Chart showing weight and intake curves of two rats. R 2: both vitamins administered
throughout. R 1: both vitamins administered at first. At A both vitamins were removed; at B a …

IN angina of effort, first-line therapy is still sublingual nitroglycerin. Where this proves
ineffective, the conventional strategy has been to add long-acting nitrates or beta-blockers …

Experience with 28 cases of aorto-iliac reconstruction for claudication is described. This has
been found to be the procedure of choice in the presence of superficial femoral artery block …

A Boy, aged six and a half years, was brought to consult me on Sept. 8th, 1902, for
headache and vomiting, and he had a discharge from both ears. These symptoms had …

After general practitioners (GPs) were publicly blamed by the UK health secretary for a crisis
in acute services, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) tells The Lancet that it …

OBJECTIVE: To review current literature relating to the adverse effects of the angiotensin-
converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. DATA SOURCES: Online drug information sources …

Sir—Tadashi Arai and colleagues (D ec 12, p 1937) 1 report that the rate of pneumonia was
significantly lower in elderly hypertensive patients given ACE inhibitors than in those treated …

In August, 2000, a previously fit 62-year-old man walked into the vascular clinic with a large
tender abdominal aortic aneurysm. An immediate CT scan confirmed the presence of a 9 cm …

The proportion of all deaths, over the age of 50, from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is
about 1 in 250. At least half of these can survive if operated upon, but none if not so treated …

Background Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture has a high mortality. Four
randomised controlled trials indicate significant mortality benefit from population screening …