NEJM This Week: Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 361, No. 13.

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This summary covers the issue of September 24, 2009. Featured are articles on daunorubicin for acute myeloid leukemia in older patients, anthracycline dose intensification in AML, comparative efficacy of inactivated and live attenuated influenza vaccines, a double-blind, delayed-start trial of rasagiline in Parkinson's disease, the delayed-start study design, interferon-alpha; and the treatment of leukemia; a review article on renal failure in cirrhosis; a case report of a man with recurrent transitional-cell carcinoma of the ureter; and Perspective articles on doctors as the key to health care reform, on the high cost of health care in the United States, and on incorporating comparative-effectiveness information into FDA labeling.