NEJM This Week - June 29, 2017




NEJM This Week show

Summary: Featuring articles on air pollution and mortality in the Medicare population, electrical direct current vs. escitalopram for depression, levothyroxine in older adults with subclinical hypothyroidism, and antibiotics for skin abscess; review articles on subclinical hypothyroidism and on the irritable bowel syndrome; a case report of a man with weight loss, confusion, and skin lesions; and Perspective articles on prospects for health care reform in the U.S. Senate, on FDA approval of valbenazine for tardive dyskinesia, on machine learning and prediction in medicine, and on decision aids and elective joint replacement.