Cross-cultural communication between China and the West, instigated in 1979 by the establishment of an open-door policy in China, has led to the merging of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with the medical practices of the West. The result of these medical exchanges is a blending of medical practices that proves to be more effective in the…

Report on a study of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center's Associate Program to determine what changes might be needed to continue attracting excellent young medical scientists. (Editor/PG)

A 15-year-old male suffering from a heart defect, intestinal problems, and generalized fatigue was shown to have the immunologic deficiency characteristic of intestinal lymphangiectasia. (DB)

Summaries are presented of over 150 articles in the recent medical and psychiatric literature. Topics covered are: effects of drugs, tobacco, alcohol, drugs used in medicine, vapor sniffing, marijuana, barbiturates, tranquilizers, amphetamines, methamphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, other hallucinogens, heroin and the opiates, psychiatric…

Seven aspects of neuropsychology are discussed including modern trends in neuropsychology by Klaus Poeck, the behavioral effect s of commissural section by George Ettlinger and Colin B. Blakemore, neuropsychological studies of phantom limbs by Sidney Weinstein, and problems in the anatomical understanding of aphasias by Norman Geschwind. Also…

This study was conducted to determine to what degree medical literature is accessible and available to physicians in Essex County (Ontario). There are no medical schools in Essex County and the biomedical collections maintained by the six hospitals in the County and the Essex County Medical Association represent the only access in the County to…

For a 120 day search period 209 titles representing the acquisitions of a medical school library and 55 selected from this total suitable for a hospital library were studied in relation to the availability of bibliographic information from the two major sources, National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Library of Congress (LC). Data were compared…

An attempt is made to determine whether a behaviorally-oriented conditioning approach, "covert sensitization," is more effective in the treatment of alcoholism than the commonly used problem-solving approach, and whether female counselors employing covert sensitization were more successful than males. Thirty-two subjects selected on…

Reviews the history of drug research and the chemical aspects of medical research. (MLH)

The original theory in the 1920s on the mode of action of Laetrile is described along with the research that followed in light of this theory. Legal and socioeconomic implications are examined, and the role of health education in combating this problem is explored. (Author/DS)