Richard Lehman’s journal review—8 June 2015
NEJM 4 Jun 2015 Vol 372 2185 If you are the sort of exciting doctor who looks after adults with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure, here is just the article you […]
NEJM 4 Jun 2015 Vol 372 2185 If you are the sort of exciting doctor who looks after adults with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure, here is just the article you […]
NEJM 28 May 2015 Vol 372 2087 Now that the NEJM has flagged up its position on conflicts of interest, it’s definitely a case of caveat lector—looking hard at what […]
NEJM 21 May 2015 Vol 372 2064 The NEJM has the highest reputation of any medical journal, so it’s impossible not to feel dismay when it lets its standards slip […]
NEJM 14 May 2015 Vol 372 1887 Something strange seems to be going on in the New England Journal of Medicine. This week it publishes two trials of gene therapy […]
NEJM 7 May 2015 Vol 372 1860 This week the NEJM is offering everyone a free lunch, in the form of an open access article and editorial on the theme […]
NEJM 30 April 2015 Vol 372 1684 “Virtual Visits—Confronting the Challenges of Telemedicine” is a Perspective piece which starts full of optimism about the potential of telemedicine and then switches […]
NEJM 23 Apr 2015 Vol 372 Last week, dear friends, we kicked off with alirocumab and evolocumab. This week it’s the turn of nivolumab, ipilimumab, and pembrolizumab. It’s driving me […]
NEJM 16 April 2015 Vol 372 1489 Your learning task this week is to memorise “proprotein convertase subtilisin–kexin type 9 (PCSK9).” The next big lipid lowering debate will be all […]
NEJM 9 Apr 2015 Vol 372 1389 The major trials of coronary artery thrombus aspiration for myocardial infarction are TAPAS, TASTE, and TOTAL. Think of a bar crawl in Seville. […]
NEJM 2 April 2015 Vol 372 372 In English nursery rhyme, it is traditional for a Duke to have 10 000 men. Here is a trial from Duke University that […]