1Department of Endocrinology, University College Hospital, London, UK 2National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK 3Physicians’ Clinic, London, UK 4Department of Endocrinology, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK 5Endocrinology/General Medicine, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 6The Lister Hospital, London, UK 7Roya...

Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 2 MD, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and History of Medi...

The prevention and clinical management of RDS are discussed in detail, of particular interest being the details of the use of Swan-Ganz catheters, anticoagulants in the management of intravascular coagulation, post end-expiratory pressure and intravenous nutrition. Not everyone will agree with the opinions expressed but their rational presentation supported by an excellent bibliography are cert...

Growth Hormone usually decreases following an elevation in blood glucose after a meal. It is usually increased during sleep or during starvation. It causes both retention of sodium and potassium which are required for growth metabolism. Elevated GH levels increase IGF-1 blood levels. Because IGF-1 levels are much more stable over the course of the day, they are often a more practical and reliab...

Henrik Toft Sørensen1 Søren Friborg2 Jørgen Rungby3 Jens Sandahl Christensen4 Allan Vaag5 Henning Beck-Nielsen6 1Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, 2Department of Endocrinology M, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, 3Department of Pharmacology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, 4Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Aarhus University Hospi...

GENERAL ENDOCRINOLOGY. By C. Donnell Turner. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1948. xii + 604 pp. $6.75. This book is the first edition of a text-book on general endocrinology and is aimed to meet the needs of the beginning student in experimental endocrinology. Clearly, the book accomplishes this rather modest aim and more. It is not intended to be a completely adequate handbook for the advan...

Pages 179 i have carried this useful book in my pocket and used it with benefit in clinical meetings. It is intended for hospital doctors as a guide to practical management of people with diabetes and endocrine disorders. It describes each gland, the normal function and its variants, the symptoms and signs, the tests which might be used to establish the diagnosis and treatment. There is a sensi...