THE Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that women constitute the fastestgrowing group of people with AIDS in the United States. Women now represent 13 percent of reported cases. Approximately 80,000 women of childbearing age are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and as many as 14,000 women will have been given a diagnosis of AIDS by the end of 1993. Ove...

We evaluated the effectiveness of high dose rate (HDR) endobronchial irradiation for palliation of malignant airway obstruction. Between May 1989 and February 1992, 39 patients were treated in our department. Thirty-two patients (82 percent) had primary lung neoplasms and 7 (18 percent) had metastatic disease. Thirty-three patients (85 percent) had prior external irradiation (either alone or in...

Women’s participation in the labor force has increased substantially over the past half century. In 1930, 10 million women were in the labor force. They represented 24 percent of all working age women and 22 percent of the total work force. By 1955 the number of women workers had doubled, and their labor-force paticipation rate had risen to 36 percent. By 1979 the number had more than quadruple...

Verrucous carcinoma is a form of squamous cell carcinoma which was first described as a distinct clinical and pathological entz'ty by Ackerman iri 1948. This study is the [irst report of 44 cases in Malaysians. Verrucous Carcinoma (VC) formed 1.8 percent of all oral squamous cell carcinoma cases. There was a predominance ofmales (M:F = 1.4:1). The peak age incidence was between 51 70 years (66 ...