The FDA has begun soliciting feedback to inform the next version of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. User fees remain ...

A 28-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of severe hypoxemia and right heart failure that had been caused by ...

A small-molecule drug proves its mettle in the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, a disease amenable to intervention at the pre-mRNA level.

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 ...

To prevent the spread of inaccurate information, academic and health care institutions will need to equip scientists and clinicians to engage effectively on nontraditional media platforms.

The need to suppress a patient’s immune system after the transplantation of allogeneic cells is associated with wide-ranging side effects. We report the outcomes of transplantation of ...

Although xenon may have neuroprotective effects, there is no strong evidence that it aids in short-term, high-altitude performance. Success is more likely a result of acclimatization, oxygen suppor ...

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 ...

“Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry toward higher levels of integrated control by consolidated profit-seeking ...

Though infant mortality has continuously been targeted by health policy agendas, policies tend to place it in an individualistic and narrow frame, failing to consider and address its structural ...

Audio Interview from the New England Journal of Medicine — Interview with Nancy Tomes on the century-long transition to a corporate business model in U.S. health care.

A 75-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of dyspnea and hypoxemia. CT of the chest showed a cavitary lesion in the right upper lobe and masses in both lower lobes. A diagnosis was made.