Thymectomy was performed on 249 patients with myasthenia gravis between 1957 and 1981. During a follow-up period that ranged from 2 months to 24 years (mean 7.5 years), the remission rate for the entire group was 51 percent, and an additional 36 percent had improvement (87 percent benefited). In those 51 patients with thymoma, the remission rate was 37 percent, with 68 percent of the patients b...

the New York–New Jersey region plunged 51 percent— a drop that far exceeded the 8.4 percent decline in manufacturing jobs nationwide. Some areas within the region were especially hard hit by the employment losses: New York City shed more than two-thirds of its manufacturing jobs, while neighboring northern New Jersey lost 55 percent. Inflation-adjusted, or real, income from manufacturing also f...

BACKGROUND Adverse events related to drugs occur frequently among inpatients, and many of these events are preventable. However, few data are available on adverse drug events among outpatients. We conducted a study to determine the rates, types, severity, and preventability of such events among outpatients and to identify preventive strategies. METHODS We performed a prospective cohort study,...

Data on 10 patients with angina pectoris and fatal cardiac arrest during cardiac catheterization were analyzed to determine the circumstances of death and the severity and distribution of the coronary arterial narrowing. Nine patients died during attempted coronary angiography, and the remaining patient during right-sided cardiac catheterization. At least three of four major epicardial coronary...