My student elective: surgery in Jersey City.

Disproportionate Availability Between Emergency and Elective Hand Coverage: A National Trend?

BACKGROUND Traumatic hand injuries represent approximately 20% of emergency department visits; yet, access to emergency care remains inadequate. Recent surveys from several states report a wider availability of hand specialists providing elective care than emergency care. The authors aim to examine this phenomenon in the state of New Jersey and whether there is a national trend toward dispropor...

My student elective. Problems in Peru.

My first aim on this elective was to obtain experience of medicine and society in a country greatly different from Britain. My second aim was to collect specimens of soil and blood and compare the prevalence of toxocariasis in the local population with the reservoir of infection in the soil. I will not describe the results of my study in detail, but I can say, although the detailed results are ...

My student elective. Babies and bananas: on foot in Rwanda.

The Society of Surgical Oncology at a crossroads: thoughts for the future. Presidential address.

I am deeply honored by being elected president of theSociety of Surgical Oncology. In my most extravagant dreams as a college and medical student or surgical resident, I never envisioned being so honored or rewarded. I fully recognize, as in somany careers, that I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Having taken 5 years to get through high school, I was lucky enough to ...

Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Interleukin 1b Up-Regulate Gastric Mucosal Fas Antigen Expression in Helicobacter pylori Infection

JEANMARIE HOUGHTON,* LISA S. MACERA-BLOCH, LAWRENCE HARRISON, KYUNG H. KIM, AND REJU M. KORAH Division of Gastroenterology and Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, and Division of Gastroenterology, Department of...