NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 354, No. 10.
This summary covers the issue of March 9, 2006. Featured are articles on entecavir and lamivudine for HBeAg-positive and HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B, thalidomide and hematopoietic-cell transplantation for multiple myeloma, birth and abortion rates in Texas after enforcement of a parental notification law, and on Congress, controlled substances, and physician-assisted suicide; review articles on supraventricular tachycardia and on the management of crush-related injuries after disasters; a case report of a man with altered mental status and acute renal failure; and Perspective articles on the Supreme Court and the purposes of medicine and on the growing burden of kidney disease in Pakistan and the developing world. |
