Synopsis
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Audio interview RSS feed. NEJM (http://www.nejm.org) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.
Episodes
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Timothy Jost on a lawsuit brought by the House of Representatives over the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing-reduction program.
06/01/2016 Duration: 09minProf. Timothy Jost is a professor of law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. T.S. Jost. The House and the ACA - A Lawsuit over Cost-Sharing Reductions. N Engl J Med 2016;374:5-7.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Peter Neumann on the use of various new value-based frameworks for assessing drugs and drug prices.
30/12/2015 Duration: 08minDr. Peter Neumann is director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at Tufts Medical Center. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. P.J. Neumann and J.T. Cohen. Measuring the Value of Prescription Drugs. N Engl J Med 2015;373:2595-7. R.C. Young. Value-Based Cancer Care. N Engl J Med 2015;373:2593-5.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michele Heisler on attacks on physicians and health care facilities in Syria and the response from the international community.
23/12/2015 Duration: 11minDr. Michele Heisler is a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and a board member at Physicians for Human Rights. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M. Heisler, E. Baker, and D. McKay. Attacks on Health Care in Syria - Normalizing Violations of Medical Neutrality? N Engl J Med 2015;373:2489-91.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Charlotte Haug on the growing number of article retractions attributable to peer-review fraud.
16/12/2015 Duration: 07minDr. Charlotte Haug is an international correspondent for the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. C.J. Haug. Peer-Review Fraud - Hacking the Scientific Publication Process. N Engl J Med 2015;373:2393-5.
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Alexander Capron on proposed changes to regulations governing human-subjects research.
09/12/2015 Duration: 16minProf. Alexander Capron is a professor of law and medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. K.L. Hudson and F.S. Collins. Bringing the Common Rule into the 21st Century. N Engl J Med 2015;373:2293-6. E.J. Emanuel. Reform of Clinical Research Regulations, Finally. N Engl J Med 2015;373:2296-9.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Anthony Fauci on the ways in which new evidence has improved our strategies for treating and preventing HIV infection.
02/12/2015 Duration: 09minDr. Anthony Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A.S. Fauci and H.D. Marston. Ending the HIV-AIDS Pandemic - Follow the Science. N Engl J Med 2015;373:2197-9.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. David Courtwright on a 19th-century epidemic of opiate addiction and its lessons for the current crisis.
25/11/2015 Duration: 07minDr. David Courtwright is a professor of history at the University of North Florida. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. D.T. Courtwright. History of Medicine: Preventing and Treating Narcotic Addiction - A Century of Federal Drug Control. N Engl J Med 2015;373:2095-7.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Paul Ginsburg on how Medicare can improve care delivery and control spending going forward.
18/11/2015 Duration: 09minDr. Paul Ginsburg is a professor of the practice of health policy and management at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. P.B. Ginsburg and A.M. Rivlin. Challenges for Medicare at 50. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1993-5.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael Lauer on peer review of NIH grant applications and how it can be improved.
11/11/2015 Duration: 11minDr. Michael Lauer is deputy director for extramural research at the National Institutes of Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M.S. Lauer and R. Nakamura. Reviewing Peer Review at the NIH. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1893-5.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan on trends in the numbers of U.S. medical school graduates and GME positions.
04/11/2015 Duration: 06minDr. Fitzhugh Mullan is a professor of medicine and health policy and of pediatrics at George Washington University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. F. Mullan, E. Salsberg, and K. Weider. Why a GME Squeeze Is Unlikely. N Engl J Med. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1511707.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. H. Gilbert Welch on trends in the incidence of metastatic cancers and their implications for both screening and our understanding of cancer.
28/10/2015 Duration: 06minDr. H. Gilbert Welch is a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. H.G. Welch, D.H. Gorski, and P.C. Albertsen. Trends in Metastatic Breast and Prostate Cancer - Lessons in Cancer Dynamics. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1685-7.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Kevin Schulman on the recent approval of two PCSK9 inhibitors and what their prices could mean for insurance premiums.
21/10/2015 Duration: 09minDr. Kevin Schulman is a professor of medicine and of business administration at Duke University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. K.A. Schulman, S. Balu, and S.D. Reed. Specialty Pharmaceuticals for Hyperlipidemia - Impact on Insurance Premiums. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1591-3. B.M. Everett, R.J. Smith, and W.R. Hiatt. Reducing LDL with PCSK9 Inhibitors - The Clinical Benefit of Lipid Drugs. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1588-91.
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NEJM Interview: Drs. Allan Goroll and Ateev Mehrotra on whether the annual physical should be retained, eliminated, or modified for 21st-century realities.
14/10/2015 Duration: 15minDr. Allan Goroll is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Ateev Mehrotra is an associate professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A.H. Goroll. Toward Trusting Therapeutic Relationships - In Favor of the Annual Physical. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1487-9. A. Mehrotra and A. Prochazka. Improving Value in Health Care - Against the Annual Physical. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1485-7.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. David Urbach on a plan to concentrate certain surgical procedures among the physicians and hospitals that perform the most of them.
07/10/2015 Duration: 09minDr. David Urbach is a professor of Surgery and of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. D.R. Urbach. Pledging to Eliminate Low-Volume Surgery. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1388-90.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael Fiore on the potential for regulation of nicotine levels in cigarettes to help smokers quit.
30/09/2015 Duration: 09minDr. Michael Fiore is director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M. Fiore and T. Baker. Reduced-Nicotine Cigarettes - A Promising Regulatory Pathway. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1289-91.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jonathan Oberlander on the outlook for Medicare’s new physician payment system.
23/09/2015 Duration: 08minDr. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Oberlander and M.J. Laugesen. Leap of Faith - Medicare’s New Physician Payment System. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1185-7. M.B. Rosenthal. Physician Payment after the SGR - The New Meritocracy. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1187-9.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Christopher Robertson on the FDA’s new draft guidelines on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
16/09/2015 Duration: 07minDr. Christopher Robertson is a professor at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. C.T. Robertson. New DTCA Guidance - Enough to Empower Consumers? N Engl J Med 2015;373:1085-7. J.A. Greene and E.S. Watkins. The Vernacular of Risk - Rethinking Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals. N Engl J Med 2015;373:1087-9.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Hermes Taylor-Weiner on the regulation of stem-cell clinics offering unproven therapies.
09/09/2015 Duration: 05minDr. Hermes Taylor-Weiner is a Whitaker Scholar at the Karolinska Institute who recently finished his graduate work at the University of California, San Diego. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. H. Taylor-Weiner and J. Graff Zivin. Medicine’s Wild West - Unlicensed Stem-Cell Clinics in the United States. N Engl J Med 2015;373:985-7.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Georgina Peacock on improvements in care and access to services for people with disabilities and where more work is needed.
02/09/2015 Duration: 07minDr. Georgina Peacock is director of the Division of Human Development and Disabilities at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. G. Peacock, L.I. Iezzoni, and T.R. Harkin. Health Care for Americans with Disabilities - 25 Years after the ADA. N Engl J Med 2015;373:892-3.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michelle Mello on a new California law that eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccination mandates.
26/08/2015 Duration: 06minDr. Michelle Mello is a professor of law and of health research and policy at Stanford University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M.M. Mello, D.M. Studdert, and W.E. Parmet. Shifting Vaccination Politics - The End of Personal-Belief Exemptions in California. N Engl J Med 2015;373:785-7.