Trench coats, Cushing, and Gillies

Gillies and Dodds Bacteriology Illustrated

Apparently without benefit of a predecessory symposium, the editor of this collection of monographs has selected several topics as representative of areas from which many of the future advances in the treatment of neoplastic disease will come forth. His choices are uniformly praiseworthy and meritorious. In each of the chapters, which cover such diversified approaches as interferons, monoclonal...

Harvey Cushing

Preventing Cushing: Iatrogenic Cushing Syndrome due to Ritonavir-Fluticasone Interaction

Ritonavir is commonly used in low doses to boost plasma levels of protease inhibitors in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. It is also a potent inhibitor of cytochrome P450. We present a 50-year-old African American male with past medical history of HIV on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which also included ritonavir and long standing asthma that has been...

Cushing, cortisol, and cardiovascular disease.

Cushing's syndrome of glucocorticoid excess is named after the eminent Boston neurosurgeon Harvey W. Cushing (1869-1939). The recognition that glucocorticoid excess produces hypertension led to examination of the role of cortisol in essential hypertension, but it is only over the last decade that evidence has emerged to support the concept. Despite the widespread assumption that cortisol raises...

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