Annals of Internal Medicine

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1 April 1998, Vol. 128. No. 7

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Articles

Effect of Intensive Therapy on Residual β-Cell Function in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

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Topics: diabetes mellitus, type 1, diabetes mellitus, type 2, hemoglobin a, c-peptide, insulin ...

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):517-523. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00001

Metabolic Risk Factors Worsen Continuously across the Spectrum of Nondiabetic Glucose Tolerance: The Framingham Offspring Study

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James B. Meigs, MD, MPH; David M. Nathan, MD; Peter W.F. Wilson, MD; L. Adrienne Cupples, PhD; and Daniel E. Singer, MD

Topics: obesity, diabetes mellitus, glucose, glucose intolerance, fasting blood glucose measurement, metabolic risk ...

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):524-533. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00002

Beverage Use and Risk for Kidney Stones in Women

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Gary C. Curhan, MD, ScD; Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH; Frank E. Speizer, MD; and Meir J. Stampfer, MD, DrPH

Topics: diet, beverages, calculi, kidney calculi, women, nephrolithiasis

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):534-540. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00003

Brief Communications

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Associated with Ticlopidine: A Review of 60 Cases

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Charles L. Bennett, MD, PhD; Peter D. Weinberg, BS; Karine Rozenberg-Ben-Dror, PharmD; Paul R. Yarnold, PhD; Hau C. Kwaan, MD, PhD; and David Green, MD, PhD

Topics: ticlopidine, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):541-544. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00004

Updates

Update in Hematology

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Scott H. Goodnight, MD; and Donald I. Feinstein, MD

Topics: deep vein thrombosis, hyperhomocysteinemia, thromboembolism, thrombophilia, low-molecular-weight heparin, pernicious anemia, multiple myeloma, ...

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):545-551. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00005

Position Papers

Ethics Manual: Fourth Edition

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Topics: physician-patient relations, ethics, confidentiality, decision making, terminally ill

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):576-594. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00012

Ideas and Opinions

Voluntary Death: A Comparison of Terminal Dehydration and Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Franklin G. Miller, PhD; and Diane E. Meier, MD

Topics: dehydration, physician-assisted suicide

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):559-562. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00007

Remembering the Real Questions

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Jordan J. Cohen, MD

Topics: ethics, computers, delivery of health care, fear, health personnel, internal medicine, patient ...

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):563-566. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00008

Medicine and Public Policy

The Debate over Physician-Assisted Suicide: Empirical Data and Convergent Views

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Timothy E. Quill, MD; Diane E. Meier, MD; Susan D. Block, MD; and J. Andrew Billings, MD

Topics: terminally ill, palliative care, physician-assisted suicide

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):552-558. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00006

Editorials

Care of the Dying: Clinical and Financial Lessons from the Oregon Experience

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Susan W. Tolle, MD

Topics: terminal patient care, oregon

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):567-568. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00009

Doctors and Ethics, Morals and Manuals

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Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD; Arthur Caplan, PhD; and Susan Dorr Goold, MD

Topics: ethics, morals

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):569-571. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00010

Medicine and Commerce. 2: The Gift

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Frank Davidoff, MD, Editor

Topics: commerce

Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):572-575. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00011

On Being a Patient

The Genie in the Bottle

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Michael Bernstein, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1998;128(7):595-596. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-7-199804010-00013

Letters