To the Editor: Roman et al.¹ and Asanuma et al.² (Dec. 18 issue) document accelerated development of atherosclerosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the implication being that atherosclerosis causes ischemic heart disease.³ Other ...

To the Editor: Vissing and Haller (Dec. 25 issue)¹ show that sucrose ingestion before exercise can markedly improve aerobic exercise tolerance in patients with McArdle's disease. However, as the authors note, this strategy may lead to increased insulin ...

To the Editor: In the article on acute infectious diarrhea by Thielman and Guerrant (Jan. 1 issue),¹ we did not find any information on the role of probiotics. Treatment of acute infectious diarrhea is probably the main application of probiotic therapy ...

To the Editor: The Six Cities Study by Dockery et al.¹ has captured renewed attention (Jan. 8 issue).²,³ Claiming to identify an increased mortality rate in Steubenville, Ohio, as compared with the rate in Portage, Wisconsin, the authors posited that air ...

To the Editor: In our review of the book Christian Science on Trial (Dec. 25 issue),¹ we inadvertently misrepresented the views of physicians Larry Dossey and Andrew Weil. We made the following statement: “If the materialism of modern medicine tends to ...

To the Editor: In view of recent concern about the recurrence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangdong, China, we would like to highlight the tremendous importance of sensitivity in testing for the SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). ...

To the Editor: The cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are contraindicated in pregnancy¹; therefore, few data exist regarding their safety in human gestation. We reviewed 178 cases of first-trimester statin exposure reported to the Food and Drug ...

The debate in America over abortion and research with human embryos is so polarized that it is easy to forget that today's passionately held views of the intrinsic moral status of the embryo are but the latest in an ever-evolving understanding of human ...

During the past decade, the perspectives of nuclear medicine have been totally transformed. This field is no longer only an imaging specialty that provides some functional information; it is progressively acquiring a central role in the understanding of ...

Apart from the money, is the Nobel Prize worthwhile? Dr. Raymond Damadian, who claims to have discovered magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), seems to think so, because he went public with an expensive campaign of full-page advertisements in the New York ...

“Me Too” Products — Friend or Foe? Perspective, N Engl J Med 2004:350;211-212.. On page 212, in the table, the FDA approval date for the proton-pump inhibitor omeprazole should have been September 1989, not January 1999, as printed.