Book Review: L-Forms, Episomes and Auto-Immune Disease

Auto-Immune Addison\'s Disease Associated with Hyperprolactinemia

SUMMARY Three cases ofauto-immune addison's disease are reported in association with hyperprolactilinemia. All of them had galactorrhea. In three cases complete resolution of hyperprolactitinemia occurred with corticosteroid replacement. We suggest that hyperprolactinemia was due to cortisol deficiency operating directly or indirectly at the level of the pituitary.  

Book review: L ATEX and Friends

It is difficult to write a new and original introductory book about LTEX today. The author must compete with a number of great books, including freely available ones like [1]. Some these books were written by the authors or primary developers of the language [2–5]. Still, people have been writing mathematics textbooks for several thousand years, and nevertheless new ones continue to be written....

Dupuytren's contracture: an auto-immune disease?

Auto-immune Addison's disease in identical twins.

Identical male twins are described, one of whom presented with clinical symptoms of Addison's disease whereas the other was shown to have a deficient adrenal cortical response to stimulation tests. Both had positive adrenal cortex antibodies.

Book Review: Infectious Disease Epidemiology

This handbook is divided into two sections. Section 1 is composed of seventeen chapters which summarize the basic methods and principles used for the study of infectious disease epidemiology. On the other hand, Section 2 discusses the most important infectious diseases worldwide, grouped in ten separate chapters according to their way of transmission, with an emphasis on their ability to cause ...