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This Week in the Journal
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Perspective
Reconstructing Lives — A Tale of Two Soldiers
S. Okie
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Statistics and Medicine: The Limitations of Risk Factors as Prognostic Tools
J. H. Ware
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Original Articles
A Randomized Trial of Diagnostic Techniques for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
The Canadian Critical Care Trials Group
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Multiple Biomarkers for the Prediction of First Major Cardiovascular Events and Death
T. J. Wang and Others
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Ertapenem versus Cefotetan Prophylaxis in Elective Colorectal Surgery
K. M.F. Itani and Others
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PET of Brain Amyloid and Tau in Mild Cognitive Impairment
G. W. Small and Others
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Review Articles
Medical Education: Teaching Surgical Skills — Changes in the Wind
R. K. Reznick and H. MacRae
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Current Concepts: Autoimmune Pancreatitis
D. L. Finkelberg, D. Sahani, V. Deshpande, and W. R. Brugge
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  Images in Clinical Medicine
Disseminated Paracoccidioidomycosis and Coinfection with HIV
G. Castro and R. Martinez
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Multiple Pulmonary Bacterial Abscesses
J.-Y. Chen and Y.-H. Li
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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Case 39-2006 — A 24-Year-Old Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Seizures, and Right Arm Weakness
J.-H. J. Cha and Others
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Editorial
Diagnosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
M. H. Kollef
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Carbapenems for Surgical Prophylaxis?
D. J. Sexton
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Technical-Skills Training in the 21st Century
R. Aggarwal and A. Darzi
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Clinical Implications of Basic Research
The Persistence of Memory
M. R. Cookson and J. Hardy
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Correspondence
Overweight, Obesity, and Mortality
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Body-Mass Index and Mortality in Korean Men and Women
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Social Anxiety Disorder
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Cancer Stem Cells
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Cerebral Aneurysms
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Use of Statins and Outcome of BCG Treatment for Bladder Cancer
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Book Reviews
Epstein–Barr Virus
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MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology
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Carcinoma of an Unknown Primary Site
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Apoptosis and Cancer Therapy: From Cutting-Edge Science to Novel Therapeutic Concepts
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Corrections
A Proposal for Radical Changes in the Drug-Approval Process
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Carotid-Artery Stenting — Case Open or Closed?
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The Severe Gout of Emperor Charles V
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