NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 355, No. 6.
This summary covers the issue of August 10, 2006. Featured are articles on high-dose atorvastatin after stroke or transient ischemic attack, concordance among gene-expression–based predictors for breast cancer, a genomic strategy to refine prognosis in early-stage non–small-cell lung cancer, neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease responsive to interleukin-1β inhibition, and a proposal for radical changes to the drug-approval process; a review article on Paget's disease of bone; a case report of a woman with hypotension after an overdose of amlodipine; and Perspective articles on preimplantation diagnosis for genetic susceptibility, on direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic testing, on DNA testing and genetic privacy, and on turning the page at the CMAJ. |
