Articles
The Effect of Intensive Diabetes Therapy on the Development and Progression of Neuropathy
The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group.
Late Relapses in Patients Successfully Treated for Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
Kenneth H. Shumak, Gail A. Rock, and Rama C. Nair, The Canadian Apheresis Group.
Quantitation of HIV-1 RNA in Plasma Predicts Outcome after Seroconversion
John W. Mellors, Lawrence A. Kingsley, Charles R. Rinaldo, John A. Todd, Brad S. Hoo, Robert P. Kokka, and Phalguni Gupta
Risk Factors for a Positive Tuberculin Skin Test among Employees of an Urban, Midwestern Teaching Hospital
Thomas C. Bailey, Victoria J. Fraser, Edward L. Spitznagel, and W. Claiborne Dunagan
Hepatic Hepatitis C Virus RNA as a Predictor of a Long-Term Response to Interferon- Therapy
Michiko Shindo, Ken Arai, Yoshihiro Sokawa, and Tadao Okuno
Brief Communications
Methotrexate Treatment of Idiopathic Granulomatous Hepatitis
Tamsin A. Knox, Marshall M. Kaplan, Jeffrey A. Gelfand, and Sheldon M. Wolff
Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole for the Prevention of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Cirrhosis: A Randomized Trial
Nina Singh, Timothy Gayowski, Victor L. Yu, and Marilyn M. Wagener
Academia and Clinic
Literature and Medicine: Contributions to Clinical Practice
Rita Charon, Joanne Trautmann Banks, Julia E. Connelly, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, Anne Hudson Jones, Martha Montello, and Suzanne Poirer
Perspectives
Perceptions and Misperceptions of Skin Color
Stephen H. Caldwell and Rebecca Popenoe
Medicine and Public Issues
The Role of the Physician and the Medical Profession in the Prevention of International Torture and in the Treatment of Its Survivors
American College of Physicians*
Position Papers
Emergency Brain Resuscitation
A Working Group on Emergency Brain Resuscitation.
Editorials
Literature, Humanities, and the Internist
Henry Schneiderman and Rosemaria Memoli Schneiderman
Identifying Ethnicity in Medical Papers
Edward J. Huth
On Being a Doctor
From an Observer
Bonnie B. Smith
Letters
Risks for Bleeding in Patients with Pulmonary Embolism Treated with Thrombolytic Agents
Paul D. Stein, Russell D. Hull, and Gary Raskob—RESPONSE
Osteomalacia and Phenytoin Therapy
Clinical Management of the Constipated Patient
John H. Pemberton, Michael Camilleri, and James W. Fleshman—RESPONSE
Prophylaxis for Stress-Related Gastric Hemorrhage
Ronald Fogel, Tamir Ben-Menachem, and Robert S. Bresalier—RESPONSE
Cytokines in Polymyalgia and Giant Cell Arteritis
Cornelia M. Weyand, Jorg J. Goronzy, and Gene G. Hunder—RESPONSE
Fogging in Infrared Tympanic and Ear Thermometry
HLA Typing in Patients with Wegener Granulomatosis
Mary Frances Cotch, Anthony S. Fauci, and Gary S. Hoffman
Change from Specialist to Generalist
Nicholas A. Christakis, Jerry A. Jacobs, and Carla M. Messikomer
Acute Hepatitis Associated with Jin Bu Huan
Literature of Medicine
Reviews and Notes: Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace"
Reviews and Notes: Gastroenterology: The Gastrointestinal Surgical Patient: Preoperative and Postoperative Care
Reviews and Notes: Gastroenterology: The Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
Reviews and Notes: Gastroenterology: Peritonitis
Reviews and Notes: Surgery: Going under: Preparing Yourself for Anesthesia
Reviews and Notes: Surgery: Complications of Trauma
Reviews and Notes: Surgery: Emergency Procedures and Techniques
Reviews and Notes: Neurology: Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine
Reviews and Notes: Neurology: Functional Neural Transplantation
Reviews and Notes: Neurology: Sleep Disorders Medicine: Basic Science, Technical Considerations, and Clinical Aspects
Reviews and Notes: Neurology: The Management of Head Injuries
Reviews and Notes: Neurology: Recovering at Home after a Stroke: A Practical Guide for You & Your Family
Reviews and Notes: Neurology: Movement Disorders 3
Reviews and Notes: Nephrology: Color Atlas of Renal Diseases
Reviews and Notes: Nephrology: Bucket Diagrams: A Problem-Solving Approach to Renal Physiology
Reviews and Notes: Pulmonary Medicine: Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation
Reviews and Notes: Pulmonary Medicine: The Pulmonary Circulation and Gas Exchange
Reviews and Notes: Pulmonary Medicine: Bronchoscopy