To the Editor: Rubenfeld and colleagues (Oct. 20 issue)¹ discuss the incidence and outcomes of acute lung injury in a large, population-based cohort study. The authors provide data on the known risk factors of acute lung injury and convincingly suggest ...

To the Editor: Ashen and Blumenthal (Sept. 22 issue)¹ state that caution is recommended with the use of high-dose niacin in patients with diabetes, because niacin may increase glucose levels. However, the Arterial Disease Multiple Intervention Trial (...

To the Editor: The Medical Mystery in the December 1 issue¹ involved a 71-year-old man with lower-extremity ecchymosis (Figure 1) and gingivitis (Figure 2, arrows). He was a retired Army man living alone with a modest income. He had poor nutritional ...

To the Editor: Pinero et al. (Nov. 3 issue)¹ describe a 74-year-old man with Parkinson's disease in whom severe mitral regurgitation developed after a relatively short course of treatment with cabergoline, an ergot dopamine agonist. Cabergoline is used ...

To the Editor: The use of data on self-reported race in health research has been highly debated.¹,² For example, Burchard et al. recently argued that important information on disease susceptibility may be derived from the use of data on self-reported ...

To the Editor: Parkinson's disease is characterized by resting tremor, rigidity, and bradykinesia caused by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, a good response to levodopa, and the presence of Lewy bodies. The recently identified ...

To the Editor: Most cases of Parkinson's disease are considered sporadic and idiopathic, although there is evidence of familial aggregation, and several monogenic forms have been identified.¹ Recently, several pathogenic mutations in the highly conserved ...