NEJM 29 Sep 2016 Vol 375 Creating a Zika vaccine In the 15th century, sailors from Cadiz set sail under a captain from Genoa to find the western route from Europe […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Richard Lehman’s journal review—26 September 2016
NEJM 22 Sep 2016 Vol 375 Learning to love data parasites Back in January, the chief editor of the NEJM joined many other leading journal editors in signing a radical […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—19 September 2016
NEJM 15 Sep 2016 Vol 375 Preherpetic vaccines in the old For most people who get shingles, the rash and discomfort last for a couple of weeks and then gradually […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—12 September 2016
NEJM 8 Sep 2016 Vol 375 CPAP & CV events I adore CPAP and bless the night when she arrived in my life. I embrace her—or rather she embraces me—for […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 September 2016
NEJM 1 Sep 2016 Vol 375 Adding LABAs to steroid inhalers This week’s print NEJM contains two trials of adding inhaled long acting beta-adrenergic agents to inhaled corticosteroids. The first recruited […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—30 August 2016
After a month’s break, I’m catching up with articles of interest in the main non-BMJ journals throughout August. Normal service will be resumed next week. NEJM Aug 2016 Vol 375 […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—25 July 2016
NEJM 21 July 2016 Vol 375 MenB vaccination for students 220 We’ve been waiting for decades to get a vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B. But now that it’s arrived, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—18 July 2016
NEJM 14 July 2016 Vol 375 Olanzapine stops chemo vomiting 134 For about five thousand years, doctors sought out plants that would make their patients vomit, believing that this would […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—11 July 2016
NEJM 7 July 2016 Vol 375 Bayesian cancer trials I’m glad I haven’t got any cancer that I know of. I’m not unique in that, but I’m of an age […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—4 July 2016
NEJM 30 Jun 2016 Vol 374 Cervical sense 2509 This week’s NEJM is an odd mix of the down-to-earth and the arcane. The down-to-earth comes first, ahead of midostaurin for […]