NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 355, No. 15.
This summary covers the issue of October 12, 2006. Featured are articles on the effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic drugs in patients with Alzheimer's disease, microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility assay for the diagnosis of tuberculosis, effect of ramipril on the incidence of diabetes, a self-regulation program for maintenance of weight loss, chronic health conditions in adult survivors of childhood cancer, and the role of microglia in amytorophic lateral sclerosis; a review article on external-beam radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer; a video demonstrating thoracentesis; a case report of a girl with severe obesity; and Perspective articles on ownership and use of human tissue, on doctors on strike in Germany, and on the two-edged sword of curing childhood cancer. |
