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Globalization and Health BioMed Central Research Open Access The developing world in The New England Journal of Medicine Bernard Lown*†1 and Amitava Banerjee†2 Address: 1Professor Emeritus, Harvard School of Public Health. Senior Physician, Brigham and Womens Hospital. Founder and Chair, ProCOR, Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation, 21 Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446 USA and 2Senior House Officer, General Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK Email: Bernard Lown* - belown@; Amitava Banerjee - amibanerjee@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 16 March 2006 Received: 17 November 2005 Accepted: 16 March 2006 Globalization and Health2006, 2:3 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-2-3 This article is available from: /content/2/1/3 © 2006Lown and Banerjee; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Rampant disease in poor countries impedes development and contributes to growing North-South disparities; however, leading international medical journals underreport on health research priorities for developing countries. Methods: We examined 416 weekly issues of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) over an eight-year period, January 1997 to December 2004. A total of 8857 a