In The Weeklies

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

New England Journal of Medicine
30 September 2004
The Images in Clinical Medicine section this week includes a piece about Communicating Hydrocephalus by Newman and Segal, which includes a free PowerPoint download of the image for teaching use.

Lancet
02 October 2004
This week’s issue includes a Talking Points piece about variant CJD and one about dementia-related clinical drug trials. It also includes the commentary, Testing for prions: A novel protocol for vCJD prevalence studies, by Glatzel.

Nature
30 September 2004
This week’s issue includes a letter on the topic of Small modulation of ongoing cortical dynamics by sensory input during natural vision by Fiser.