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Each year, the editors of NEJM Journal Watch General Medicine choose the year's most important thematic areas in clinical research. We try to strike a balance among relevance to primary care, recognition of landmark studies, and acknowledgment of media publicity and public awareness. Some of our stories emerge from one important study, and others come from several studies on a single topic. The order of these stories is not intended to reflect their relative importance. All citations refer to 2014, unless otherwise noted. Readers might wonder why the Ebola epidemic — arguably the biggest medical story of the year — isn't included among our topics for the 2014 Year-in-Review feature. Our editors decided to pass on an Ebola review for two rea…