Major investments in basic science have created an opportunity for significant progress in clinical medicine. Researchers have discovered hundreds of genes that harbor variations contributing to ...
Posted by NEJM • December 23rd, 2009 • Printer-friendly Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D. Early in 2009, members of major health care–related industries such as insurance companies, pharmaceutical ...
Dr. Robert W. McGarrah (Medicine): A 20-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of sore throat, fever, and a diffuse rash. The patient had been well until approximately 4 weeks ...
Dr. Claudius H.O. Conrad (Surgery): A 35-year-old woman was transferred to this hospital because of abdominal pain, fever, and hypotension. Three days earlier, an elective cesarean section was ...
View larger version (44K):[in this window][in a new window]A 74-year-old man with diabetes and hypertension was referred to our hospital for evaluation of a mass in the right side of the chest, ...
A representative example is familial dysautonomia, a severe neurologic condition, the incidence of which has decreased precipitously since population screening began in 2001 (see graph). View larger ...
Posted by NEJM • October 21st, 2009 • Eric B. Larson, M.D., M.P.H. “On January 1, 1947, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound began delivering a new kind of healthcare. Consumers paid flat ...
A 27-year-old man was seen in the outpatient pulmonary division of this hospital because of progressive dyspnea and decreased exercise tolerance. Approximately 2 years earlier, the patient noted a ...
Dr. Jeffrey S. Ustin (Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care): A 26-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of abdominal distention and shock. The patient had been well ...
Background Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common and aggressive cancer that occurs mainly in men. We examined microRNA expression patterns, survival, and response to interferon alfa in both men and ...
In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader ...
OBJECTIVE There is limited information on whether increased serum uric acid levels are independently associated with cardiovascular mortality in type 2 diabetes. We assessed the predictive role ...