In some US high schools, about a fourth of the seniors smoke marijuana every day. They could go to jail, but rarely do. Does daily use of marijuana carry other risks? Daily use by large groups is still fairly new in the United States. To study long-term effects, scienti...

More interest in early vaccination of infants has developed in recent years than ever before because of more concern for public health and preventive medicine, and the desirability of having as many as possible in the general population immune to the various preventable...

The great difficulty in tracing out the history of the medical education of Goldsmith, particularly that portion of it which he is said to have acquired at Leyden and Padua, is due to the fact that no biography of him was written by his contemporaries. It is a remarkabl...

PARALYSIS resulting from CNS injury has been recognized for more than 2,000 years. Although much has been learned about the pathophysiology of spinal cord injury, head injury, and stroke, therapeutic management of such patients, particularly with regard to pharmacologic...

ABSTRACT To the Editor.— In the study by a Veterans Administration Cooperative Study Group on the effects of treatment of hypertensives on morbidity (213:1143, 1970), complications associated with coronary artery diseases (CAD) were essentially the same in control and t...

That the basic aspects of medicine—its chemistry, immunology, and genetics—should be becoming ever more complex is not difficult to understand. But that even relatively simple clinical decisions should have become matters for controversy is at first blush surprising. Th...