Blood-pressure reduction is the only proven treatment to prevent stroke. Whether a single pill that combines three antihypertensive drugs at low doses, in addition to standard antihypertensive ...

Post-thrombotic syndrome is common after deep-vein thrombosis and can cause severe symptoms involving the limbs that impair patients’ activity and quality of life. Endovascular therapy can ...

The Trump administration’s wide-ranging actions to dismantle U.S. environmental regulations will cause long-lasting health harms, disproportionately affecting low-income and other vulnerable groups.

Explore this issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 394 No. 5).

Health worker burnout, exacerbated by Covid-19, is not only about long hours. It’s about the fundamental disconnect between health workers and the mission to serve that motivates them.

A 16-year-old girl presented with 1 month of ankle pain and 11 days of fever. Radiographs showed an ill-defined, radiolucent distal tibial lesion; on MRI, the lesion was hypointense and surrounded by ...

The parents of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who was in a persistent vegetative state, objected to her husband's decision to discontinue artificial nutrition, and a protracted legal battle ensued.

Owing to the fact that most thromboembolic complications that are attributed to atrial fibrillation originate in the left atrial appendage, 1 therapies targeting the anatomical structure that might ...

A 21-year-old woman presented with abdominal pain and constipation and was found to have hypertension with renal failure. Imaging showed an obstructive mass.

An 18-year-old man presented to the emergency department with generalized tonic–clonic seizures. MRI of the head showed numerous well-defined cystic lesions in the brain that were consistent with ...

A 27-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of joint pain, fever, sore throat, and a nonpruritic rash that worsened during fever. Laboratory tests showed an elevated ESR and elevated ...

It is regrettable that pulmonary embolism as a discrete cause of sudden cardiac arrest in athletes is not addressed by Lampert and Harmon’s recent review (Jan. 15 issue).1 In an ...