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Perspective
Body of Research — Ownership and Use of Human Tissue
R. A. Charo
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Doctors on Strike — The Crisis in German Health Care Delivery
D. Nowak
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Focus on Research: The Two-Edged Sword of Curing Childhood Cancer
P. M. Rosoff
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Original Articles
Effectiveness of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
L. S. Schneider and Others
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Microscopic-Observation Drug-Susceptibility Assay for the Diagnosis of TB
D. A.J. Moore and Others
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Effect of Ramipril on the Incidence of Diabetes
The DREAM Trial Investigators
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A Self-Regulation Program for Maintenance of Weight Loss
R. R. Wing and Others
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Special Articles
Chronic Health Conditions in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
K. C. Oeffinger and Others
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Clinical Therapeutics
External-Beam Radiotherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer
T. M. Pisansky
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  Videos in Clinical Medicine
Thoracentesis
T. W. Thomsen, J. DeLaPena, and G. S. Setnik
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Images in Clinical Medicine
Medical Mystery — Visual-Field Defect
J. R. Mathura Jr. and L. M. Jampol
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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Case 31-2006 — A 15-Year-Old Girl with Severe Obesity
A. G. Hoppin, E. S. Katz, L. M. Kaplan, and G. Y. Lauwers
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Editorial
Alzheimer's Disease — Clinical Trials and the Logic of Clinical Purpose
J. Karlawish
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Rapid Detection of Tuberculosis and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
M. D. Iseman and L. B. Heifets
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Angiotensin-Converting–Enzyme Inhibitors for Impaired Glucose Tolerance — Is There Still Hope?
J. R. Ingelfinger and C. G. Solomon
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Clinical Implications of Basic Research
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — Are Microglia Killing Motor Neurons?
D. R. Borchelt
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Correspondence
Doxycycline for the Prevention of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever
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The Underrecognized Burden of Influenza
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Hospital Volume and Outcomes of Mechanical Ventilation
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Intensive Care of Patients with HIV Infection
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Long-Term Raloxifene in a Woman at High Risk for Breast Cancer
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Book Reviews
Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945–1953
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Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
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Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries
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Encounters with Children: Pediatric Behavior and Development
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Corrections
Salt-and-Pepper Retinopathy of Rubella
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Imatinib and Altered Bone and Mineral Metabolism
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