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Interesting Articles: A Weekly Review of the Big Five Medical Journals

Posted on September 07, 2008

This is a collection of articles I have found interesting in the weekly editions of the big five medical journals: NEJM, JAMA, Annals, Lancet and BMJ (a few more journals are included occasionally). The review is a weekly feature of Clinical Cases and Images - Blog. Please see the end of the post for a suggested time-efficient way to stay up-to-date with the medical literature.------------------Ezetimibe and Cancer An Uncertain Association10.1056/NEJMe0807200An excess of incident cancers was observed in the simvastatin ezetimibe group, with 105 in that group as compared with 70 in the ...

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