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D Smith

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PubMed1979

Urinary hexosaminidase in patients with lung carcinoma.

The specific activity of urinary hexosaminidase was determined in 58 patients with various histological types of lung carcinoma. Compared to an apparently healthy control population, 32/35 patients with widely disseminated disease showed elevated values and 18/23 patients with disease confined to the chest had normal hexosaminidase values. Detailed studies of 18 patients indicated that declining hexosaminidase values were associated with effective therapy, rising values generally accompanied progressive disease.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1979

Evaluation of economic effects of drug product selection legislation.

Drug product selection legislation is intended to achieve savings in the cost of prescription drugs without adversely affecting the quality of care by allowing pharmacists the opportunity to dispense less costly generically equivalent drug products in place of the product which had been prescribed by the physician. Various conditions under which the pharmacists are authorized by state laws to exercise theoption to substitute are discussed. The study then identifies and examines the conditions under which savings may and do occur, using the legislation in Michigan as the model. Over 60,000 acutal prescriptions were examined for the three-year period, April 1, 1974 through March 31, 1977--which covers the period of the year immediately before the legislation became effective and the two subsequent years-to determine: 1) the extent to which substitution is possible; 2) potential savings from generic substitution; and 3) very substantial potential cost savings from drug product selection, the actual savings represent only an extremely small proportion of the potential. This principally is due to the fact of the low rate of substitution among eligible prescriptions. Thus, if the gap between actual and potential savings is to be reduced, more attention must be given to affecting the pattern of drug selection among pharmacists.

Costs and Cost Analysis↗
PubMed1979

Mortality from pig-bel (enteritis necroticans) in children in Tari 1971 to 1976.

Pig-Bel makes a major contribution to mortality in Tari despite the absence of cyclical pig feasts in this area and despite the fact that most of the population eat meat at least once per week. Over one half of the deaths due to Pig-Bel occur after hospital treatment. The condition is endemic. There is no indication that its incidence is decreasing with increasing sophistication and socio-economic development.

Animals↗
PubMed1979

Zinc mistake.

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Child↗
PubMed1979

Triple endoscopy: a neglected essential in head and neck cancer.

Surgeons are sometimes embarrassed to discover a second unanticipated cancer while focusing attention on an already evident cancer in the head and neck area, the bronchus, or the esophagus. we began in October, 1976, to do direct laryngoscopy, esophagoscopy, and bronchoscopy on each of the 134 cases admitted to our unit with suspected head and neck cancer. In 10 of the 134 patients in whom triple endoscopy was done, no malignancy was found. Of 24 of 124 (20%) patients with head and neck cancer, 16 patients (13%) had synchronous carcinoma and eight patients (7%) had metachronous carcinoma in this 2-year period. The incidence can be expected to rise steadily with time and mandates "triple endoscopy" on all patients with a suspected cancer in the head and neck area, the bronchus, or the esophagus, as these structures form a closely related unstable field. The discovery of several patients with dysplastic mucosal changes, carcinoma in situ, or very early invasive cancer, not only of the head and neck but also of the esophagus and bronchus, presents new problems of management.

Bronchial Neoplasms↗