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This Week in the Journal
Article Summaries
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Perspective
Traumatic Brain Injury in the War Zone
S. Okie
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Perinatal Mortality in Developing Countries
J. Zupan
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Original Articles
Cystatin C and the Risk of Death and Cardiovascular Events among Elderly Persons
M. G. Shlipak and Others
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Colonoscopic Screening of Average-Risk Women for Colorectal Neoplasia
P. Schoenfeld and Others
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Transplantation of Umbilical-Cord Blood in Babies with Infantile Krabbe's Disease
M. L. Escolar and Others
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Asthma as a Risk Factor for Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
T. R. Talbot and Others
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Special Articles
An Intervention Involving Traditional Birth Attendants and Perinatal and Maternal Mortality in Pakistan
A. H. Jokhio, H. R. Winter, and K. K. Cheng
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Clinical Practice
Overweight Children and Adolescents
W. H. Dietz and T. N. Robinson
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  Images in Clinical Medicine
Asphyxia Due to an Inhaled Foreign Body
N. Zarrin-Khameh and R. E. Lyon
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Chromoblastomycosis
M. Brown and G. Pasvol
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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Case 15-2005 — An 80-Year-Old Man with Shortness of Breath, Edema, and Proteinuria
L. M. Dember, J.-A. O. Shepard, F. Nesta, and J. R. Stone
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Editorial
Using Every Resource to Care for Our Casualties
J. M. Drazen
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Chronic Kidney Disease in the Elderly — How to Assess Risk
L. A. Stevens and A. S. Levey
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Early Use of Drastic Therapy
K. I. Weinberg
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Legal Issues in Medicine
Unspeakably Cruel — Torture, Medical Ethics, and the Law
G. J. Annas
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Correspondence
Recombinant Activated Factor VII for Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage
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Treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes
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EGFR Mutation and Response of Lung Cancer to Gefitinib
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Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for HIV
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Unhealthy Alcohol Use
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The Unturned Stone
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Zidovudine and Red-Cell Distribution Width
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Book Reviews
The Price of Smoking
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Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health
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Sleep Deprivation: Clinical Issues, Pharmacology, and Sleep Loss Effects
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Psychopharmacology: Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior
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Corrections
Elevated Plasma Factor VIII and D-Dimer Levels as Predictors of Poor Outcomes of Thrombosis in Children
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Amiodarone or an Implantable Cardioverter–Defibrillator for Congestive Heart Failure
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U.K. Controlled Trial of Intrapleural Streptokinase for Pleural Infection
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