| Cedric F. Garland, DrPH, Frank C. Garland, PhD, Edward D. Gorham, PhD, MPH, Martin Lipkin, MD, Harold Newmark, ScD, Sharif B. Mohr, MPH, and Michael F. Holick, MD, PhD Vitamin D status differs by latitude and race, with residents of the northeastern United States and individuals with more skin pigmentation being at increased risk of deficiency. A PubMed database search yielded 63 observationa...

Accurate assessment of the lymphatic system has been limited due to the lack of optimal diagnostic methods. Recently, we adopted noncontrast magnetic resonance (MR) lymphangiography to evaluate the central lymphatic channel. We aimed to investigate the feasibility and the clinical usefulness of noninvasive MR lymphangiography for determining lymphatic disease.Ten patients (age range 42-72 years...

B SIMoN PROPP, M.D., L. WHITTINGTON GORHAM, M.D., AND SAMUEL KANTOR, M.D. M ULTIPLE MYELOMA is commonly known as a malignant disease characterized by bone pain, deformity and abnormal fragility of the osseous system, cacheXia, and Bence-Jones proteinuria. The tumors tend to be multiple. They are found most frequently in the spine, ribs, skull, bones of the shoulder girdle, pelvis, sternum and u...

Here, based on phylogenetic analyses of 18 taxa and 57 morphological characters, we propose a new firefly genus, Costalampys gen. nov. , to accommodate eleven species. Five species are herein described: C. bella sp. capixaba C delicata (designated as type species), joanae minima In addition, six redescribed transferred from other genera: bisbinotata (Pic) comb. Platylampis Motschulsky; decorata...

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IVH) is a condition or heterogeneous group of vessels characterized by an increase in pressure (ICP) without signs mass formation, hydrocephalus, infection, venous thrombosis, and hypertensive encephalopathy. The term "pseudotumoral cerebral hypertension" used to describe the secondary origin ICP due various causes diagnosis exclusion. One risk factors for ...

Two new species of the genus Tillicera Spinola, 1841 from China are described and illustrated: Tillicera sensibilissp. n. from Yunnan (also from Myanmar, Thailand and Laos) and Tillicera weniisp. n. from Taiwan. Tillicera bibalteata Gorham, 1892, Tillicera hirsuta (Pic, 1926) and Tillicera michaeli Gerstmeier & Bernhard, 2010 are newly recorded from China. Tillicera auratofasciata (Pic, 1927) i...