1. UK COLLABORATIVE STUDY: Maternal serumaipha-fetoprotein measurement in
antenatal screening for anencephaly and spina bifida in early pregnancy. Lancet 1: 1323 …

An article in the November, 1943, numberof The Reader's Digest, by Paul de Kruif, entitled"
Hope for the Victims of Arthritis", even if over-enthusiastic therapeutically, has stimulated a …

Juvenile chronic arthritis UCA) is the term coined in 1977 by members of the European
League Against Rheumatism to describe a clinically heterogeneous group of idiopathic …

Chronic arthritis in children is uncommon. Careful clinical and laboratory studies over many
years have defined subgroups of disease that have their characteristic pattern of joint …

Although the earliest recognition of chronic arthritis in childhood may possibly be attributable
to the artist's canvas (Alarcon-Segovia et al., 1983; De-quecker, 1984), itwas George …

In memory of Professor Alessandro Robecchi, President of the International League against
Rheumatism, rheumatologists from all over the world participated in the birth of the …

Sir: Spector and Silman suggest that spon-taneous abortion may have a protective effect on
the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).'This seems at odds with a previous study from …

THHRE is no class of affeclions for which relief is more commonly and, I may add, more
justly sought at mineral waters and baths than painful enlargements of the joints, particularly …

Juvenile Arthritis Page 1 Juvenile Arthritis John Baum, MD Thefollowing is the first contribution
in what will be a series of pediatric staff conferences to be published at intervals in the Journal …

N THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS we have come a long way in the epidem-I iology of
rheumatoid arthritis. Needs for adequate field survey techniques have been recognized and …