FRED C. TENOVER,* ROBERT D. ARBEIT, RICHARD V. GOERING, PATRICIA A. MICKELSEN, BARBARA E. MURRAY, DAVID H. PERSING, AND BALA SWAMINATHAN National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02130; Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178; Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford...

a considerable need for charitable medical benevolence. In 1986 two charitable medical organisations in the United Kingdom celebrate anniversaries that remind us of the importance of this need. The Royal Medical Benevolent Fund has planned several events to mark the 150th anniversary of its foundation in 1836 as the Benevolent Society of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, which in...

*Gene Expression Laboratory, ¶Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037; ‡Department of Medicine, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093; §Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center, La Jolla, CA 92093; The Whittier Diabetes Institute, La Jolla, CA 92093; **Department of Medicine and Canc...

Alan L. Bisno, Michael A. Gerber, Jack M. Gwaltney, Jr., Edward L. Kaplan, and Richard H. Schwartz Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, Florida; 2 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Ohio; University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Inova Fairfax Hospi...

Nigel S. Bamford,1,2,5 Siobhan Robinson,3 Richard D. Palmiter,3,4 John A. Joyce,1 Cynthia Moore,6 and Charles K. Meshul6 1Department of Neurology, 2Center on Human Development and Disability, 3Neurobiology and Behavior Program, and 4Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, and 5Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98195...

From the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; the Department of Medicine, Methodist Hospital; and the Renal Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center — all in Houston (H.J.A.); and the Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the Division of Nephrology, Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center — both in Boston (N.E.M.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Madias ...

1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland; 2Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Ospedale Gaslini, Genoa, Italy; Departments of 3Molecular and Medical Genetics and 4Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland; 5NW Veterans Affairs (VA) Cancer Research Center, Portland VA Medical Center, OR; 6Department of Physiology and Ph...

Sebastian Grundmann,* Imo Hoefer,* Susann Ulusans, Niels van Royen, Stephan H. Schirmer, C. Keith Ozaki, Christoph Bode, Jan J. Piek, and Ivo Buschmann Department for Internal Medicine III (Cardiology and Angiology), University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Department of Experimental Cardiology, Unive...

XUE-QIAN ZHANG,1 JIANLIANG SONG,1 LAWRENCE I. ROTHBLUM,1 MINGYUE LUN,1 XUJUN WANG,1 FAN DING,1 JEREMY DUNN,2 JONATHAN LYTTON,2 PAUL J. MCDERMOTT,3 AND JOSEPH Y. CHEUNG1 1Weis Center for Research, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania 17822; 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary Health Sciences Center, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1; and 3Departmen...

David L. Mayhew, Jeong-su Kim, James M. Cross, Arny A. Ferrando, and Marcas M. Bamman Medical Scientist Training Program and Departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham; and Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama; and Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity...