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| This monthly update is designed to keep you informed about anniversary content and events. We’ll highlight interesting items and let you know what is coming soon. Features currently on the 200th anniversary website include: | |
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| | READ THE ANNIVERSARY ARTICLES
Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been a major cause of human disease for centuries. In the latest article in our anniversary review series, Drs. Paul Farmer and Salmaan Keshavjee discuss the emergence of active therapy for TB and the subsequent emergence and dissemination of multi-drug resistant strains (MDR-TB). Today, barely 0.5% of newly diagnosed MDR-TB cases worldwide receive treatment considered standard of care in the United States. Those who have not received appropriate treatment continue to fuel a global pandemic that now includes strains resistant to most — and by some accounts, all — classes of drugs tested. Failure to manage TB properly puts us all at risk, and the authors elucidate the reasons for the inadequate response to drug-resistant tuberculosis by examining the recent history of tuberculosis policy. Read the article now on NEJM.org, and browse past articles in the NEJM 200th anniversary series on the anniversary website. On October 4th, look for Dr. Kenneth Polonsky’s review on diabetes.
In a Perspective article this week, Harvard medical historians Greene, Jones and Podolsky write that an examination of the history of therapeutic practice can do more than simply chart our progress over the past two centuries. It can also demonstrate how change occurs in medicine, revealing what has been gained and what opportunities have been lost along the way. Read the Perspective article now. | |
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| | EXPLORE CLASSIC IMAGES
An 80-year-old man with a 30-year history of gout was referred to the rheumatology clinic for further treatment. He had received colchicine and urate-lowering drugs intermittently over the previous several years. Explore this and other classic images on the Images Physicians Should Know page on the 200th anniversary site. | |
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| WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING?
What do you think the major developments of the next decade will be? A highly effective HIV vaccine? An effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease? An effective and well-tolerated weight-loss drug? At the end of our Dialogues in Medicine symposium in June, Dr. Eugene Braunwald said he thought the future of cardiology was a poly-pill. Or, maybe we’ll be treating cancer on the basis of genetics of the tumor by 2020. What do you think? Make your prediction now on the 200th site.
Next month, we’ll have a run off of all of the winners of the monthly voting for the most important article. Stay tuned to vote, and learn what article wins the title, “the most important article in NEJM history.” | |
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| | TAKE THE HISTORICAL IMAGE CHALLENGE
How was this cervical abscess treated in an 1895 article? Take the latest Image Challenge and share it with friends and colleagues. Look for previous challenges on the same page. We’ll publish new challenges each week. | |
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| WHAT LESSONS HAVE PATIENTS TAUGHT YOU?
As physicians, we learn new lessons everyday — from our superiors, from mentors, from nurses. Some of the most surprising lessons are those learned from our patients. Is there a patient who stands out in your memory as having taught you something important? Share your story now. | |
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