Too many deaths are being attributed to heart attacks on insufficient evidence, said the New England Journal of Medicine, because doctors find it convenient to enter coronary disease on death certificates. When 911 such certificates in Pennsylvania were checked, probable errors were found in at least 27% and perhaps as many as 63% of them.
¶ In contrast with most specialists in disorders of the digestive tract, who prefer to hide behind polysyllables in writing of their work (e.g., the American Journal of Gastroenterology), the British Medical Association announced that it will soon publish a learned specialty journal entitled simply Gut.
¶ Smallpox...
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