NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 357, No. 24.
This summary covers the issue of December 13, 2007. Featured are articles on dexamethasone in Vietnamese adolescents and adults with bacterial meningitis, corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis in adults in sub-Saharan Africa, outcomes 18 months after partial face transplantation, cardiac-resynchronization therapy in heart failure with narrow QRS complexes, and rapid expansion of the health workforce in response to the HIV epidemic; review articles on erectile dysfunction and on platelet activation and atherothrombosis; a case report of a woman with generalized, ulcerated skin lesions; and Perspective articles on managed-competition health insurance in the Netherlands, on Dutch doctors and health care reform, and on genetically manipulated mice and the Nobel Prize.
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