In The Weeklies

Here are some relevant highlights from this week’s major scientific and medical weeklies:

Journal of the American Medical Association
10 November 2004
The current issue includes the paper: Kristine Yaffe et al. The Metabolic Syndrome, Inflammation, and Risk of Cognitive Decline. JAMA. 2004; 292: 2237-2242.

New England Journal of Medicine
11 November 2004
This week’s issue includes a book review of an edited book by Nalin Gupta, Anuradha Banerjee, and Daphne Haas-Kogan: Pediatric CNS Tumors.

Lancet
13 November 2004
This week’s issue includes the research paper The United Kingdom Infantile Spasms Study comparing vigabatrin with prednisolone or tetracosactide at 14 days: A multicentre, randomised controlled trial by Andrew L Lux and colleagues.

Science
12 November 2004
This week’s issue includes several news reports from the recent Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.