NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 357, No. 7.
This summary covers the issue of August 16, 2007. Featured are articles on a genetic risk factor for periodic limb movements in sleep, medical abortion and the risk of subsequent pregnancy outcomes, sonification of removed hip and knee prostheses for the diagnosis of infection, prophylactic cranial irradiation in extensive small-cell lung cancer, a decade of direct-to-consumer prescription-drug advertising, and adherent invasive E. coli and Crohn’s disease; a review article on psoralen and ultraviolet A light therapy for psoriasis; a case report of a man with fever, odynophagia, weight loss, and rash; and Perspective articles on keeping science on top in drug evaluation and on when doctors become terrorists.
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