disasters are relatively infrequent, few physicians are familiar with its principles, unique organizational demands, and clinical nuances. Because many of ...

Textbook of Ophthalmology is an impressive work. This 3000-page, four-volume set of books, edited by Sunita Agarwal and six others, was published in New Delhi in 2002. It contains 324 chapters written by more than 250 contributors and comes at the ...

Hodgkin's Disease — Clinical Trials and Travails Perspective, N Engl J Med 2003:348;2375-2376.. In the left-hand column on page 2376, lines 1 to 4 should have read “the risk of a second cancer among previously untreated patients after MOPP alone is less ...