To the Editor: Block and colleagues¹ (April 8 issue) found a significant reduction in intact parathyroid hormone levels in patients with uncontrolled secondary hyperparathyroidism who received cinacalcet. The primary end point of intact parathyroid ...

To the Editor: In their report on 10 years of alendronate therapy for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, Bone et al. (March 18 issue)¹ mention the long retention time of alendronate in bone as an advantage. This view is based on the fact that the ...

To the Editor: We agree with Dr. Groopman (March 18 issue)¹ that religious faith may be an essential part of coping with illness and death for many patients and doctors, affecting the quality of life if not medical outcomes. Although many patients raise ...

To the Editor: Dr. Darouiche (April 1 issue)¹ discusses the treatment of infections associated with surgical implants but does not point out that postherniorrhaphy mesh infections constitute a significant proportion of such infections. Approximately 1 ...

To the Editor: Roodman (April 15 issue)¹ stated that in osteolytic metastases, the destruction of bone is mediated by osteoclasts rather than tumor cells, whereas the mechanisms of osteoblastic metastases and the factors involved are unknown. It would be ...

To the Editor: Basaria and Salvatori (March 25 issue) present superb photographs of a patient with Pemberton's sign in Images in Clinical Medicine.¹ However, the accompanying computed tomographic (CT) scan of the thyroid gland appears to have been ...

To the Editor: In a recent article in the Journal, Tian et al. showed the power of microarray data mining in finding new links between single genes (e.g., dickkopf1 [DKK1]) and clinical features of a disease (in the case of DKK1, bone lesions in multiple ...

A handbook that is intended to cover clinical research and practice in the area of eating disorders and obesity should be representative of the field, provide critical guidance, and be accessible to the nonspecialist. According to these criteria, this ...

Neuropathy is one of the earliest — and most common — chronic complications of diabetes. For some patients, the condition is simply an annoyance and results in occasional numbness and tingling here and there. But neuropathy can forebode infection, loss of ...

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 1137, in the first row of Table 2 (“All patients”), ...

Antiplatelet Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease Editorial, N Engl J Med 2004:350;277-280.. On page 278, in Table 1, under the heading “Patients undergoing PCI,” the cost of treatment with aspirin should be $0.04/day, rather than $0.12/day, as printed.