Medicine
Subtitle: the best medical articles from the pages of Scientific American magazine -- with updates from the original authors
Contributors: Scientific American, inc
Series: Scientific American -- vol. 4, no. 1
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Diseases; Medicine; Therapeutics
Other titles: Scientific American
Notes: Cover title

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: value: Introduction to medicine in the 20th century; value: Lipoprotein(a) in heart disease / Richard M. Lawn; value: Biological roles of nitric oxide / Solomon H. Snyder and David S. Bredt; value: Opium, cocaine and marijuana in American history / David F. Musto; value: RU 486 / André Ulmann, Georges Teutsch and Daniel Philibert; value: Tragedy of needless pain / Ronald Melzack; value: Amyloid protein and Alzheimer's disease / Dennis J. Selkoe; value: Stem cell / David W. Golde; value: G proteins / Maurine E. Linder and Alfred G. Gilman; value: Gene therapy / Inder M. Verma; value: Understanding the AIDS pandemic / Roy M. Anderson and Robert M. May; value: Adoptive immunotherapy for cancer / Steven A. Rosenberg; value: How the immune system learns about self / Harald von Boehmer and Pawel Kisielow; value: Multidrug resistance in cancer / Norbert Kartner and Victor Ling; value: Sexually transmitted diseases in the AIDS era / Sevgi O. Aral and King K. Holmes; value: Progress in oral rehydration therapy / Norbert Hirschhorn and William B. Greenough III; value: Streptococcal M protein / Vincent A. Fischetti; value: Cancer cell invasion and metastasis / Lance A. Liotta; value: Mountain sickness / Charles S. Houston; value: Bacterial endotoxins / Ernst Theodor Rietschel and Helmut Brade