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• • ·General internal medicine as a 21st century specialty: Perspectives of community-based chairs of medicine

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    Charles S. Bryan

    
• • ·Bloodstream invasion in early Lyme disease: Results from a prospective, controlled, blinded study using the polymerase chain reaction

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    Jesse L. Goodman, John F. Bradley, Allan E. Ross, Paul Goellner, Arnie Lagus, Blaise Vitale, Bernard W. Berger, Steven Luger, Russell C. Johnson

    
• • ·Coronary angiography in octogenarians: Problems and possibilities

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    Gottlieb O. Friesinger

    
• • ·Coronary angiography in octogenarians: Results and implications for revascularization

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    François J. Ricou, Caroline Suilen, Claudia Rothmeier, Anders Gisselbaek, Philip Urban

    
• • ·Impact of endocrine and diabetes team consultation on hospital length of stay for patients with diabetes

    Page :22-28

    Claresa S. Levetan, Jacqueline R. Salas, Ilene F. Wilets, Barnett Zumoff

    
• • ·Effects of continuous combined hormone-replacement therapy on lipid levels in hypercholesterolemic postmenopausal women

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    Margo A. Denke

    
• • ·Combined therapy with estrogen and etidronate has an additive effect on bone mineral density in the hip and vertebrae: Four-year randomized study

    Page :36-42

    Sunil J. Wimalawansa

    
• • ·Utility of leg ultrasonography in suspected symptomatic isolated calf deep venous thrombosis

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    Grant R. Simons, Lorraine K. Skibo, Joseph F. Polak, Mark A. Creager, Josephine M. Klapec-Fay, Samuel Z. Goldhaber

    
• • ·Neuroleptic drug exposure and treatment of parkinsonism in the elderly: A case-control study

    Page :48-54

    Jerry Avorn, Rhonda L. Bohn, Helen Mogun, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Mark Monane, Daniel Everitt, Alexander Walker

    
• • ·Syphilis and neurosyphilis in a human immunodeficiency virus type-1 seropositive population: Evidence for frequent serologic relapse after therapy

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    Joseph L. Malone, Mark R. Wallace, Byron B. Hendrick, Anthony LaRocco, Elizabeth Tonon, Stephanie K. Brodine, William A. Bowler, Bruce S. Lavin, Richard E. Hawkins, Edward C. Oldfield

    
• • ·AIDS-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy revealed by new-onset seizures

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    Antoine Moulignier, Jacqueline Mikol, Gilles Pialoux, Gilles Fénelon, Françoise Gray, Jean Baptiste Thiebaut

    
• • ·Deployment of academic subspecialists in the emerging era of primary care

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    Andrew I. Schafer

    Résumé Résumé
• • ·Subspecialization in Internal Medicine: A historical review, an analysis, and proposals for change

    Page :74-81

    Ronald J. Anderson

    Résumé Résumé
• • ·Biological therapies: A novel approach to the treatment of autoimmune disease

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    David A. Fox

    Résumé Résumé
• • ·Dark urine, flank pain, and hematologic abnormalities in a 16-year-old boy

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• • ·The new academic year

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    Richard S. Panush

    
• • ·Natural killer cell lymphoproliferative disease associated with neuropathy

    Page :99-101

    David Leitenberg, Richard N. Eisen, Jonathan M. Goldstein, Lambert Busque, Henry M. Rinder, Peter Stys, Martin E. Katz, D.Gary Gilliland, Brian R. Smith

    
• • ·Asymptomatic neurocysticercosis in a patient with AIDS and cryptococcal meningitis

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    A.Clinton White, Habib Dakik, Pedro Diaz

    
• • ·Milk-alkali syndrome with metastatic calcification

    Page :102-103

    James S. Duthie, Haresh P. Solanki, Muniramian Krishnamurthy, Bruce S. Chertow

    
• • ·Rapid infusion of amphotericin B: Is it safe, effective, and wise?

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    U. Schuler, G. Ehninger

    
• • ·The reply

    Page :104-105

    D.J. Drutz

    
• • ·Clinical medicine: Perspectives for the future

    Page :105-106

    Kimberly A. Shriner

    
• • ·Coma due to ciguatera poisoning in Rhode Island

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    Andrew B. Swift

    
• • ·The reply

    Page :106-107

    Dianne J. DeFusco, Brian R. Ott, Phillip O'Dowd, Yoshitsugi Hokama

    
• • ·Human ehrlichiosis with features of toxic shock syndrome

    Page :107

    Philippe Brouqui, Didier Raoult

    
• • ·The reply

    Page :107

    Carl J. Fichtenbaum, Gary J. Weil

    
• • ·Noninvasive testing in the diagnosis of osteomalacia

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    Malachi J. McKenna, Rosemarie Freaney

    
• • ·The reply

    Page :108

    Charles T. Bingham, Lorraine A. Fitzpatrick

    
• • ·Lovastatin-associated sleep and mood disturbances

    Page :108-109

    Jonathan A. Tobert

    
• • ·Teaching cardiovascular examination skills

    Page :109

    Ajit N. Babu, James Stahl

    
• • ·The reply

    Page :109-110

    Eugene Oddone

    
• • ·An ethic of care

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    Del J. DeHart

    
• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Number 59

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