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Adopting Three State Gun Laws Nationally Could Greatly Reduce Firearm Deaths
The three most effective U.S. state gun laws, if adopted nationally, could reduce firearm-related mortality substantially, a Lancet study finds. Researchers examined 25 gun...
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Featured in NEJM Journal Watch: CBT or Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Depressed Outpatients?
After 16 sessions, depression in less than one fourth of patients remitted, and no differences were seen between treatments, according to a study in the...
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Featured in NEJM Journal Watch: Updated Guidelines for HER2 Testing in Breast Cancer
The guidelines carry recommendations for oncologists and pathologists. In NEJM Journal Watch, oncologist William Gradishar comments: "The availability of more human epidermal growth factor receptor...
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Featured in NEJM Journal Watch: Practice Guidelines Need Scrutiny
Two studies, one from the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and the other from the Journal of Clinical Oncology, reveal problems with guidelines — namely...
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Featured in NEJM Journal Watch: Tendon Involvement in Patients with Gout
Computed tomography reveals a high prevalence of involvement, especially in the Achilles and peroneal tendons, according to a study in the Annals of the Rheumatic...
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Follow-Up: Interview on Oral Contraceptives' Role in Reducing Endometrial Cancer Risk
Last week, findings from a Lancet Oncology study suggested that some 200,000 cases of endometrial cancer have been prevented over the past decade owing to...
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Dr. Arnold Relman, Former NEJM Editor-in-Chief, Dies at 91
Arnold S. Relman, MD, who edited the New England Journal of Medicine from 1977 to 1990, has died at age 91. Dr. Relman, an expert...
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Featured in NEJM Journal Watch: Economic Considerations in Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer
Use of intensity-modulated radiotherapy to treat prostate cancer increased dramatically from 2005 to 2010 among urologists who refer patients to radiotherapy facilities with which...
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Notes from a Gurney: An ED Physician Reports on Her Stint as a Trauma Patient
Dr. Charlotte Yeh was crossing the street in Washington, D.C., on her way to dinner when a car hit her. She ended up in a...
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Featured in NEJM Journal Watch: A New Clinical Decision Rule for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Pending validation in other samples, the new Ottawa SAH Rule could be 100% sensitive, but would it outperform clinical judgment...
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Montreal chemists develop fast DNA-based sensor for drug monitoring
Chemists at Université de Montréal have developed "signaling cascades" made with DNA molecules to report and quantify the concentration of various molecules in a drop of blood, all within 5 minutes.
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SGLT-2 inhibitors offer protection against autoimmune conditions
Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors used to treat type 2 diabetes are associated with an 11% lower risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, compared with another group of diabetes drugs called sulfonylureas, finds a study from South Korea published by The BMJ today.
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GLP-1 medications found to slow alcohol absorption and lessen intoxication
There's mounting evidence that popular drugs prescribed for diabetes management and weight loss - better known by trade names like Ozempic and Wegovy - could be effective in reducing alcohol use.
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In Mississippi, Medicaid coverage of weight loss drugs fails to catch on
April Hines has battled with her weight since she was a teenager. But in the past couple of years, she's fallen from 600 pounds to 385, and her blood pressure and blood sugar levels are down, too. "I'm not as fatigued as I used to be, and I've been able to go back to church," she said.
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Common hospice medications may carry major unintended risks for people with dementia
Hospice care aims to bring comfort, peace, and dignity to patients at the end of life. Yet for the growing number of Americans with dementia who enter hospice, their course is often long and unpredictable - making it especially important to ensure treatments align with each person's goals and stage of illness.
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