Nature Reviews Key Advances in Medicine 2010

This eBook contains 44 essays written by world-renowned clinical researchers, working across eight medical specialties. The authors were commissioned by the Nature Reviews editors to highlight the key advances made in medical research in 2010.

Chapter 1: Cardiology

Atrial fibrillation (Stuart J. Connolly); Acute coronary syndromes (Keith A.A. Fox); Atherosclerosis (Steven E. Nissen); Heart failure (Mihai Gheorghiade and Andrew Ambrosy); Hypertension (Suzanne Oparil); Valvular disease (Philippe Pibarot)

Chapter 2 Clinical Oncology

Hematology (Vincent T. DeVita Jr and George P. Canellos); Breast cancer (Michaela J. Higgins and José Baselga); Lung cancer (Christine M. Lovly and David P. Carbone); GI cancers (Manish R. Sharma and Richard L. Schilsky); Head and neck cancer (Bruce E. Brockstein and Everett E. Vokes)

Chapter 3: Endocrinology

Thyroid cancer (Francesca Carlomagno and Massimo Santoro); Type 2 diabetes mellitus (John B. Buse); Obesity (Suzanne M. Wright and Louis J. Aronne); Pituitary tumors (Maria Gueorguiev and Ashley B. Grossman); Vitamin D deficiency (Michael F. Holick)

Chapter 4: Gastroenterology & Hepatology Clostridium difficile infection (Dale N. Gerding and Stuart Johnson); Hepatitis (Sandra Ciesek and Michael P. Manns); Pancreatic cancer (Eithne Costello and John P. Neoptolemos); GERD (Arne Kandulski and Peter Malfertheiner); IBD (Bénédicte De Vroey and Jean-Frédéric Colombel); IBS (Alexander C. Ford and Nicholas J. Talley)

Chapter 5: Nephrology

Predialysis chronic kidney disease (Juan Jesús Carrero and Peter Stenvinkel); End-stage renal disease, dialysis (Bengt Lindholm and Simon Davies); End-stage renal disease, transplantation (Ron Shapiro); Acute kidney injury (Sean M. Bagshaw and Ron Wald); Diabetic nephropathy (Stephen P. Gray & Mark E. Cooper); Hypertension (Luis Ruilope)

Chapter 6: Neurology

Dementia (Kaj Blennow); Headache (Richard B. Lipton); Stroke (Bruce Ovbiagele); Movement disorders (Marie Vidailhet); Epilepsy (John S. Duncan); Multiple sclerosis (Massimo Filippi)

Chapter 7: Rheumatology

Rheumatoid arthritis (Clemens Scheinecker and Josef S. Smolen); Osteoarthritis (David T. Felson); Gout (Nicola Dalbeth); Spondyloarthropathies (Joachim Sieper); Osteoporosis (Elaine Dennison and Cyrus Cooper); Autoinflammation (Michael J. Ombrello and Daniel L. Kastner)

Chapter 8: Urology

Prostate cancer (Umberto Capitanio and Nazareno Suardi); Kidney cancer (Karim Bensalah and Jean-Jacques Patard); Urinary incontinence (Jean-Nicolas Cornu and Francois Haab); Stones (Hans-Goran Tiselius)