Digital tobacco-cessation treatments hold great promise. But dedicated efforts will be required to promote access to and ...

Genetic deficiency of otoferlin, a protein critical to synaptic transmission by the sensory hair cells of the ear, causes congenital deafness. Medicines to treat the condition are lacking; ...

AI has the potential to expand the reach of humanitarian aid during crises. Yet there are substantial challenges and risks ...

In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ...

Lawmakers and regulators have grown alarmed about vertical integration and the role of “middlemen” in the U.S. health care system. Yet pharmaceutical wholesalers have largely evaded public scrutiny.

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Having worked at seven hospitals in Gaza since December 2023, an American surgeon finds value in doing whatever is possible to serve a community — and bearing witness to unimaginable human suffering.

This feature about a student with strep throat and an unconfirmed penicillin allergy offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting use of a nonpenicillin antibiotic and the other ...

Public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by mechanisms that are independent of any effects on resources and opportunities.

A 57-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of worsening shortness of breath. Radiography and CT showed perihilar airspace opacities in both lungs, and bloody aliquots of fluid were obtained ...

The evidence for breast cancer screening of women in their 40s is insufficient to support a new public health imperative, given the uncertain benefits and common harms for healthy women.