Your NEJM Group Today: Burning Pain in Legs / Aspirin & Cognitive Decline / Gastro. & I.M. Opportunities

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Check out today's top picks from NEJM Group:

NEJM Primary Care/Hospitalist Page: Images in clinical medicine: A 24-year-old woman who had been receiving antiretroviral therapy presented with severe, burning pain in the legs after taking ergotamine for a migraine headache. CT angiography revealed diffuse, symmetric narrowing of the arteries in both legs, a finding consistent with ergotism. See the images via the first link below.

NEJM Journal Watch General Medicine: In a large randomized trial, a 5-year course of aspirin did not lower the incidence of dementia or cognitive decline.

NEJM CareerCenter:

• Gastroenterology: Billings Clinic in Bozeman, Montana, is seeking a gastroenterologist to join its multispecialty group practice.

• Internal medicine: With the support of Bryan Physician Network, Prairie Center Internal Medicine & Nephrology is seeking an internal medicine physician to join its established, collegial team in central Nebraska's Platte River oasis.