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Adopting Three State Gun Laws Nationally Could Greatly Reduce Firearm Deaths

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Pending validation in other samples, the new Ottawa SAH Rule could be 100% sensitive, but would it outperform clinical judgment...
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