To the Editor: The article by Contreras et al. (March 4 issue)¹ on the treatment of proliferative lupus nephritis omitted some important issues. Only the median duration of treatment was provided, but the interquartile ranges would have been helpful, ...

To the Editor: Choi et al. (March 11 issue)¹ studied diet in relation to gout but did not control for the use of aspirin or diuretics. These agents are used by a very large number of people. They raise uric acid levels, and they cause gout.

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To the Editor: We commend Gladwin et al. (Feb. 26 issue)¹ on their large prospective study of pulmonary hypertension in the population of patients with sickle cell disease. The pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease remains unclear ...

To the Editor: In his review of cellulitis (Feb. 26 issue),¹ Swartz does not stress the effect that the emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has had on treatment strategies for a “usual case of cellulitis” at many ...

To the Editor: We appreciate Schafer's concise approach to thrombocytosis (March 18 issue)¹ but are less enthusiastic about promoting anagrelide as first-line therapy for patients with essential thrombocythemia. There have been no controlled trials of ...

To the Editor: In a review article on diabetic retinopathy (Jan. 1 issue),¹ Frank stated that the mechanism for the effect of panretinal, or scatter, laser treatment on diabetic retinopathy is unclear. Two references, from 1978 and 1982, were cited to ...

To the Editor: McCormack and Rabbitts (Feb. 26 issue)¹ discuss the role of activation of the T-cell oncogene LMO2 in inducing clonal T-cell proliferation in two patients after gene therapy for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a condition ...

To the Editor: As illustrated in Case 40-2003 (Dec. 25 issue),¹ it is often difficult to find the source of infection in a child who has tuberculosis. In 2001, we cared for a five-month-old girl who presented with miliary tuberculosis and multiple ...

Both Mark Twain and his alter ego, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), had opinions about everything; they certainly had a lot to say about American medicine as it was practiced from the mid-19th century into the early 20th century.

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Theobald Smith is best remembered today for the discovery in the 1880s, with Daniel E. Salmon, of the organisms that cause Texas cattle fever and hog cholera. As this lucidly written biography argues, there was a good deal more to Smith than that: he was ...

Soluble TREM-1 and the Diagnosis of Pneumonia Correspondence, N Engl J Med 2004:350;1904-1905.. On page 1904, in the right-hand column, the names of the authors should have been listed as Hugues Georges, M.D., Olivier Leroy, M.D., and Benoit Guery, M.D., ...