Table of Contents

Slow-Release Sodium Fluoride in the Management of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

• Charles Y. C. Pak,
• Khashayar Sakhaee,
• Veronica Piziak,
• Roy D. Peterson,
• Neil A. Breslau,
• Peggy Boyd,
• John R. Poindexter,
• Jean Herzog,
• Ann Heard-Sakhaee,
• Sharon Haynes,
• Beverley Adams-Huet,
• and Joan S. Reisch

Can Bruits Distinguish High-Grade from Moderate Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis?

• J. Stephane Sauve,
• Kevin E. Thorpe,
• David L. Sackett,
• Wayne Taylor,
• Henry J. M. Barnett,
• R. Brian Haynes,
• and Allan J. Fox

Comparison of Clinical Outcomes for Women and Men after Acute Myocardial Infarction

• Richard C. Becker,
• Michael Terrin,
• Richard Ross,
• Genell L. Knatterud,
• Patrice Desvigne-Nickens,
• Joel M. Gore,
• Eugene Braunwald,
• and Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Investigators*

Identical-Twin Bone Marrow Transplants for Leukemia

• Robert Peter Gale,
• Mary M. Horowitz,
• Robert C. Ash,
• Richard E. Champlin,
• John M. Goldman,
• Alfred A. Rimm,
• Olle Ringden,
• Judith A. Veum Stone,
• and Mortimer M. Bortin

Nosocomial Pneumonia in Mechanically Ventilated Patients Receiving Antacid, Ranitidine, or Sucralfate as Prophylaxis for Stress Ulcer: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Guy Prod'hom,
• Philippe Leuenberger,
• Jacques Koerfer,
• Andre Blum,
• Rene Chiolero,
• Marie-Denise Schaller,
• Claude Perret,
• Olivier Spinnler,
• Jacques Blondel,
• Hans Siegrist,
• Laylee Saghafi,
• Dominique Blanc,
• and Patrick Francioli

Calcium Antagonist-Induced Gingival Hyperplasia

• Ruth M. Steele,
• Arthur A. Schuna,
• and Ronald T. Schreiber

Fulminant Hepatic Failure from a Sea Anemone Sting

• Patricia J. Garcia,
• Roland M. H. Schein,
• and Joseph W. Burnett

Guidelines for Meta-analyses Evaluating Diagnostic Tests

• Les Irwig,
• Anna N. A. Tosteson,
• Constantine Gatsonis,
• Joseph Lau,
• Graham Colditz,
• Thomas C. Chalmers,
• and Frederick Mosteller

What Is the Oslerian Tradition?

• Charles S. Bryan

Grass Roots Participation in Health Care Reform

• Ralph Crawshaw

Fluoride and Osteoporosis

• Robert P. Heaney

To Respond Always

• Douglas R. Mailman

Potential Risk of Prolonged Gamma-linolenic Acid Use

• Stephen Phinney

Potential Risk of Prolonged Gamma-linolenic Acid Use

• Robert B. Zurier

Morphine for Dyspnea in Patients with Cancer

• Steven H. Krasnow,
• Robert G. Wadleigh,
• and Martin H. Cohen

Morphine for Dyspnea in Patients with Cancer

• Eduardo Bruera and
• Robin L. Fainsinger

Thrombocytopenia and Illicit Drug Use

• Theodore E. Warkentin

Prednisone in Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Thomas J. Romano

Prednisone in Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Roland F. J. M. Laan,
• Piet L. C. M. van Riel,
• and Levinus B. A. van de Putte

Death from an Unconventional Therapy for AIDS

• Robert E. Hirschtick,
• Susan E. Dyrda,
• and LoAnn C. Peterson

Primary Selective IgA Deficiency

• Giovanni Gambaro,
• Amelia Ruffatti,
• and Augusto Antonello

Myocardial Infarction in a Patient Who Smoked while Wearing a Nicotine Patch

• James G. Warner, Jr. and
• William C. Little

Simplified Bedside Thoracentesis

• Bert Govig and
• Marc Baltzan

Atrial Myxoma Mimicking Lyme Disease

• Francesco Drago,
• Guido Nazzari,
• and Franco Crovato

Case Reports and Causality

• Fred I. Gilbert, Jr.

Surgeons and Internists

• Christine S. Hunter

Surgeons and Internists

• Susan Rosenthal

Physicians Married to Physicians

• Lou-Anne M. Beauregard

Physicians Married to Physicians

• Miriam Greenberg and
• Sheldon Greenberg

Physicians Married to Physicians

• Cynda Ann Johnson and
• Bruce E. Johnson

Rewarding Women in Academic Medicine

• Allen B. Weisse

Rewarding Women in Academic Medicine

• Phyllis L. Carr,
• Lewis E. Kazis,
• and Mark A. Moskowitz

Correction: Incorrect Incidence Rate and Omitted Author

• B. Honigman,
• M. K. Theis,
• J. Koziol-McLain,
• R. Roach,
• P. Pearce,
• and R. Yip

Correction: Error in Letter

Correction: Incorrect Statement in Table of Contents

• B. Cujec,
• P. Polasek,
• I. Mayers,
• and D. Johnson

Correction: Error in Abstract

• F. Cosman,
• V. Shen,
• F. Xie,
• M. Seibel,
• A. Ratcliffe,
• and R. Lindsay

A Library for Internists VIII: Recommendations from the American College of Physicians

• Joseph J. Mazza*

Phase II Trial

• John Graham-Pole

Venipuncture

• John Graham-Pole