Link to the Show / Show NotesThis summary covers the issue of September 17, 2009. Featured are articles on dabigatran versus warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation, sex hormone-binding globulin and risk of type 2 diabetes in women and men, inhibition of the hedgehog pathway in advanced basal-cell carcinoma, treatment of medulloblastoma with hedgehog pathway inhibitor GDC-0449, and Congress, the FDA, and drug-regulation preemption; a review article on screening for colorectal cancer; a case report of a man with weight loss, odynophagia, and failure to thrive; and Perspective articles on poverty, wealth, and access to pandemic influenza vaccines, on systemwide cost control in health care reform, on insurance industry proposals for regulation and reform, and on health insurance exchanges.

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