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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
NEJM 30 Jan 2014 Vol 370 There is very little in the print journals this week, and JAMA is taking a week out, so this seems like a good opportunity […]