The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent progress in some areas but raise concerns about transparency, internal consistency, practical implementation, and ignoring of key scientific evidence ...

After a physician pronounces his 15-year-old patient dead over the phone, he respects her parents’ silence, though it leaves him isolated in his grief and craving some form of closure.

Two phase 3, randomized trials of inhaled treprostinil for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) were conducted on the basis of preclinical and clinical evidence of an antifibrotic mechanism.

Blood transfusion before arrival at a hospital reduces mortality from traumatic hemorrhage and shock. Whether transfusion with whole blood is more beneficial than transfusion with blood components ...

A virtual consultation was held on May 2 with medical specialists from South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Holland to discuss the potential link to two recent fatalities associated with the same ...

Wheezing illnesses are a leading cause of hospitalization for preschool-age children and are frequently treated with antibiotics. Observational studies have shown more frequent isolation of three ...

Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are predominantly nonintegrating, but rare genomic integration events have been associated with oncogenesis in neonatal murine models. Here we ...

In this first episode of a two-part Double Take miniseries on cardiovascular risk factors from the New England Journal of Medicine, five key drivers of cardiovascular disease are reviewed. The video ...

A 50-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of vaginal bleeding and anemia. She had a history of fibroids and 1 ...

A new pilot Medicaid program — GENEROUS — combines centralized pharmaceutical-coverage negotiations with most-favored-nation pricing in an effort to lower drug costs, but it has some limitations.

This Sounding Board announces a new FDA policy that the default requirement for FDA approvals will be one robust pivotal trial plus confirmatory evidence, rather than two trials.