New England Journal of MedicineThe New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) RSS feed -- current issue. NEJM (http://www.nejm.org) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practiceBOOK REVIEW: Diseases of the Pancreas: Current Surgical Therapy- August 13, 2008 <p>The pancreas is one of the least accessible abdominal organs, and even in the 21st century it carries an aura of mystery and challenge. Benign diseases of the pancreas are ...http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/7/770?rss=1&query=current BOOK REVIEW: Principles and Practice of Gastrointestinal Oncology- August 13, 2008 <p>This textbook is an informative resource concerning core principles and practices in gastrointestinal oncology. It covers a wide range of practice areas, with good examples of pathology and radiologic images ...http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/7/771?rss=1&query=current BOOK REVIEW: Prostate Cancer: Signaling Networks, Genetics, and New Treatment Strategies- August 13, 2008 <p>More than 218,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed every year in the United States. Great improvements in diagnosis and treatment have been made over the past two decades, ...http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/7/772?rss=1&query=current CME: Case 25-2008: A 43-Year-Old Man with Fatigue and Lesions in the Pituitary and Cerebellum- August 13, 2008 (No abstract is available for this citation)http://cme.nejm.org/cgi/cme/nejmcme_course;NJ200808143590728?rss=1&query=current IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Imaging of Thebesian Venous System- August 13, 2008 <p>During left ventriculography in a 46-year-old man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, we injected 20 ml of contrast material, using a power injector at a rate of 10 ml per second through ...http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/7/e8?rss=1&query=current CASE RECORDS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: Case 25-2008 -- A 43-Year-Old Man with Fatigue and Lesions in the Pituitary and Cerebellum- August 13, 2008 A 43-year-old man was seen in the rheumatology clinic because of fatigue and lesions in the pituitary and cerebellum. Diabetes insipidus, hypogonadism, and hypothyroidism had developed beginning 9 years earlier, and lesions had been detected in the region of the pituitary stalk and in the cerebellum. He was treated with glucocorticoids for suspected neurosarcoidosis, but fatigue, ataxia, and neurologic symptoms worsened. Computed tomography of the chest and abdomen disclosed abnormal soft...http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/7/736?rss=1&query=current ORIGINAL ARTICLE: The Effects of Tibolone in Older Postmenopausal Women- August 13, 2008 In this trial, tibolone, which has estrogenic, progestogenic, and androgenic effects, was compared with placebo in women between 60 and 85 who had osteoporosis or a vertebral fracture. Tibolone was associated with a reduced risk of fracture, breast cancer, and possibly colon cancer. But the drug was associated with an increased risk of stroke and therefore should generally be avoided in elderly women and in women with risk factors for stroke. <P>http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/7/697?rss=1&query=current IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Infrarenal Aortic Occlusion- August 13, 2008 <p>A 55-year-old woman awoke with an acute onset of bilateral leg numbness and weakness. Initial evaluation and lumbar magnetic resonance imaging, which was performed to assess the patient for disk ...http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/7/735?rss=1&query=current PERSPECTIVE: The Boundaries of Organ Donation after Circulatory Death- August 13, 2008 Organ Donation after Cardiac Death In this issue of the Journal, Boucek et al. (pages 709-714) report on three cases of heart transplantation from infants who were pronounced dead on ...http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/7/669?rss=1&query=current REVIEW ARTICLE: Molecular Origins of Cancer: Chromosomal Abnormalities in Cancer- August 13, 2008 This review gives an account of chromosomal aberrations in cancer cells. Such abnormalities have typically been associated with hematologic cancers, but recent work has shown a variety of chromosomal changes in solid tumors, including prostate cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer. The authors point out that some of the chromosomal abnormalities have revealed targets for cancer treatment, and others have clinical application in the diagnosis of certain types of neoplasms and in the formulation..http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/7/722?rss=1&query=current |