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New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Objective To determine the effect of a user centered clinical decision support tool versus usual care on rates of initiation of buprenorphine in the routine emergency care of individuals with opioid use disorder. Design Pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial (EMBED). Setting 18 emergency department clusters across five healthcare systems in five states representing the north east, south east

If Milton’s blindness had been successfully prevented or treated, would he still have produced the poetry that he did after 1652? The three sonnets that deal specifically with his blindness would not have appeared. Nor would some passages in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes . There is no reason to suppose that he would not have written Paradise Lost , since he had planned some such epic for many

Duncan Alexander Maclean was born in Lochcarron, on the north west coast of Scotland, on 9 September 1939. He attended the local Lochcarron Primary School and Dingwall Academy, before studying at the university in Edinburgh. Duncan trained as a surgeon in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London (at Great Ormond Street). He was appointed as the lone, resident consultant surgeon at the Lewis Hospital in Stornoway

Charles Keith Anderson (“Keith”) was a major figure in local cancer medicine in Leeds and Yorkshire. After a series of junior hospital appointments, he became a member of the department of histology at Leeds General Infirmary. …

Ian Norman McCulloch’s parents, Joseph and Marjorie (née Harris), were both doctors. Having been evacuated to Ayr for part of the second world war, on leaving school in Glasgow Ian had to choose between music …

James Irvine Currie (“Jim”) underperformed at school so needed to take first MB. This was fortunate as it led to his being in the same year group …

Ernest Theodore Roberts (known as Theo), was born in Glasgow. His mother, Janet Pitcairn Hogg, and his father, Theodore Ernest Roberts, a public health physician, had set up the schools’ medical service in Glasgow. They moved to Portsmouth when his father took up the position of medical officer for health for the City of Portsmouth. Theo was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, which was evacuated

Benjamin Jon Tinsley (“Ben”) qualified from Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2010. He then worked in London and Wales and embarked on general surgery training in 2018. He was working as a senior surgical registrar at Morriston Hospital, Swansea. Ben was a talented surgical trainee. His career included general surgery, vascular, colorectal and transplant surgery. He had an exceptionally

Credit: St Jude Children’s Research Hospital Donald Pinkel, who has died at the age of 95, was at the forefront of the revolution that turned childhood leukaemia from an invariably fatal disease in the 1950s to one that can be cured in well over 90% of cases. Antifolate drugs such as methotrexate were used to treat children with leukaemia, and other antimetabolite drugs were discovered, including corticosteroids

Stephen Bradley and colleagues call for action to ensure equitable returns for patients and taxpayers when public healthcare data are shared for commercial research The threats to patient privacy from sharing data have been well publicised. By comparison, the risks of healthcare systems missing out on the gains generated from healthcare data have been largely overlooked. As well as potential benefits

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The largest monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak described so far in non-endemic countries was identified in May 20221-6. Here, shotgun metagenomics allowed the rapid reconstruction and phylogenomic characterization of the first MPXV outbreak genome sequences, showing that this MPXV belongs to clade 3 and that the outbreak most likely has a single origin. Although 2022 MPXV (lineage B.1) clustered with

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Membranes with methane-excluding pores can remove nitrogen and carbon dioxide from natural gas in an energy-efficient and cost-effective way.

Scientists can now check whether a journal website has been cloned before submitting their manuscript.

We need public health innovation from our governments, writes Abraar Karan As a clinician, I rarely see a patient die from covid-19 anymore. Those who end up in the hospital these days have benefited from the immense advances in clinical science that have brought us vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and antivirals, and taught us how best to use these and other existing medications, such as steroids

Over the course of the pandemic, NHS performance against national waiting time targets has repeatedly hit new lows. More recently NHS performance has plateaued, however it’s plateaued at a level that is putting patients at risk. Performance has flatlined at new depths because of fundamental problems within the NHS. These underlying problems that existed pre-pandemic, notably the workforce crisis, have

Morgan mourns the shrinking of the medical administrative workforce in favour of new technology.1 Using speech to text is not new; 20 years ago, my secretary and I used ViaVoice software on a PC network in our department. I checked the text for obvious errors, she re-checked—which saved me when I saw what was expected, not what was interpreted—then formatted the letters for printing. It worked well

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Background Primary prevention of food allergy by early introduction of allergenic foods seems promising. We aimed to determine whether early food introduction or the application of regular skin emollients in infants from a general population reduced the risk of food allergy. Methods This 2 × 2 factorial, cluster-randomised trial was done at Oslo University Hospital and Østfold Hospital Trust, Oslo

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New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.