NEJM Audio Summary: Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 354, No. 2.

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DATE : Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:18:14 -0500
Entered in Database : 2006-01-11 15:18:14
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This summary covers the issue of January 12, 2006. Featured are articles on the causes of illness in returned travelers, benazepril for advanced chronic renal insufficiency, inhaled cyclosporine in lung-transplant recipients, and familial sinus bradycardia and a mutation in the cardiac pacemaker channel; review articles on chronic daily headache and acute lymphoblastic leukemia; a case report of a male lung-transplant recipient with fever, cough, hemoptysis, and abdominal pain; a Sounding Board article on the reform of drug regulation; and Perspective articles on research in the hot zone and bioterrorism -- preparing to fight the next war.