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

Audio Interview from the New England Journal of Medicine — Interview with Tom Frieden on the role of the CDC and current threats to the U.S. public health infrastructure.

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.

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 ...

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.

“Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Understanding today’s corporatization of U.S. health care requires seeing it from a historical perspective, as a process that began with a change in the business model of care delivery in the 1920s.