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Researchers are issuing more dire warnings about the growing threat of multi-drug-resistant gonorrhea in the US, according to a new paper published the New England Journal of Medicine.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) As the debate about health care in the United States rages, four insightful articles in the March 2011 issue of the American Journal of Medicine strive to add reasoned arguments and empirical research findings to the dialog.

(Yale University) Clinicians have often referred to ultrasound technology as the "stethoscope of the future," predicting that as the equipment shrinks in size, it will one day be as common at the bedside as that trusty tool around every physician's neck.

According to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine, that day has arrived.

(University of Colorado Denver) A study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows more than half of patients with a specific kind of lung cancer are responding positively to a treatment that targets the gene that drives their cancer.

People with fibromyalgia may benefit from practicing tai chi, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Fibromyalgia is a disorder characterized by muscle pain, fatigue, and other symptoms. People with fibromyalgia have chronic widespread pain, as well as "tender points" on areas of the body, which hurt when slight pressure is applied.

Vaccination against rotavirus appears to be highly effective in reducing death and serious gastrointestinal disease among young children in developing countries, according to two reports in the Jan. 28 New England Journal of Medicine.