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NEJM This Week — January 16, 2025 Jan 15, 2025

Featuring articles on asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis, kidney disease, fracture prevention in women, and residual breast cancer, the future of the U.S. physician workforce, mutant KRAS signaling, and manufactured chemicals and children’s health; a review article on the identification and treatment of alcohol use disorder; a case report of a man with loss of consciousness and a fall; and Perspectives on striking a balance, on changing Medicare payment to strengthen primary care, and on Schrödinger’s cancer.

NEJM This Week — January 9, 2025 Jan 08, 2025

Featuring articles on transcatheter tricuspid-valve replacement, persistent chylomicronemia, multiple myeloma, myelofibrosis, and peripherally inserted central catheter materials; a review article on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; a case report of a woman with shortness of breath and leg edema; and Perspectives on the plight of “dual noneligible” people in the United States, Texas Executive Order GA-46, improving outcomes after fragility fractures, and on seeing the harm.

NEJM This Week — January 2, 2025 Jan 01, 2025

Featuring articles on advanced melanoma, atrial fibrillation, ATTR amyloidosis, and bladder cancer; a review article on cervical cancer; a Clinical Problem-Solving describing when blurry vision clouds the bigger picture; Medicine and Society’s on transitional justice and on rethinking access to HIV medicines; and Perspectives on hepatitis C therapies, on when diversity goals meet multiregional trials, and on miles to go and nowhere to sleep.

NEJM This Week — December 19, 2024 Dec 18, 2024

Featuring articles on cancer cachexia, MDR tuberculosis, Ebola virus disease, and severe asthma; a review article on the nonsurgical management of chronic venous insufficiency; a case report of a woman with end-stage liver disease and headache; and Perspectives on providing effective medical care to autistic people, on independent physician associations, on face-to-face learning, and on those who are well known to us.

NEJM This Week — December 12, 2024 Dec 11, 2024

Featuring articles on PCI before transcatheter aortic-valve implantation, treatments in patients with type 2 diabetes, in leprosy, in refractory adult ALL, and in ATTR cardiomyopathy; a review article on drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms; a case report of a boy with recurrent fever; and Perspectives on an autopsy of a drug withdrawal, on clearing dense drug-patent thickets, on how a survey change sheds light on iatrogenic opioid use disorder and on being tethered.

NEJM This Week — December 5, 2024 Dec 04, 2024

Featuring articles on treatments for atrial fibrillation and stable coronary disease, for chronic hepatitis B, and for metastatic breast cancer; the 30-year cardiovascular disease risk in healthy women; and prenatal screening and detection of maternal cancer; a review article on sepsis and septic shock; a case report of a woman with headache, fever, and respiratory failure; and Perspectives on Medicare’s bundled-payment programs, on handcuffs and unexpected deaths, on the Marburg outbreak in Rwanda, and on the care that saved one parent.

NEJM This Week — November 28, 2024 Nov 27, 2024

Featuring articles on pembrolizumab perioperative therapy in breast cancer, reduced dose schedules or fractional doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, and nivolumab plus ipilimumab in colorectal cancer; a review article on degenerative rotator-cuff disorders; a case report of a man with seizures and agitation; a Clinical Implications of Basic Research on boning up on boning up; and Perspectives on the Duffy null phenotype; on sickle cell trait, inequity, and the need for change, on “target trial emulation” for observational studies, and on a good day.

NEJM This Week — November 21, 2024 Nov 20, 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.

NEJM This Week — November 14, 2024 Nov 13, 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.

NEJM This Week — November 7, 2024 Nov 06, 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.

NEJM This Week — October 31, 2024 Oct 30, 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.

NEJM This Week — October 24, 2024 Oct 23, 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.

NEJM This Week — October 17, 2024 Oct 16, 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.

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