Every week, I peruse around fifteen journals, some featuring basic science, others clinical research and patient cases, and still others a mix. As a specialist in blood diseases and cancer, I pay particular attention to those articles reporting advances, and failures, in my field. But I am also drawn to work on aspects of medicine and biology outside my discipline. These studies may overturn conventional thinking and practice, or they may be connected to a personal experience or the plight of a family member. In assembling a list of notable findings in medicine and biology in 2015, I plead guilty to prioritizing those reports that seemed most meaningful based on the above criteria.
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