A case-control study was conducted to investigate the etiology of hairy cell leukemia. Forty-five individuals with histologically confirmed hairy cell leukemia comprised the cases. Three neighborhood controls were selected on the basis of age (+/- 5 years), race, sex, and residence at the time of the interview for each case. There was no association found for cigarette smoking, alcohol or coffe...

Crime is defined by society, or by representatives of our society, the lawyers, who legally define it. I suppose if we had no lawyers we would have no crime at least we would have no legal definitions, but criminal behavior would still be a major burden. A useful definition of crime is any behavior which is harmful or potentially harmful to other people. It may be divided into at least three ma...

T HE CONCEPT of tranquilizing drugs in medicine is a new one, going back little more than 5 years. The term itself is essentially a popular one and defies precise definition. In general, however, substances which are included tinder the general heading of tranquilizers are those which exert a favorable effect Ofl disturbed emotions of human beings, particularly in terms of relieving tension and...

We present evidence that large-scale spatial coherence of 40Hz oscillations can emerge dynamically in a cortical mean field theory. The simulated synchronization time scale is about 150ms, which compares well with experimental data on large-scale integration during cognitive tasks. The same model has previously provided consistent descriptions of the human EEG at rest, with tranquilizers, under...

ate-carbonic acid method and from the creatine phosphocreatine equilibrium. J Neurochem 19: 2483-2495, 1972 10. Snedecor GW, Cochran WG: Statistical Methods. Iowa State University Press, Ames IA 1967 11. Guth PS, Spirtes MA: The phenothiazine tranquilizers: Biochemical and biophysical actions. Int Rev Neurobiol 7: 231-278, 1964 12. Baldessarini RJ: Drugs and the treatment of psychiatric disorde...

Aspirin has been observed to block or attenuate the flush reaction caused by niacin in 90 percent of a group of schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic outpatients. The patients were not treated with tranquilizers or antiinflammatory agents concurrently. The basis for this phenomenon, the blocking of the niacin flush by aspirin, is probably due to inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis by aspirin. In...

OBJECTIVE Very little is known about car driving in palliative patients. We have asked patients in at home palliative care environments about their driving habits during palliative care. METHODS At admittance to the palliative care program and at regular visits the patients were asked a few questions about age, diagnosis, sex, driving license, driving, medication and functional status. RESU...

July, 1974 377 TERIAL blood gases and p11 may reflect the respiratory depression produced by tranquilizing and narcoticanalgesic agents used in premedication before surgical anesthesia. The absence of respiratory depression is one of the desirable qualities of an ideal premedicant or sedative drug. Therefore, it is essential to know if, and to what extent, a particular drug depresses respiratio...

Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome is characterized by bladder pain associated with urgency, frequency, nocturia, dysuria and sterile urine. Recent studies revealed that these bladder dysfunctions could originate from chronic inflammation or urothelial insult and proceed to a cascade of tissue reactions, which finally ascends to the CNS. The principles for treatment of interstitial cys...

Diclofenac sodium is a very common drug used in medical practice for analgesia and is freely available over the counter without any medical prescription. The drug is also the most commonly used or misused by quacks working all over India. Many case reports have been published on upper limb catastrophe of unintentional intra-arterial injection of barbiturates, thiopental sodium, narcotics, and t...