Despite their limited experience, medical students and residents are often sought out for health advice by family and friends. In an inequitable health system, these consults may seem essential.

A new Massachusetts law may be the most far-reaching U.S. state legislation aimed at curtailing the influence of private equity in health care. It could serve as a model for other jurisdictions.

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 author describes the scientific foundations of a clinical trial of a first-in-class small-molecule estrogen receptor degrader to treat patients with metastatic breast cancer.

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.

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.