NEJM This Week

NEJM This Week — June 4, 2026

June 3, 2026·26 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

This week, we discuss left atrial appendage closure for atrial fibrillation, oxygen strategies in respiratory failure, an all-oral treatment for acute myeloid leukemia, CAR T-cell therapy enabling kidney transplantation, and a case of a neuroepithelial tumor that developed after gene therapy. We review childhood vaccine hesitancy, follow a complex diagnostic case, and examine Perspectives on corporatization in medicine, famine and war, and the future of health care systems. Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 394, No. 21.

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