NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 354, No. 11.
This summary covers the issue of March 16, 2006. Featured are articles on CD4+ cells and invariant T-cell receptor–positive natural killer T cells in asthma, maintenance treatment of major depression in old age, transfer of single blastocyst-stage and cleavage-stage embryos for in vitro fertilization, microRNAs as therapeutic targets, and the differences among socioeconomic subgroups in the quality of health care poor-quality health care; review articles on delirium in older persons and on the regulation of immune responses by T cells; a case report of a woman with Crohn’s disease and altered mental status; and Perspective articles on human papillomavirus vaccine and on becoming a physician — teaching the cardiac examination and learning whether laughter is the best medicine. |
