Medicine
Protecting the Children of Haiti
Haiti has long had difficulty in protecting its children from harm. The earthquake that struck the country on January 12 destroyed much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, as it killed many ...
Recovering from Disaster -- Partners in Health and the Haitian Earthquake
The earthquake of January 12 killed many of Haiti's doctors and nurses and destroyed a large part of the country's medical infrastructure. But Zanmi Lasante (ZL), the Haitian branch of ...
Medicare's Opportunity to Encourage Innovation in Health Care Delivery
The Democrats' loss of their 60-vote Senate majority after Massachusetts' January 19 special election creates major challenges for passage of comprehensive national health care reform. Critics of the Democrats' proposals ...
Weighing Risks and Benefits of Liraglutide -- The FDA's Review of a New Antidiabetic Therapy
Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects approximately 24 million people in the United States, is the leading cause of kidney failure and blindness, and is associated with a doubling to quadrupling ...
Comparison of Dopamine and Norepinephrine in the Treatment of Shock
Ethosuximide, Valproic Acid, and Lamotrigine in Childhood Absence Epilepsy
Glycated Hemoglobin, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk in Nondiabetic Adults
A Trial of a 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in HIV-Infected Adults
Current Concepts: Management of Varices and Variceal Hemorrhage in Cirrhosis
Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection
A baby girl was delivered prematurely, at 30 weeks' gestation, by emergency cesarean section owing to deceleration and no acceleration on fetal heart-rate monitoring. In addition, she had severe intrauterine ...
Neuropathic Ulceration
A 61-year-old man with a 15-year history of diabetes and resulting foot neuropathy presented with an ulcer of 3 months' duration overlying the first metatarsal head (Panel A). He was ...
Stalking the Diagnosis
Treating Shock -- Old Drugs, New Ideas
Circulatory shock is a medical emergency that is characterized by hypotension and decreased tissue perfusion; if left untreated, it can lead to irreversible cellular injury and death. Hypotension associated with ...
Ethosuximide in Childhood Absence Epilepsy -- Older and Better
Where did our wisdom about treating epilepsy originate? The ketogenic diet came from ancient teachings. The mistaken belief that seizures were caused by sexual excess led to bromides. Modern medications ...
Collection of Data on Patients' Race and Ethnic Group by Physician Practices
On-Pump versus Off-Pump CABG
To the Editor: In the Veterans Affairs Randomized On/Off Bypass (ROOBY) trial, Shroyer et al. (Nov. 5 issue)1 assigned 2203 ...
A Controlled Trial of Initial Antiviral Regimens for HIV-1 Infection
To the Editor: Sax et al. (Dec. 3 issue)1 found that abacavir-lamivudine was less potent than tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (DF)-emtricitabine ...
Effects of Obesity and Smoking on U.S. Life Expectancy
To the Editor: Mortality from adult obesity and from persistent smoking have already been reliably assessed in studies of tens ...
Repair of Mitral-Valve Prolapse
To the Editor: In the review article by Verma and Mesana (Dec. 3 issue),1 mitral-valve prolapse is defined as the ...
A Crisis in Late Pregnancy
To the Editor: In the article by Desai et al. (Dec. 3 issue),1 the electrocardiogram has the characteristics of one ...
