An experimental thyroid drug reduces cholesterol without the troublesome side effects experienced by some people on statins, according to a study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. An international team of inves...

The Swedish biotech company Karo Bio (Reuters: KARO.ST) announced the publication of results from a clinical phase II trial evaluating the company's liver selective thyroid hormone receptor agonist eprotirome and its ability to furt...

An experimental thyroid drug reduces cholesterol without the troublesome side effects experienced by some people on statins, according to a study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. An international team of inve...

A Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for change in the way researchers and pharmaceutical companies collect and report adverse symptom information in clinical trials submitted to the Food and Drug Adminis...

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, people over 75 who read, play instruments, work puzzles, and take part in discussions are less likely to develop Alzheimer's Disease. Internet use has been added to the list of acti...

Read this report from the website of the New England Journal of Medicine.[# More #] Key graphs: The results from the survey, entitled "Physician Survey: Health Reform's Impact on Physician Supply and Quality of...

A Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for change in the way researchers and pharmaceutical companies collect and report adverse symptom information in clinical trials submitted to the Food and Drug Adminis...

I'm with Marcia Angell, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. The Obama plan for health care "reform", as well as the two versions passed by the House and the Senate, are all devious disasters that do nothing to solve the n...

Let’s put to rest, once and for all, the idea--- or rather, the notion (it’s not even an idea, just a vague impression, based on hearsay) -- that the health reform legislation now under discussion includes no plans for containing...

Physicians treating patients with shock should consider norepinephrine instead of dopamine as a tool for stabilizing blood pressure, according to an editorial in the March 4, 2010, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...

In an editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Howard Brody, professor of family medicine and director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, writes that the ...

Recent research published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that within certain populations in America, the prevalence of HIV-infected people is higher than...

 by Jaime Cunningham In December, NEWSWEEK argued that new signs of life were showing in the AIDS activism movement. Let's hope so. Recent research published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that within certain populatio...

Add one more name to the ever growing list of diseases that have been defeated by stem cell treatments: HIV. That’s right, according to a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine, a stem cell transplant performed in Germ...

Nearly four years ago, just before his controversial metaanalysis of Avandia was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic’s Steve Nissen met with Glaxo execs and - fearing he would be pressured over his eff...

Originally published in Insidermedicine As international travel becomes increasingly commonplace, the clinical problem of jet lag is highlighted in the New England Journal of Medicine. Here are some recommendations for managing je...

A "Perspective" piece in today's New England Journal of Medicine by Peter B. Bach, MD, MAPP, points out that policy makers are relying on hospital ratings from the Dartmouth Atlas that could be misleading. According to Dr... ...

A "Perspective" piece in today's New England Journal of Medicine by Peter B. Bach, MD, MAPP, points out that policy makers are relying on hospital ratings from the Dartmouth Atlas that could be misleading....

If this dude jumps into your bed, you know you're a goner. A strange but touching tail tale from The New England Journal of Medicine.

In a study now being published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Associate Professor Paul Franks of Umeå University in Sweden, in collaboration with researchers in the US, shows how childhood obesity, together with other risk...