What are the challenges in developing an HIV vaccine? What strategies do we need to solve maternal/fetal health issues today? How can breast cancer patients be diagnosed and treated more effectively? How can we insure that advances in cardiology make the patient’s life better? Prominent experts gathered in Boston on June 22 to discuss these… Read More…
In January, you voted for an article documenting the beginning of ether anesthesia, and in February, for the first description of platelets. This month we’re asking you to consider five articles from 1930-1959 and tell us which you think is most important. In 1948, Sidney Farber reported promising results in treatment of early childhood leukemia…. Read More…
As part of the NEJM 200th anniversary celebration, each month we will present a selection of five articles from a period in NEJM history and ask you to choose which one you think is the most important. At year’s end, we’ll post the winning articles from each period and let you choose the most important… Read More…
Over 200 years, the New England Journal of Medicine has published early descriptions of disease, groundbreaking new treatments for particular conditions, and the first steps toward significant changes in how physicians care for patients. The 200th anniversary website has an interactive timeline that allows you to search and rediscover the progress of centuries past. Each… Read More…
