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Alendronate Prevents Postmenopausal Bone Loss in Women without Osteoporosis: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial

• Michael McClung,
• Bjorg Clemmesen,
• Anastasia Daifotis,
• Nigel L. Gilchrist,
• John Eisman,
• Robert S. Weinstein,
• Ghada El Hajj Fuleihan,
• Celia Reda,
• A. John Yates,
• and Pernille Ravn

The Role of Carotid Arterial Intima-Media Thickness in Predicting Clinical Coronary Events

• Howard N. Hodis,
• Wendy J. Mack,
• Laurie LaBree,
• Robert H. Selzer,
• Chao-ran Liu,
• Ci-hua Liu,
• and Stanley P. Azen

Relation of Factor V Leiden Genotype to Risk for Acute Deep Venous Thrombosis after Joint Replacement Surgery

• Daniel H. Ryan,
• Mark A. Crowther,
• Jeffrey S. Ginsberg,
• and Charles W. Francis

The Meditations

• Marcus Aurelius

Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis in Asymptomatic Women Attending Family Planning Clinics: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Three Strategies

• M. Rene Howell,
• Thomas C. Quinn,
• and Charlotte A. Gaydos

Clinical Profile and Outcome in 52 Patients with Cardiac Pseudoaneurysm

• Tiong Cheng Yeo,
• Joe F. Malouf,
• Jae K. Oh,
• and James B. Seward

The Effect of Estrogen Replacement Therapy on Plasma Nitric Oxide and Endothelin-1 Levels in Postmenopausal Women

• Patricia J.M. Best,
• Peter B. Berger,
• Virginia M. Miller,
• and Amir Lerman

A Treatise on Probability; New York: MacMillan; 1921

• John Maynard Keynes

Physicians as Leaders in Improving Health Care: A New Series in Annals of Internal Medicine

• Donald M. Berwick and
• Thomas W. Nolan

Understanding Medical Systems

• Thomas W. Nolan

The Care of Persons with Recent Sexual Exposure to HIV

• Mitchell H. Katz and
• Julie Louise Gerberding

Bone Mass, Bone Loss, and Osteoporosis Prophylaxis

• Robert P. Heaney

Heartsick

• Julia E. McMurray

Communicating End-of-Life Decisions

• Brendan M. Reilly

Communicating End-of-Life Decisions

• Ethan A. Halm

Communicating End-of-Life Decisions

• Russell S. Phillips,
• Jan C. Hofmann,
• and Neil Wenger

Indinavir and Interstitial Nephritis

• Mario Sarcletti,
• Anton Petter,
• and Robert Zangerle

Indinavir and Interstitial Nephritis

• Jeffrey B. Kopp,
• Kirk D. Miller,
• and Judith Falloon

Light Microscopy of Indinavir Urinary Crystals

• Raymonde F. Gagnon,
• Christos M. Tsoukas,
• and Andrew K. Watters

Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt or Sclerotherapy: Which Would You Choose?

• John B. Marshall and
• Paul D. King

Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt or Sclerotherapy: Which Would You Choose?

• Harold O. Conn

Locating and Appraising Systematic Reviews

• Aldemar Araujo Castro,
• Alvaro Nagib Atallah,
• and Otavio Augusto Camara Clark

Locating and Appraising Systematic Reviews

• Carl D. Atkins

Locating and Appraising Systematic Reviews

• Dereck L. Hunt and
• K. Ann McKibbon

What's Wrong with This Picture?

• Michael Berkwits

What's Wrong with This Picture?

• David B. Gilbert

What's Wrong with This Picture?

• Samuel A. Brody

Preoperative Echocardiography for Noncardiac Surgery

• John M. Rich

Preoperative Echocardiography for Noncardiac Surgery

• Herman O. Klein

Oral Immunosuppressive Therapy for Acquired Hemophilia

• David Green

Oral Immunosuppressive Therapy for Acquired Hemophilia

• Linda G. Shaffer and
• Martin D. Phillips

Costs of Amphotericin B Lipid Complex for Kala-Azar

• Buddha Basnyat

Costs of Amphotericin B Lipid Complex for Kala-Azar

• Shyam Sundar and
• Henry W. Murray

Aspirin in In-Flight Emergencies

• Victor S. Sloan

Aspirin in In-Flight Emergencies

• Alfred F. Parisi

Drug-Induced Evans Syndrome

• Yi-Kong Keung,
• Maria-Claudia Mallarino,
• and Everado Cobos

Nebulizer-Induced Anisocoria

• Karin Lust and
• Iain Livingstone

Building the Best Team

• Robert Matz

Building the Best Team

• Richard R. Babb

Building the Best Team

• Ira S. Nash and
• David B. Nash

Advising Patients Who Seek Alternative Medicine

• Charles M. Bagley Jr.

Advising Patients Who Seek Alternative Medicine

• Gordon D. Heinrichs

Advising Patients Who Seek Alternative Medicine

• Douglas F. Stalker

Advising Patients Who Seek Alternative Medicine

• Wayne B. Jonas and
• Carol I. Hudgings

Advising Patients Who Seek Alternative Medicine

• David Eisenberg

Correction: Incorrect Dosage

Correction: Acquired Hemophilia and Oral Immunosuppressive Therapy

Correction: Letter Title

Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the U.S. 1997/98

• Eugene C. Rich

Current Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus

• John B. Buse

Auscultation of the Heart: A Cardiophonetic Approach

• Diane E. Wallis

Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection: New Theories and an Old Remedy

• David A. Cramer

Evidence-Based Medicine Gaining Supporters

• Aaron Levin

News Notes

Itch

• D.A. Feinfeld

For Dr. Williams*

• Bonnie Salomon

The Cracking of the Mold

• Fredric L. Coe

The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World; Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Pr; 1975

• Guido Majno