Richard Lehman’s journal review—28 January 2014
NEJM 23 Jan 2014 Vol 370 301 It’s hard to think of two places less alike than the icy expanses of Alaska and the hot claustrophobic depths of a South […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—20 January 2014
NEJM 16 Jan 2014 Vol 370 201 Developing and marketing a new drug is a tricky business, but it can be a very lucrative one. AiCuris is a company I […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—13 January 2014
JAMA Internal Medicine Jan 2014 Vol 174 I was amazed at the richness of the contents of JAMA Intern Med this week, but then I sadly realized that the journal […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—6 January 2014
NEJM 26 Dec 2013 Vol 369 2481 There was no let up in the American journals over what they call the holiday period, and the NEJM offered a trial of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review: Christmas issues
NEJM 19 Dec 2013 Vol 369 2379 The BMJ is alone among the journals in making any concession to festive frivolity. By contrast, the NEJM seems determined to prove that […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—16 December 2013
NEJM 12 Dec 2013 Vol 369 2283 This week most of the NEJM is taken up with trials of genotyping to guide starting doses of vitamin K antagonists. Fair enough: […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—9 December 2013
NEJM 5 Dec 2013 Vol 369 2183 Respect: this trial collected nearly a thousand patients who survived out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and ended up in one of 36 intensive care units […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—2 December 2013
NEJM 28 Nov 2013 Vol 369 2083 I like it that the NEJM has chosen to start this week’s firework show with a dud. Stand ready to be awed and […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—25 November 2013
NEJM 21 Nov 2013 Vol 369 1981 “The 2011 outbreak in China showed that poliomyelitis-free countries remain at risk for outbreaks while the poliovirus circulates anywhere in the world. Global […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—18 November 2013
NEJM 14 Nov 2013 Vol 369 1880 As the Affordable Care Act splutters into action in the USA, JAMA devotes a whole issue to discussing the problems of healthcare in […]