A 55-year-old Caucasian man with a history of thyrotoxicosis treated with carbimazole was admitted to hospital in January 1976 with epigastric pain and weight loss. Laparotomy disclosed an antral carcinoma of the stomach with extensive lymph node disease, and local resection was carried out. Histological examination confirmed a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma with mestastases in lymph nodes....

Cimetidine, an H2 receptor antagonist, is widely used in the treatment of duodenal ulcer, ZollingerEllison Syndrome (Binder et al., 1978; Winship, 1978; Ippoliti et al., 1978; Gray et al., 1978; Lc Canthy, 1978) benign gastric ulcer, gastric erosions and oesophagitis (Freston, 1979; Frost et al., 1977; Englert et al., 1978). In human beings it has a circulating half life of disappearance of 123...

with Hb AIc. Patients with very high Hb Alc values possibly represent a subgroup of the diabetic population, outside the normal criterion oflong-term control, during a phase ofmetabolic decompensation; and they may show features more typical of the lipid disturbances of ketosis than of long-term diabetic control. Thus our main finding is related not to diabetic control but to the type of diabet...

An increase in the pace of technological change can have two profound side effects in the labor market. It can increase the rate and the average duration of unemployment. Because firms may not consider it cost-effective to retrain some types of workers to keep up with change, notably the less-educated and older employees, these workers may be jobless for long periods of time, with some of them ...

In the quest to give a formal compositional semantics to natural languages, semanticists have started turning their attention to phenomena that have been also considered as parts of pragmatics (e.g., discourse anaphora and presupposition projection). To account for these phenomena, the very kinds of meanings assigned to words and phrases are often revisited. To be more specific, in the prevalen...

other epidemiological characteristics and both lived in an area where hepatitis A is highly endemic. The low prevalence of anti-HAV in patients with thalassaemia is unlikely to be due to a resistance to the infection endowed by the disease, since an increased prevalence of anti-HBs as well as of antibodies to cytomegalovirus and other viruses has been found in such children." Thus regular blood...

abstract background: combination therapy with interferon and ribavirin is the most effective treatment for chronic hepatitis c today. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of thrice-weekly heberon (interferon alfa-2b) in combination with ribavirin as first -line treatment of chronic hepatitis c. methods: a total of97 treatment-naive patients received heberon three millio...