{"id":115,"date":"2007-02-12T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T10:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/02\/12\/nejm-8-feb-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T10:57:30","slug":"nejm-8-feb-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/02\/12\/nejm-8-feb-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"NEJM  8 Feb 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/356\/6\/551\">Polycystic ovary syndrome<\/a><strong> <\/strong>is a frustrating diagnosis for doctors and patients, as a <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/297\/5\/509\">case discussion<\/a> in this week\u2019s <em>JAMA <\/em>illustrates: if you don\u2019t want a pregnancy, go on the pill and try to lose some weight. But if you do want a <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/356\/6\/551\">baby, <\/a>should you take <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/356\/6\/551\">metformin, clomifene or both<\/a>?<!--more--><strong> <\/strong>Just take some clomifene, is the message of this three-way randomised <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/356\/6\/551\">study<\/a>, which did not include a placebo-only arm: metformin may help you ovulate, but it will not help you get a successful pregnancy, say the authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>For several years now, the journals (especially the New England) have been full of papers about new <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/356\/6\/580\">monoclonal antibodies<\/a> to various bits of various inflammatory pathways. Some of these have proved their value in treating chronic inflammatory diseases of unknown aetiology, such as Crohn\u2019s disease or rheumatoid arthritis, but worrying short- and long-term hazards have also emerged. <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/356\/6\/580\">Psoriasis <\/a>is another example: it can be disabling and disfiguring, and this trial of blocking <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/356\/6\/580\">interleukin-12\/13<\/a><strong> <\/strong>clears it up by 75% in most<strong> <\/strong>people<strong> <\/strong>after just a dose or two<strong>. <\/strong>But if in time it allows some nasty dormant virus to become active, or carries a risk of some rare cancer, the price may prove to have been too high.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>The classic \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/356\/6\/601\">incidentaloma<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polycystic ovary syndrome is a frustrating diagnosis for doctors and patients, as a case discussion in this week\u2019s JAMA illustrates: if you don\u2019t want a pregnancy, go on the pill and try to lose some weight. But if you do want a baby, should you take metformin, clomifene or both? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/02\/12\/nejm-8-feb-2007\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}