NEJM Journal Watch - General Medicine

Starting treatment within 4 days rather than later leads to fewer early recurrent strokes with no significant intracranial hemorrhage signal, according to a comprehensive meta-analysis.

Rapid correction of hyponatremia rarely is associated with osmotic demyelination syndrome, with the greatest risk in extreme cases.

Screening for primary aldosteronism with aldosterone and renin levels is suggested for all patients with hypertension.

Lithium depletion might play a role in developing AD — and lithium repletion might improve cognition.

New recommendations focus on lung ultrasound, antibiotic therapy, antibiotic duration, and when to use systemic corticosteroids.

Patients with sepsis who had hypothermia in the ED had worse outcomes than those who had normal temperatures or fever.

Emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and antibiotic use were all significantly lower.

A retrospective study suggests that most moderately immunocompromised patients hospitalized with pneumonia don't need coverage for resistant organisms.

Data point to higher risk for some cancers and lower risk for others with GLP-1 use.

Patients with cancer reported getting unwanted care more often than did patients with other chronic illness.