NEJM Journal Watch - General Medicine

A network meta-analysis suggests minimal benefits compared with continuous caloric restriction.

We are one step closer to an easily accessible in-home screening option.

More than 60% of patients discharged from intensive care suffered at least one fall, and ≈25% suffered injurious falls.

Lifestyle modifications are not enough to improve the efficacy of antiarrhythmic drugs; catheter ablation is still superior.

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease often describe their symptoms differently than clinicians would.

The FDA has approved this drug for treating patients with heart failure and preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction.

A meta-analysis suggests that H. pylori eradication lowers gastric cancer incidence by about 40%.

Point-of-care ultrasound early in cardiac arrest detected previously unidentified shockable rhythms, but outcomes didn't improve.

Injurious falls were more common in both younger and older adults with dizziness who took this medication.

Patients fared worse after this cost-savings switch.