NEJM This Week – Audio Summaries
New medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.
NEJM This Week — November 21, 2024
Featuring articles on a nationwide couple-based genetic screening; adjunctive embolization for subdural hematoma; a late-liver-stage attenuated malaria vaccine; and climate change, floods, and human health; a review article on Candida auris infections; a case report of a girl with abdominal pain; and Perspectives on Medicare’s first round of drug-price negotiation; on invisible deaths; on minding the sentinel; and on Saint Didacus, fetal death, and dual loyalty. Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 391, No. 20.
November 20, 2024
NEJM This Week — November 14, 2024
Featuring articles on perioperative durvalumab in bladder cancer, transcatheter valve repair for mitral regurgitation, chemoradiotherapy in gastric cancer, and lessons from England’s National Health Service; a review article on lung transplantation; a case report of a newborn with hypoxemia and a lung opacity; and Perspectives on our latest brief case studies on efforts toward equity and on forensic nurse examiners. Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 391, No. 19.
November 13, 2024
NEJM This Week — November 7, 2024
Featuring articles on an invasive treatment strategy in older patients with myocardial infarction, a randomized trial of very early medication abortion, therapies in stage III melanoma, and on long Covid defined; a review article on uterine fibroids; a Clinical Problem-Solving on two sides to the story; and Perspectives on the U.S. Latino HIV crisis, on reframing cerebral palsy as a lifelong disability, and on an older patient and his physician finding an immediate, resonant connection in a haunting song recalled from long ago and far away. Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 391, No. 18.
November 6, 2024
NEJM This Week — October 31, 2024
Featuring articles on semaglutide in persons with obesity and knee osteoarthritis, the addition of PI3K inhibition in breast cancer, treatments in older patients with myeloma, and total hip replacement for hip osteoarthritis; a review article on lead poisoning; a case report of a man with dyspnea after old myocardial infarction; and Perspectives on large language models and the medical record, on measuring AI against the health care we have, on the failing U.S. health system, and on the contemporary rise of pronatalism. Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 391, No. 17.
October 30, 2024
NEJM This Week — October 24, 2024
Featuring articles on treatments in heart failure, advanced non–small-cell lung cancer, and Dupuytren’s contracture; a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by deletion in a long noncoding RNA; a review article on burnout and depression among physicians; a case report of a woman with confusion, aphasia, and a brain mass; a Medicine and Society article on how the idea of social contagion shaped trans medicine; and Perspectives on navigating clinicians’ conscience-based refusals, on opportunity costs of Medicare Advantage rebates, on celebrating public health, and on taking our own medicine. Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 391, No. 16.
October 23, 2024
NEJM This Week — October 17, 2024
Featuring articles on nivolumab in advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma, kidney transplantation from donors with HIV, a modular communicative leadless pacing–defibrillator system, stereotactic body radiotherapy in prostate cancer, and on how DNA sensing drives inflammation; a review article on cryoglobulinemia; a case report of a woman with dyspnea, dysphagia, and dysarthria; and a Special Report and Perspectives on the U.S. elections and health policy.
October 16, 2024
NEJM This Week — October 10, 2024
Featuring articles on beta-blocker use after myocardial infarction and treatments for cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy and for small-cell lung cancer; a review article on hairy-cell leukemia; a case report of a man with fever, myalgia, jaundice, and respiratory failure; and Perspectives on Mpox, on addressing health care cost growth, and on confirmatory trials of accelerated approval drugs. Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 391, No. 14.
October 9, 2024
NEJM This Week — October 3, 2024
Featuring articles on lenacapavir for HIV prevention in cisgender women, tirzepatide for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, lymphadenectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer, secondary T-cell lymphoma after CAR T-cell therapy, and immunity and early colorectal carcinogenesis; a review article on prolonged grief disorder; a Clinical Problem-Solving on avoiding rash decisions; and Perspectives on health care reform and the 2024 U.S. elections, on financial toxicity for patients from the use of AI, on the Supreme Court’s shadowy treatment of public health, and on caring for our communities. Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 391, No. 13.
October 2, 2024
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The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Weekly Audio Summary RSS Feed. NEJM is a weekly general medicinal journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.
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