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The FDA has begun soliciting feedback to inform the next version of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. User fees remain ...
The benefits of women’s health research haven’t been limited to women. But actions by the Trump administration threaten to dismantle the hard-won progress in this area.
An 83-year-old man presented with fatigue, weight loss, and postural hypotension. Computed tomography of the abdomen revealed marked enlargement of both adrenal glands, and a diagnosis of primary a ...
Current international clinical practice guidelines recommend complete revascularization for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with multivessel coronary artery disease ...
A man from rural India presented with redness and blurry vision in one eye. Examination was notable for panuveitis and a live worm in the posterior segment; the worm was removed in a pars plana vit ...
A 28-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of severe hypoxemia and right heart failure that had been caused by rapidly progressive pulmonary hypertension. A diagnosis was made.
An industry-supported center claims that it costs companies $2.6 billion to develop a new drug. But we need a broader-based and more transparent reckoning of research-and-development costs to infor ...
The rising tide of chronic kidney disease among patients with type 2 diabetes continues to challenge clinicians and health systems worldwide.1 Advances have been made in the management of chronic k ...
A 72-year-old woman with a 30-year history of paraplegia was referred to the urology clinic for treatment of a bladder stone. CT of the abdomen revealed a large bladder stone with a tree ring ...
The author describes the scientific foundations of a clinical trial of a first-in-class small-molecule estrogen receptor degrader to treat patients with metastatic breast cancer.
Thinking of “culture” as a process in which tensions between social values are resolved, rather than as a fixed state, may help U.S. health care leaders envision an approach to transforming ...
A 55-year-old man in the ICU had a sudden-onset vesicular rash appear across his trunk and arms. On examination, he was febrile and had clear vesicles resembling water droplets across his torso (sh ...