Librarians who Request for Reprints Including those in Oncology

Request for Reprints concerning Stress and the Adaptive Hormones.

5. The patient may be killed by an excess of salt, fluid or DCA; the venous pressure does not give warning of this. Autopsy may reveal pleural and pericardial effusions when there was no rise of venous pressure in life. Chronic adrenal insufficiency is usually due to destruction or atrophy of the adrenal glands but it may complicate hypopituitarism and it may accompany adreno-genital virilism. ...

Request for Reprints of Articles on Stress and the Adaptive Hormones.

DEAR SIRS-In perusing the current literature with which your Journal is concerned, we note that an ever-increasing number of articles deal with problems pertaining to research on " stress" and the so-called "adaptive hormones" (ACTH, STH, corticoids, adrenergic substances, etc.). We are writing you because, in our opinion, the success of research in this complex and rapidly developing field lar...

Those Who Discourage Crime

Even by their simple presence, people can discourage crime from happening at specijic times and places. Such direct-contact discouragement can occur when "guardians" keep an eye on potential crime targets (Cohen and Felson, 1979), or when "handlers" do the same for potential offenders (Felson, 1986). Eck (1994) adds a third type of discouragement role: "managers" who monitor places. Eck present...

Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them

Those Who Pay Have a Say: A View on Oncology Drug Pricing and Reimbursement

Scores of articles have been published stating that cancer therapy costs are unsustainable and unjustified, and the effect of all of thosepapers has beennothing but a continued escalation in the price of cancer therapies. It is time to take action rather than to simply lament the present. This article assumes that costs are too high, and it suggests four specific strategies to help lower those ...