To the Editor: Ojo et al. (Sept. 4 issue)¹ describe a growing problem: renal failure after nonrenal transplantation. However, the authors use a calculated glomerular filtration rate (from the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD] study²), which ...

To the Editor: In their report on the withdrawal of mechanical ventilation in anticipation of a patient's death, Cook et al. (Sept. 18 issue)¹ state that their findings “suggest that the process of withdrawal of life support is attentive to patients' ...

To the Editor: The study by Fudala et al. (Sept. 4 issue)¹ may have underestimated the percentage of urine specimens that were positive for opioids in both groups. Urinary drug testing was performed with the use of an immunoassay and did not include gas ...

To the Editor: The article by Crowther et al. (Sept. 18 issue)¹ addresses an important question in the field of hematology. However, the results cannot be used to conclude that moderate-intensity anticoagulation is not inferior to high-intensity ...

To the Editor: Wilschanski et al. (Oct. 9 issue)¹ report that full-length cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein was expressed more effectively on the surface of nasal epithelial cells after gentamicin treatment than after ...

To the Editor: Alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) is a humanized monoclonal antibody directed against CD52, a glycosylated peptide antigen that is expressed on normal lymphocytes and highly expressed on chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells. It has been shown to have ...

To the Editor: The use of recombinant human erythropoietin in patients with kidney disease is widespread and has been associated with few complications. Recent reports have suggested that the incidence of pure red-cell aplasia is increasing among ...

This book is not so much a critical assessment of Christian Science as it is a densely researched narrative of how this unusual, but enduring, form of medicine and religion developed. Through detailed accounts of testimony given in various legal ...

“What kept me going was, I think, that writing for me is a way of understanding what is happening to me, of thinking hard things out,” the poet May Sarton wrote. “. . . Perhaps it is the need to remake order out of chaos over and over again. For art is ...

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides, 556–468 B.C.

Other physicians who are writers provoke readers with dramatic scenes from the vantage point of the bedside, but Rafael Campo uses a palette of poetry to ...

A Comparison of Two Intensities of Warfarin for the Prevention of Recurrent Thrombosis in Patients with the Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Original Article, N Engl J Med 2003:349;1133-1138.. On page 1136, in Table 1, the number (percentage) of ...