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NEJM This Week

Concise summaries of everything published in the latest weekly issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). NEJM publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 7, 2023 from 2023-12-06T10:30

Featuring articles on sotorasib plus panitumumab in KRAS-mutated colorectal cancer, baricitinib and β-cells in new-onset type 1 diabetes, teplizumab in youth with new-onset type 1 diabetes, and mir...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 30, 2023 from 2023-11-29T10:30

Featuring articles on levothyroxine for unstable brain-dead heart donors, amivantamab in lung cancer with EGFR exon 20 insertions, amikacin to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, and tarlatama...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 23, 2023 from 2023-11-22T10:30

Featuring articles on osimertinib and chemotherapy in EGFR-mutated non–small-cell lung cancer, transcatheter aortic-valve replacement in low-risk patients at five years, erdafitinib or chemotherapy...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 16, 2023 from 2023-11-15T10:30

Featuring articles on selpercatinib in RET fusion–positive NSCLC, selpercatinib in RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer, gantenerumab in early Alzheimer’s disease, and stimulated copeptin to diagnos...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 9, 2023 from 2023-11-08T10:30

Featuring articles on genetic variation and life span in Iceland, botulinum toxin for head tremor, decolonization in nursing homes to prevent infection, nivolumab plus chemotherapy in urothelial ca...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 2, 2023 from 2023-11-01T10:30

Featuring articles on thalidomide for recurrent bleeding due to small-intestinal angiodysplasia, pulsed field ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, perioperative chemoimmunotherapy in lung c...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 26, 2023 from 2023-10-25T10:30

Featuring articles on patisiran for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis, automated insulin delivery in pregnancy complicated by diabetes, nemolizumab for prurigo nodularis, convalescent plasma for Co...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 19, 2023 from 2023-10-18T10:30

Featuring articles on on enzalutamide and leuprolide in prostate cancer, optical coherence tomography (OCT)–guided versus angiography-guided PCI, vancomycin and cefazolin prophylaxis in arthroplast...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 12, 2023 from 2023-10-11T10:30

Featuring articles on dexamethasone for TB meningitis in HIV-positive adults, the timing of complete revascularization after myocardial infarction, catheter ablation for advanced heart failure and ...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 5, 2023 from 2023-10-04T10:30

Featuring articles on sarilumab for relapsing polymyalgia rheumatica; modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality; extracorporeal life support in cardiogenic shock; and esketamin...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 28, 2023 from 2023-09-27T10:30

Featuring articles on anticoagulation and atrial high-rate episodes, tight blood-glucose control in patients in the ICU, increasing artemisinin-resistant malaria in Eritrea, the death of a patient ...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 21, 2023 from 2023-09-20T10:30

Featuring articles on semaglutide for heart failure in patients with obesity, inhaled fluticasone furoate for treatment of Covid-19, a trial of solanezumab in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, and t...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 14, 2023 from 2023-09-13T10:30

Featuring articles on ferric carboxymaltose for heart failure with iron deficiency, antibiotic prophylaxis in infants with vesicoureteral reflux, the FGF21 analogue pegozafermin in NASH, and mezigd...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 7, 2023 from 2023-09-06T10:30

Featuring articles on the GLP-1 receptor agonist orforglipron for obesity, PCI in older patients with myocardial infarction, DNA editing in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and atezolizumab in ...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — April 21, 2022 from 2022-04-20T10:30

Featuring articles on restricted calories and eating times in weight loss, asthma therapy in Black and Latinx adults, ivosidenib in IDH1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia, vaccine boost effects on pro...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — April 14, 2022 from 2022-04-13T10:30

Featuring articles on nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir for Covid-19, the treatment of acute Achilles’ tendon rupture, rilzabrutinib in immune thrombocytopenia, mitapivat for pyruvate kinase deficiency, ...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — April 7, 2022 from 2022-04-06T10:30

Featuring articles on endovascular therapy for large cerebral infarction, population immunity and Covid-19 severity with the omicron variant in South Africa, tebipenem for complicated urinary tract...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — March 31, 2022 from 2022-03-30T10:30

Featuring articles on Covid-19 after vaccination and previous infection, vaccination after recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection, mini-slings for stress incontinence in women, higher-dose primaquine f...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — March 24, 2022 from 2022-03-23T10:30

Featuring articles on a single-dose liposomal amphotericin B treatment for cryptococcal meningitis, hydrocortisone to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia, darolutamide in metastatic prostate cancer,...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — March 17, 2022 from 2022-03-16T10:30

Featuring articles on gene therapy for hemophilia A, prekallikrein and hereditary angioedema, a trial of a cereblon modulator in lupus, and the immune effects of Covid-19 vaccine boosters; a review...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — March 10, 2022 from 2022-03-09T10:30

Featuring articles on shorter-course TB treatment in children, thyroidectomy without radioiodine, Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness in North Carolina, ribociclib in hormone receptor–positive breast ca...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — March 3, 2022 from 2022-03-02T10:30

Featuring articles on a balanced multielectrolyte solution versus saline in critically ill adults, troponin I after cardiac surgery and 30-day mortality, nirsevimab for prevention of RSV in infants...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — February 24, 2022 from 2022-02-23T10:30

Featuring articles on the effectiveness of the BNT162B2 vaccine in adolescents, the treatment of epileptiform activity after cardiac arrest, mechanisms of resistance to noncovalent BTK inhibitors, ...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — February 17, 2022 from 2022-02-16T10:30

Featuring articles on LentiGlobin for sickle cell disease, tisagenlecleucel in aggressive B-cell lymphoma, axi-cel for relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma, and EDP-938 to treat respiratory...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — February 10, 2022 from 2022-02-09T10:30

Featuring articles on molnupiravir for outpatient treatment of Covid-19, cemented or uncemented hemiarthroplasty for hip fracture, efficacy of the NVX-CoV2373 vaccine against Covid-19, PD-1 inhibit...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — February 3, 2022 from 2022-02-02T10:30

Featuring articles on gene therapy for β-thalassemia, mosquito nets and survival to adulthood in Tanzania, lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab for advanced endometrial cancer, and immune checkpoint thera...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — January 27, 2022 from 2022-01-26T10:30

Featuring articles on remdesivir for prevention of Covid-19 progression, cardiovascular and cancer risk with tofacitinib, tricuspid repair in mitral-valve surgery, duration of Covid-19 vaccine prot...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — January 20, 2022 from 2022-01-19T10:30

Featuring articles on a randomized closed-loop trial in very young children with diabetes, microbiome therapy for C. difficile infection, secondary prophylaxis for latent rheumatic heart disease, t...

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NEJM This Week
Rapid Diagnostic Testing for SARS-CoV-2 by P.K. Drain from 2022-01-12T10:30

A 38-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes has a telemedicine visit after learning that a person with whom she had close contact at an indoor wedding 3 days earlier has tested positive for severe acu...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — January 13, 2022 from 2022-01-12T10:30

Featuring articles on the efficacy of mRNA vaccines in U.S. veterans, Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness in New York state, FFR-guided PCI as compared with coronary bypass surgery, an acute myeloid leu...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — January 6, 2022 from 2022-01-05T10:30

Featuring articles on eltrombopag in severe aplastic anemia, nivolumab plus LAG-3 blockade in melanoma, the BNT162b2 vaccine against Covid-19 in 5-to-11-year-olds, azithromycin for yaws eradication...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 30, 2021 from 2021-12-29T10:30

Featuring articles on chlorthalidone for hypertension in advanced chronic kidney disease, ticagrelor versus clopidogrel in stroke or transient ischemic attack, dolutegravir in children with HIV-1 i...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 23, 2021 from 2021-12-22T10:30

Featuring articles on the effects of a Covid-19 vaccine booster, spesolimab for generalized pustular psoriasis, decentralized molecular testing for tuberculosis, and consultative medicine; a review...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 16, 2021 from 2021-12-15T10:30

Featuring articles on daprodustat in patients undergoing dialysis and in those not undergoing dialysis, chemotherapy in node-positive breast cancer, a phase 3 trial of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine, ...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 9, 2021 from 2021-12-08T10:30

Featuring articles on tapinarof cream for psoriasis, dupilumab in children with asthma, the mRNA-1273 vaccine in adolescents, cardiovascular events with finerenone in kidney disease and type 2 diab...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 2, 2021 from 2021-12-01T10:30

We discuss the latest in medical research and ideas.

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 25, 2021 from 2021-11-24T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 18, 2021 from 2021-11-17T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 11, 2021 from 2021-11-10T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 4, 2021 from 2021-11-03T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 28, 2021 from 2021-10-27T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 21, 2021 from 2021-10-20T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 14, 2021 from 2021-10-13T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 7, 2021 from 2021-10-06T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 30, 2021 from 2021-09-29T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 23, 2021 from 2021-09-22T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 16, 2021 from 2021-09-15T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 9, 2021 from 2021-09-08T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 2, 2021 from 2021-09-01T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — August 26, 2021 from 2021-08-25T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — August 19, 2021 from 2021-08-18T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — August 12, 2021 from 2021-08-11T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — August 5, 2021 from 2021-08-04T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — July 29, 2021 from 2021-07-28T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — July 22, 2021 from 2021-07-21T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — July 15, 2021 from 2021-07-14T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — July 8, 2021 from 2021-07-07T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — July 1, 2021 from 2021-06-30T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — June 24, 2021 from 2021-06-23T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — June 17, 2021 from 2021-06-16T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — June 10, 2021 from 2021-06-09T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — June 3, 2021 from 2021-06-02T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — May 27, 2021 from 2021-05-26T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — May 20, 2021 from 2021-05-19T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — May 13, 2021 from 2021-05-12T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — May 6, 2021 from 2021-05-05T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — April 29, 2021 from 2021-04-28T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — April 22, 2021 from 2021-04-21T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — April 15, 2021 from 2021-04-14T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — April 8, 2021 from 2021-04-07T10:30

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — April 1, 2021 from 2021-03-31T12:30

Featuring articles on adjuvant nivolumab in esophageal cancer, sotatercept for pulmonary arterial hypertension, lumasiran for primary hyperoxaluria type 1, upadacitinib for psoriatic arthritis, and...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — March 25, 2021 from 2021-03-24T11:30

Featuring articles on the efficacy of the ALVAC–gp120 HIV vaccine, a JAK inhibitor or interleukin-4 blockade for atopic dermatitis, semaglutide for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, enfortumab vedotin ...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — March 18, 2021 from 2021-03-17T11:30

Featuring articles on once-weekly semaglutide in adults with overweight or obesity, neutralizing antibodies to prevent HIV-1 infection, passive immunotherapy in patients with Covid-19, inhibition o...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — March 11, 2021 from 2021-03-10T11:30

Featuring articles on a randomized trial of gestational diabetes screening, a neutralizing monoclonal antibody for hospitalized patients with Covid-19, risdiplam in type 1 spinal muscular atrophy, ...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — March 4, 2021 from 2021-03-03T11:30

Featuring articles on baricitinib plus remdesivir for adults with Covid-19, albumin infusions in patients with cirrhosis, a trial of terlipressin for hepatorenal syndrome, nivolumab plus cabozantin...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — February 25, 2021 from 2021-02-24T11:30

Featuring articles on dexamethasone treatment in Covid-19, BCMA-specific CAR T cells in refractory myeloma, a cholinergic agonist and peripheral antagonist for schizophrenia, the Center for Medicar...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — February 18, 2021 from 2021-02-17T11:30

Featuring articles on a C5a receptor inhibitor for ANCA vasculitis, convalescent plasma in Covid-19, relugolix combination therapy for uterine fibroid symptoms, and promoting Covid-19 vaccination i...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — February 11, 2021 from 2021-02-10T11:30

Featuring articles on repurposed antiviral drugs for Covid-19, a tirbanibulin ointment for actinic keratosis, a vestibular implant for bilateral vestibular hypofunction, antibodies and SARS-CoV-2 i...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — February 4, 2021 from 2021-02-03T11:30

Featuring articles on an mRNA-1273 vaccine to prevent Covid-19, a trial of hydroxychloroquine to prevent Covid-19, breast cancer risk revisited, much ado about certain breast cancer genes, and race...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 12, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We discuss the latest in medical research and ideas.

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 5, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 26, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — November 19, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — January 14, 2021 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Featuring articles on omecamtiv mecarbil in systolic heart failure, sotagliflozin in diabetes with heart failure, sotagliflozin for heart failure in diabetes and kidney disease, bupropion and naltr...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — January 7, 2021 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Featuring articles on sitagliptin for prevention of acute GVHD, tocilizumab in Covid-19 pneumonia, rilonacept in recurrent pericarditis, vaginal mother-to-child transmission of cancer, and on wheth...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 31, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Featuring articles on the safety and efficacy of an RNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, dexamethasone in chronic subdural hematoma, sleuthing out a severe adult inflammatory disorder, hemoglobin transfus...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 24, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Featuring articles on ultrasound subthalamotomy for Parkinson’s disease, antenatal dexamethasone for early preterm birth, oral azacitidine maintenance therapy for AML, paclitaxel-coated devices in ...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 17, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Featuring articles on SARS-CoV-2 transmission among Marine recruits, SARS-CoV-2 transmission on an aircraft carrier, an mRNA vaccine against Covid-19 in older adults, a phase 1 trial of an RNA-base...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — December 10, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Featuring articles on lipid lowering through activation of lipoprotein lipase, on a SARS-CoV-2 recombinant nanoparticle vaccine, on tocilizumab in Covid-19, and on survival with olaparib in prostat...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 29, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We discuss the latest in medical research and ideas.

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 22, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 15, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 8, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — October 1, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Featuring articles on early rhythm-control therapy for atrial fibrillation, evolocumab in heterozygous pediatric familial hypercholesterolemia, atezolizumab in non–small-cell lung cancer, HPV vacci...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — September 24, 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Featuring articles on a RAS oncogene inhibitor at last, avelumab maintenance therapy in bladder cancer, lower-dose zinc for childhood diarrhea, antisense oligonucleotides for hereditary angioedema,...

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NEJM This Week
NEJM This Week — January 28, 2021 from 2021-01-27T11:30

Featuring articles on cryoablation for atrial fibrillation, inhaled treprostinil in interstitial lung disease, a levonorgestrel vs. copper IUD for emergency contraception, the return of cardiac act...

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