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Featured article: Newer is not always better

© J Rankin et al 2016

As medicines advance, new drugs are constantly being developed. In the treatment of pulmonary emboli, the effectiveness of new drugs compared to older ones remains unclear and as this case shows, perhaps newer is not always better.

In this report, a woman with multiple pulmonary emboli failed to respond to several novel anticoagulants but was successfully treated when switched to warfarin, an older anticoagulant.

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1. CASE REPORT

   A rare case of a double phytobezoar causing gastric and jejunum obstruction in an adult man: a case report

   S. Occhionorelli, M. Zese, S. Targa, L. Cappellari, R. Stano and G. Vasquez

   Published on: 15 December 2016
2. CASE REPORT

   Khat – a new precipitating factor for reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: a case report

   Harith Baharith and Amy Zarrin

   Published on: 15 December 2016
3. CASE REPORT

   First report on treating spontaneous infectious spondylodiscitis of lumbar spine with posterior debridement, posterior instrumentation and an injectable calcium sulfate/hydroxyapatite composite eluting gentamicin: a case report

   Richard Bostelmann, Hans Jakob Steiger and Armin O. Scholz

   Published on: 12 December 2016
4. CASE REPORT

   Fetal malformation in maternal toxoplasma and rubella co-infection in Cameroon: a case report

   Andreas Ateke Njoh, Sarah Namondo Njoh and Messang Blandine Abizou

   Published on: 3 December 2016
5. CASE REPORT

   Follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting as solitary liver metastasis: a case report

   Azhar J. Battoo, Zubaida Rasool, Zahoor A. Sheikh and Altaf G. Haji

   Published on: 3 December 2016

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About the Editor

Prof Michael Kidd AM, Editor-in-Chief

Prof Kidd is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University in Australia. He is president of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Case Reports, the world's first PubMed-listed journal devoted to publishing case reports from all medical disciplines.

"In the era of evidence-based practice, we need practice-based evidence. The basis of this evidence is the detailed information from the case reports of individual people which informs both our clinical research and our daily clinical care. Each case report published in this journal adds valuable new information to our medical knowledge."