NEJM 10 Apr 2014 Vol 370 OL A deadly virus has been conquered. Hepatitis C genotype 1 can be cleared with a simple oral combination treatment, and compared to that, […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Richard Lehman’s journal review—7 April 2014
NEJM 3 Apr 2014 Vol 370 1287 Multitarget stool testing, you will be pleased to hear, is not the most important topic in the NEJM this week. There is in […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—31 March 2014
NEJM 27 Mar 2014 Vol 370 1189 I sing the body mitotic: we are a mass of cells dividing, mutating, cannibalizing, spreading. The wonder is not that we ever die […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—24 March 2013
NEJM 20 Mar 2014 Vol 370 1091 Please follow these instructions carefully: 1. Remove half of the skull, taking care to ensure you have chosen the appropriate side. 2. Repair […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—17 March 2014
NEJM 13 Mar 2014 Vol 370 1029 Doctors, by and large, make bad scientists. We train our minds for years in some of the hardest intellectual disciplines, and then make […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—10 March 2014
NEJM 6 Mar 2014 Vol 370 901 The cat and mouse game of man versus human immunodeficiency virus has just taken a new turn. HIV kills off CD4 T cells […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 March 2014
NEJM 27 Feb 2014 Vol 370 799 I’ve reached the age when people look back and sigh and cluck about the way the world has changed since they were children. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—24 February 2014
NEJM 20 Feb 2014 Vol 370 699 This week, the NEJM is big on bevacizumab. Amongst the crowd of mabs, this is one of the best known: Avastin is a […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—17 February 2014
NEJM 599 Most weeks I quote you the conclusion of some pharma-funded trial which overstates the benefit of an intervention. But in reality clinical trials of any kind can be a form […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—10 February 2014
NEJM 6 Feb 2014 Vol 370 513 Now that I’ve moved to a policy of including online first articles in these reviews, I’m immediately confronted with a problem: I’ve already […]