To the Editor: The color image accompanying the editors' summary of the article by Tian et al. (Dec. 25 issue)¹ provides information that would be helpful in any future study on dickkopf 1 (DKK1) gene expression in multiple myeloma. The image is a whole-...

To the Editor: Attal et al. (Dec. 25 issue)¹ report that double autologous stem-cell transplantation improves overall survival among patients with multiple myeloma, especially those who do not have a very good partial response after a first ...

To the Editor: Stiell et al. (Dec. 25 issue)¹ report the sensitivity of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) low-risk criteria (NLC) for important cervical-spine injury to be 90.7 percent. This figure dramatically contrasts with ...

To the Editor: Although Schneider et al. (Jan. 8 issue)¹ state that the results of their analysis of the rates of use of high-cost procedures is “counterintuitive,” I suggest that their data are an expected result of physician-reimbursement structures. ...

To the Editor: I read Gillick's article on advance care planning (Jan. 1 issue)¹ with particular interest. When my husband had a cardiac arrest and fell onto my shoulder during a Pittsburgh Steelers football game on September 28, 2003, he did not have a ...

To the Editor: Although we applaud the insights in Gawande's Perspective article, “Dispatch from India” (Dec. 18 issue),¹ we would like to point out that his experience of conditions in Indian hospitals was, of necessity, a limited one. A two-month visit ...

To the Editor: In Images in Clinical Medicine (Dec. 11 issue),¹ Lee and Chandraratna provide evidence of dry gangrene in the right foot of a 62-year-old man and evidence of a mobile arch atheroma. They suggest that thromboembolism from atheroma is an ...

To the Editor: Although progressive stenosis of the arterial lumen constitutes the basis for ischemic symptoms in atherosclerotic vascular disease, acute vascular events are for the most part associated with instability of the plaque and formation of an ...

Our views of atherogenesis have evolved dramatically during the past several decades. The cholesterol hypothesis of the 1950s and 1960s led to the theory of endothelial injury in the 1970s and 1980s, which, in turn, developed into the concept that ...

Atherosclerosis is a big killer. No longer just the area of interest of cardiologists looking for a fixed narrowing in a coronary artery of a patient with angina, it is the target disease to beat for diabetologists, lipidologists, doctors specializing in ...

In 1985, J. Willis Hurst suggested that a short biographical and historical profile of a major contributor to the understanding and treatment of heart disease be included in the monthly issues of the journal Clinical Cardiology, of which C. Richard Conti ...

Emergency Contraception Clinical Practice, N Engl J Med 2003:349;1830-1835.. On page 1830, the statement in line 4 of the second paragraph under the heading “The Clinical Problem” should have read “was associated with a 24 percent probability that a ...