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This Week in the Journal
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Original Articles
One-Time Screening for Colorectal Cancer with Combined Fecal Occult-Blood Testing and Examination of the Distal Colon
D. A. Lieberman and Others
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Use of Copper Intrauterine Devices and the Risk of Tubal Infertility among Nulligravid Women
D. Hubacher and Others
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Effect of Prone Positioning on the Survival of Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure
L. Gattinoni and Others
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Prognostic Importance of Elevated Jugular Venous Pressure and a Third Heart Sound in Patients with Heart Failure
M. H. Drazner, J. E. Rame, L. W. Stevenson, and D. L. Dries
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Brief Report: Human Infection Due to Recombinant Vaccinia–Rabies Glycoprotein Virus
C. E. Rupprecht and Others
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Images in Clinical Medicine
Carotid-Body Tumor
V. Velebit and P.-A. Schneider
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Review Articles
Mechanisms of Disease: The Pathogenesis of Vasodilatory Shock
D. W. Landry and J. A. Oliver
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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Case 26-2001— Hypertensive Encephalopathy with Impaired Renal Function in a 67-Year-Old Woman with Polymyositis
J. H. Korn and S. Mauiyyedi
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  Editorial
Screening for Colon Cancer — Can We Afford Colonoscopy?
A. S. Detsky
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Time to Pardon the IUD?
P. D. Darney
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The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Mechanical Ventilation, and the Prone Position
A. S. Slutsky
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The Jugular Venous Pulse and Third Heart Sound in Patients with Heart Failure
J. K. Perloff
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Correspondence
The Diagnosis of Brain Death
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Cutaneous Reactions to STI571
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Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
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Atrial Fibrillation
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Treatment of Brain Metastases of Malignant Melanoma with Temozolomide
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Acquired Type I von Willebrand's Disease Associated with Highly Substituted Hydroxyethyl Starch
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Book Reviews
Pulmonary Immunotoxicology
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Primary Pediatric Pulmonology
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Clinical Management of Infections in Immunocompromised Infants and Children
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Corrections
Gene-Expression Profiles in Hereditary Breast Cancer
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