I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

New England Journal of Medicine Audio Summary for April 20, 2006

From the NEJM:
This summary covers the issue of April 20, 2006. Featured are articles on the efficacy and safety of corticosteroids for persistent ARDS, a therapeutic intervention for prehypertension, oral ondansetron for gastroenteritis in a pediatric emergency department, clopidogrel and aspirin versus aspirin alone to prevent atherothrombotic events; a review article on scabies; a case report of a man with hemoptysis and a pulmonary infiltrate; and Perspective articles on private health care in Canada, on the NIH budget and the future of biomedical research, and on the challenge of reporting subgroup analyses.
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