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• Aranesp Associated With Increased Risk For Stroke In Patients With Diabetes And Chronic Kidney Disease

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 112
  TREAT Study Revealed, Also, That This Amgen Anemia Drug Was No Better Than Placebo In Reducing Deaths Or Cardiovascular Problems (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) The anemia drug Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa) might cause an increased risk for stroke in patients with diabetes and ...
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• HIV vaccines: good news or bad?

  
  The Wisdom of Whores — Authority: 404
  A month ago, the media got very excited about an HIV vaccine . Study results, released in Thailand with a maximum of fuss and a minimum of detail , showed that the two-step vaccine might protect about a third of the people who get the shots against HIV. Then the doom-mongers weighed in : without more information, ...
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• Study: Patients Suffer When Surgeons are Tired

  
  Lean Insider — Authority: 119
  I’ve written before about efforts to limit the numbers of hours doctors (or at least medical residents) are required to work. But because all of today’s doctors went through residencies that required long hours, it is difficult to convince them there is anything wrong with the system. I noted that the New ...
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• FDA Should Make Drug Efficacy And Safety Information More Accessible To Patients

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 112
  Package Inserts Prepared By Drug Companies Which Exagerrate Benefits And Downplay Risks Need To Be Addressed (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) In the October 21, 2009 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) there is a Perspective piece, “Lost in ...
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• The RV144 HIV Vaccine trial results are out! Onwards and upwards chaps...

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 534
  Yesterday saw the release of the paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine containing the hotly awaited data concerning the HIV vaccine trial that took place in Thailand. There was already some discussion of the initial results, which were reported in September and discussed by Colin and Martin . ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unbound Medicines Medline mobile Web site on Sprints Android HTC Hero

  
  WirelessDoc — Authority: 427
  OK, so I said portrait when I meant landscape. This demo shows how you can use the Unbound Medicines mobile site for Medline to do a quick, filtered journal article search on the Android platform. In this case, I followed the link to the NEJM Web site, logged onto my account, and then view the abstract as well as ...
  3 weeks ago

• A quote I won’t soon forget

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 519
  Marcia Angell MD is a well-known, respected physician, long-time editor of NEJM. So it was a bit of a shock today when Amy Romano, blogger for Lamaze International , sent me this quote: It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of ...
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• Doctors on Coverage — Physicians’ Views on a New Public Insurance Option and Medicare Expansion

  
  Politics or Poppycock — Authority: 124
  The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINEPosted by NEJM • September 14th, 2009Salomeh Keyhani, M.D., M.P.H., and Alex Federman, M.D., M.P.H.In the past few months, a key point of contention in the health care reform debate has been whether a public health insurance option should be included in the final legislation. ...
  7 weeks ago

• IV heroin – I predict a RIOTT

  
  Northern Doctor's Antidote — Authority: 91
  Image: Pete Chapman under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License There is almost a sad inevitability about the discussion in the media around the issue of giving heroin to heroin users. When it come to heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) it is inevitable that any reasonable discussion will be drowned out by ...
  7 weeks ago

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