TABLE OF CONTENTS 15 October 1996 Volume 125 Issue 8	Previous Issue  |  Next Issue

Withdrawing Life Support from Mechanically Ventilated Recipients of Bone Marrow Transplants: A Case for Evidence-Based Guidelines

Gordon D. Rubenfeld and Stephen W. Crawford

Hepatitis C Virus Genotypes in the United States: Epidemiology, Pathogenicity, and Response to Interferon Therapy

Nizar N. Zein, Jorge Rakela, Edward L. Krawitt, K. Rajender Reddy, Tomonari Tominaga, and David H. Persing

Important Elements of Outpatient Care: A Comparison of Patients' and Physicians' Opinions

Christine Laine, Frank Davidoff, Charles E. Lewis, Eugene C. Nelson, Elizabeth Nelson, Ronald C. Kessler, and Thomas L. Delbanco

Diagnosis of 22 New Cases of Bartonella Endocarditis

Didier Raoult, Pierre E. Fournier, Michel Drancourt, Thomas J. Marrie, Jerome Etienne, Julie Cosserat, Patrice Cacoub, Yves Poinsignon, Pascale Leclercq, and Armine M. Sefton

Association of Fibrinogen with Glycemic Control and Albumin Excretion Rate in Patients with Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

Graziella Bruno, Paolo Cavallo-Perin, Giuseppe Bargero, Milena Borra, Nicola D'Errico, and Gianfranco Pagano

Hepatitis C

Ala I. Sharara, Christine M. Hunt, and John D. Hamilton

The Medicalization of Race: Scientific Legitimization of a Flawed Social Construct

Ritchie Witzig

Immunologic Dissonance: A Continuing Evolution in Our Understanding of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and the Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)

Roger C. Bone

Medical Futility: Response to Critiques

Lawrence J. Schneiderman, Nancy S. Jecker, and Albert R. Jonsen

Odds and Ends: Trust and the Debate over Medical Futility

Arthur L. Caplan

Everyone Sang

Frank Davidoff

The Bet

Dennis H. Novack

Midline Catheterization in Hospitalized Patients

John P. Manzella, Geraldine A. Stott, and Deborah Maust

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A.J. Moorcroft, R. Niven, and S. Quantrill

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Timothy C. Evans

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Abba I. Terr and Daniel A. Bloch

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M. Eric Gershwin

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Suzanne Parisian

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Leonard A. Mermel, Stephen Parenteau, and Sen Mee Tow—RESPONSE

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Efficacy of Holter Monitors

David A. Lantz

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Scott Kinlay and James W. Leitch—RESPONSE

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Bell Palsy and Herpes Simplex Virus

P.P. Devriese

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Shingo Murakami and Naoaki Yanagihara—RESPONSE

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Ribavirin for Chronic Hepatitis C

Marvin A. Chinitz

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Adrian M. Di Bisceglie and Jay H. Hoofnagle—RESPONSE

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Treatment of -1-Antitrypsin Deficiency, Massive Edema, and Panniculitis with -1 Protease Inhibitor

Nancy Lee Furey, Robert S. Golden, and Steven R. Potts

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Effect of Ethinyl Estradiol on Chronic Active Hepatitis

Joseph M. Guattery, William W. Faloon, and Daniel L. Biery

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Spinal Accessory Nerve Injury as a Complication of Internal Jugular Vein Cannulation

Stephen Burns and Gerald J. Herbison

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Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Associated with Parvovirus B19 Infection

Akira Kasuga, Reiko Harada, and Takao Saruta

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Pancreatitis Induced by Clarithromycin

Leibovitch Liviu, Levy Yair, and Shoenfeld Yehuda

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Pruritus Associated with Cholestatic Liver Disease

Y. Horsmans and A.P. Geubel

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Correction: Relapsing Group B Streptococcal Infection

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Correction: Author Address

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Literature of Medicine 

Reviews and Notes: On the Ledge: A Doctor's Stories from the Inner City

Rita Charon

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Reviews and Notes: HIV Medicine: Strong Shadows: Scenes from an Inner City AIDS Clinic

Susan J. Rehm

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Reviews and Notes: Policy: Bringing the Hospital Home: Ethical and Social Implications of High-Tech Home Care

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson

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Reviews and Notes: Policy: Reproductive Health Care for Women and Babies: Policy and Ethics

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Reviews and Notes: Dermatology: Eye and Skin Disease

J. B. Ross

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Reviews and Notes: Hematology: Living with Haemophilia

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Reviews and Notes: Tropical Medicine: Color Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

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Reviews and Notes: Hepatology: Atlas of Clinical Hepatology

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Reviews and Notes: Informatics: Principles of Surgical Research

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Reviews and Notes: Informatics: Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How To Read the Health Science Literature

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There but fortune

Karen E. Victor

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