NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 356, No. 13.
This summary covers the issue of March 29, 2007. Featured are articles on MRI evaluation of the contralateral breast in women with recently diagnosed breast cancer, effect of torcetrapib on the progression of coronary atherosclerosis, telomerase mutations in familial idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, bronchial thermoplasty in asthma, and new insights on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; review articles on the varicella–zoster vaccine for the prevention of herpes zoster and on the withdrawal of albuterol inhalers containing CFC propellants; a case report of a man impaled in a rowing accident; and Perspective articles on the market for human oocytes and on the demise of the blockbuster drug. |
