The UVM Larner College of Medicine receives $90 - 100 million annually in research funding. Researchers in laboratory, clinical, and community settings work toward a greater understanding of disease ...

This paper will present the background for the development of this new science, a classification ... From the Department of Medicine, University of Alabama College of Medicine, University of ...

ACUTE rheumatic fever, in the absence of intercurrent streptococcal respiratory infections and rheumatic recrudescences, is generally a self-limited disease that subsides within twelve weeks.

ANEURYSMS of the thoracic aorta may be of diverse etiology. Atherosclerosis, syphilis, medial degeneration, trauma and occasionally sepsis have been implicated. 1–4 The present case represents a ...

THE characteristic bloody discharge that follows childbirth has always been considered such a fundamental phenomenon of parturition that it is designated by the word "lochia," derived from a Greek ...

Multiple diseases in children have been linked to manufactured synthetic chemicals, which are subject to few legal or policy constraints. A revamping of law and restructuring of the chemical ...

The continuous emergence and reemergence of tickborne diseases have presented an increasing threat to human health. 1,2 We conducted an active surveillance of febrile patients with recent tick ...

A forty-year-old executive was referred to the hospital because a mediastinal mass had been discovered on a survey chest photofluorogram two weeks previously. Thirteen years before admission the ...

THE following quotation is taken from the outline of "Principles of Treatment of Severe Facial Injuries" 1 prepared for the American College of Surgeons: In few injuries is the final outcome so ...

Associate in preventive medicine, Harvard Medical School; assistant in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; fellow, Medical Foundation (Boston); faculty fellow, Milbank Memorial Fund.

THE subjects of this review are the plasma lipoproteins, their structure and functions and the ways in which they are disordered in certain diseases. The intent is not to discuss lipoproteins for ...

A letter sent to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine signed by Canadian health officials says the British Columbia teenager who tested positive for avian flu has been taken off ...