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Clarithromycin Therapy for Bacteremic Mycobacterium avium Complex Disease: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Dose-Ranging Study in Patients with AIDS

• Richard E. Chaisson,
• Constance A. Benson,
• Michael P. Dube,
• Leonid B. Heifets,
• Joyce A. Korvick,
• Saralyn Elkin,
• Ted Smith,
• J. Carl Craft,
• Fred R. Sattler,
• and AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 157 Study Team.

End-Stage Renal Disease Attributable to Diabetes Mellitus

• Thomas V. Perneger,
• Frederick L. Brancati,
• Paul K. Whelton,
• and Michael J. Klag

Changes in Mortality after Myocardial Revascularization in the Elderly: The National Medicare Experience

• Eric D. Peterson,
• James G. Jollis,
• Judith D. Bebchuk,
• Elizabeth R. DeLong,
• Lawrence H. Muhlbaier,
• Daniel B. Mark,
• and David B. Pryor

The Efficacy of Acarbose in the Treatment of Patients with Non–Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: A Multicenter, Controlled Clinical Trial

• Jean-Louis Chiasson,
• Robert G. Josse,
• John A. Hunt,
• Carol Palmason,
• N. Wilson Rodger,
• Stuart A. Ross,
• Edmond A. Ryan,
• Meng H. Tan,
• and Thomas M. S. Wolever*

Estrogen Improves Endothelium-Dependent, Flow-Mediated Vasodilation in Postmenopausal Women

• Eric H. Lieberman,
• Marie D. Gerhard,
• Akimi Uehata,
• Brian W. Walsh,
• Andrew P. Selwyn,
• Peter Ganz,
• Alan C. Yeung,
• and Mark A. Creager

Cutaneous Vasculitis as the Initial Manifestation in Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia

• Konstantinos Bourantas,
• Vasiliki D. Malamou-Mitsi,
• Leonidas Christou,
• Spiridoula Filippidou,
• and Alexandros A. Drosos

Hypoglycemia-Induced Angina Pectoris in a Patient with Diabetes Mellitus

• Elia Duh and
• Mark Feinglos

Influenza Vaccination Programs for Elderly Persons: Cost-Effectiveness in a Health Maintenance Organization

• John P. Mullooly,
• Marjorie D. Bennett,
• Mark C. Hornbrook,
• William H. Barker,
• Walter W. Williams,
• Peter A. Patriarca,
• and Phillip H. Rhodes

The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study

• Keiji Fukuda,
• Stephen E. Straus,
• Ian Hickie,
• Michael C. Sharpe,
• James G. Dobbins,
• Anthony Komaroff,
• and International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study Group.

Multiple-Sensor Systems for Physiologic Cardiac Pacing

• David G. Benditt,
• Marcus Mianulli,
• Keith Lurie,
• Scott Sakaguchi,
• and Stuart Adler

Mucocutaneous and Soft Tissue Infections Caused by Xanthomonas maltophilia: A New Spectrum

• Shahe E. Vartivarian,
• Konstantinos A. Papadakis,
• Jose Antonio Palacios,
• John T. Manning,
• and Elias J. Anaissie

Clarithromycin Therapy for Mycobacterium avium Complex Disease in Patients with AIDS: Potential and Problems

• Mark Goldberger and
• Henry Masur

Evaluation of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department

• Sanjiv Kaul and
• Robert D. Abbott

Never Again, Lisa: Childhood Diabetes in a Dysfunctional Family

• Ellen L. Toth

Fever: Blessing or Curse?

• Eric Schwam

Fever: Blessing or Curse?

• Peter A. Ubel

Fever: Blessing or Curse?

• Robert A. Fischer

Fever: Blessing or Curse?

• Gary Schiller

Fever: Blessing or Curse?

• Richard B. Johnson

Fever: Blessing or Curse?

• Daniel B. Hrdy

Noninvasive Ventilation

• Marco Confalonieri,
• Stefano Aiolfi,
• and Alessandro Scartabellati

Fever: Blessing or Curse?

• Alberto Lifshitz

Fever: Blessing or Curse?

• Philip A. Mackowiak

Noninvasive Ventilation

• Nicholas S. Hill and
• Thomas Meyer

Coelenterate Sting

• Steven L. Oscherwitz

Coelenterate Sting

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

Methamphetamine-induced Choreoathetosis and Rhabdomyolysis

• Laurence S. Sperling and
• Jennifer L. Horowitz

Blueberry Muffins and Mystery Novels

• William Burns

Blueberry Muffins and Mystery Novels

• Mark Linzer

Editorials: Author in Reference: Adult Immunizations 1994

• Task Force on Adult Immunizations.

The Internist's Reading: Contextualizing Illness

• Rebecca J. Kurth

Reviews and Notes: Teenage Health Care: The First Comprehensive Family Guide to Promoting Good Health and Understanding Illness from the Preteen to Young Adult Years

Reviews and Notes: Geriatrics: Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics

Reviews and Notes: History of Medicine: Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweiss

Reviews and Notes: Pharmacology: The Pharmacologic Approach to the Critically Ill Patient

Reviews and Notes: Pharmacology: Beneficial and Toxic Effects of Aspirin

Reviews and Notes: Human Immunodeficiency Virus: AIDS and Intravenous Drug Use: The Influence of Mortality, Politics, Social Science, and Race in the Making of a Tragedy

Reviews and Notes: Human Immunodeficiency Virus: AIDS in Africa

Reviews and Notes: Human Immunodeficiency Virus: AIDS: Images of the Epidemic

Reviews and Notes: Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia

Reviews and Notes: Ophthalmology: Environmental Vision: Interaction of the Eye, Vision, and the Environment

Reviews and Notes: Ophthalmology: The Cornea

Anatomy Lesson