Self-esteem and death anxiety instruments were administered to a total of 383 undergraduates; black and white, males and females were included in the sample. Consistent with previous data, higher scores on death anxiety were shown by female subjects. Black males displayed significantly higher self-esteem scores. An analysis of subgroups low and high in self-esteem produced support for a negative relationship between level of self-esteem and death anxiety.

Observations for accuracy in carrying out prescribed medication regimens were made at home on two groups of diabetic patients. The first group included sixty patients (all taking insulin and cared for in two university clinics), and the second 102 patients (fifty-five taking insulin and fortyseven taking oral hypoglycemic agents) cared for in two university clinics, a voluntary hospital clinic, and twentytwo different private practices.Fifty-eight per cent of 115 patients taking insulin made dosage errors. "Potentially serious" errors, i.e., those in which the measured dose differed from the prescribed dosage by 15 per cent or more, occurred in 35 per cent. In the first group, seven of thirty-four patients (21 per cent) using the U40-U80 "convertible" syringe measured either half or twice the prescribed dose through use of the wrong scale. Rates of error were similar in clinic and in private patients. The frequency of insulin errors increased with duration of known diabetes.Among forty-seven patients taking oral drugs, 23 per cent made "potentially serious" errors, and 26 per cent reported missing one dose or more per month.The findings indicate the need for more extensive knowledge of what the diabetic patient does at home, for seeking the reasons for his behavior, and for finding ways to achieve sustained-improved performance. DIABETES 16:882-85, December, 1967.

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THE DIFFICULTIES in achieving measlesimmunization in 12-to 15-month-old children in Hopkins County, Ky., have been described in a previous retrospective study (1), in which we also assessed the effect of mailed notices to the parents urging protection against measles. A rather small number of childrenonly about one-half-were found to be protected against measles either by natural disease or by inununization. Moreover, no effect of the mailed notices could be detected.In

Generalized alterations in venous tone may shift large amounts of blood within the vascular system. Both physical and emotional stimuli are capable of affecting venous tone. The present report is a study in healthy males of the effects of certain of these factors on pressure (tone) in a peripheral vein segment isolated by means of specially designed, Plexiglas vein oecluders. The emotional stimuli employed were the most effective of the group in inci'easing venous tone.