Table of Contents

Incidence of and Risk Factors for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients

• Deborah J. Cook,
• Stephen D. Walter,
• Richard J. Cook,
• Lauren E. Griffith,
• Gordon H. Guyatt,
• David Leasa,
• Roman Z. Jaeschke,
• and Christian Brun-Buisson

Opening the Black Box: How Do Physicians Communicate about Advance Directives?

• James A. Tulsky,
• Gary S. Fischer,
• Mary R. Rose,
• and Robert M. Arnold

Cumulative Epinephrine Dose during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Neurologic Outcome

• Wilhelm Behringer,
• Harald Kittler,
• Fritz Sterz,
• Hans Domanovits,
• Waltraud Schoerkhuber,
• Michael Holzer,
• Marcus Mullner,
• and Anton N. Laggner

Increased Serum Lipoprotein(a) Levels in Patients with Early Renal Failure

• Leonardo A. Sechi,
• Laura Zingaro,
• Stefano De Carli,
• Giovanni Sechi,
• Cristiana Catena,
• Edmondo Falleti,
• Elisabetta Dell'Anna,
• and Ettore Bartoli

Reinfection with the Agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

• Harold W. Horowitz,
• Maria Aguero-Rosenfeld,
• J. Stephen Dumler,
• Donna F. McKenna,
• Tze-chen Hsieh,
• Joseph Wu,
• Ira Schwartz,
• and Gary P. Wormser

Update in Infectious Diseases

• John G. Bartlett

Management of Pituitary Tumors

• Ilan Shimon and
• Shlomo Melmed

Electronic Patient-Physician Communication: Problems and Promise

• Kenneth D. Mandl,
• Isaac S. Kohane,
• and Allan M. Brandt

Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1: Clinical and Genetic Topics

• Stephen Marx,
• Allen M. Spiegel,
• Monica C. Skarulis,
• John L. Doppman,
• Francis S. Collins,
• and Lance A. Liotta

The Next Chapter in the High-Dose Epinephrine Story: Unfavorable Neurologic Outcomes?

• Richard O. Cummins and
• Mary Fran Hazinski

The Era of Adherence to HIV Therapy

• Frederick L. Altice and
• Gerald H. Friedland

Hepatitis A: A Potentially Serious Disease

• Miguel J. Rodriguez,
• Eugene R. Schiff,
• and Andreas G. Tzakis

Hepatitis A: A Potentially Serious Disease

• Seminur Haznedaroglu,
• Esin Ozyilkan,
• and Yasar Karaaslan

Hepatitis A: A Potentially Serious Disease

• Sachin Yende and
• Dan Lancaster

Hepatitis A: A Potentially Serious Disease

• Ira Willner,
• Caroline A. Riely,
• and Bradford Waters

Vancomycin-Associated Linear IgA Bullous Dermatosis

• Hossein C. Nousari,
• Constantino Costarangos,
• and Grant J. Anhalt

Linear IgA Bullous Dermatosis Associated with Vancomycin

• Eric F. Bernstein and
• Mindy Schuster

Regression of Metastatic Carcinoma of the Skin Appendages after Intralesional Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor

• Hakan Goker and
• Jacob D. Bitran

When Doctors Get Sick

• Carol Hutner Winograd

When Doctors Get Sick

• Howard M. Spiro and
• Harvey N. Mandell

Empirical Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

• Patricia D. Brown and
• Stephen A. Lerner

Empirical Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

• Michael S. Niederman

Psychiatric Disorders with a Biochemical Basis

• Michael J. Schrift

Physician's Guide to Drug Eruptions

• Howard Kurshenbaum

SI Units for Clinical Measurement

• Ivan Damjanov

Algorithmic Selection and Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests

• Ruric Anderson

Number of Uninsured Continues To Rise

• Linda Gundersen

Subsidized Health Care: The Hidden System

• Linda Gundersen

Remembering Medicine's Past

• Barron H. Lerner

Medical Notices