“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 ...

A 19-year-old woman with a history of depression and anxiety symptoms was admitted to the hospital because of seizure, ...

Cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma (SCC) is primarily caused by oncogenesis mediated by ultraviolet radiation, and β-human papillomavirus (β-HPV) is believed to be a mere facilitator that is ...

This Double Take video explores the link between certain strains of human papillomavirus and cancer and reviews the evidence behind the HPV vaccine, as well as who should receive it and when.

A 71-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus presented to the ophthalmology clinic for an annual screening examination for hydroxychloroquine-related toxic effects. She reported no vision ...

After a year of clinical rotations in which a medical student learns to face death up close, her experience on a silent meditation retreat provides her with new perspective on death and life.

Children were recently discovered to have been exposed to high levels of lead in Milwaukee schools — the latest episode in an ongoing toxic pandemic. This time, no help was forthcoming from the CDC.

Real-world data could help advance disease prevention and treatment, enhance quality of care, and empower patients to improve their health. But various challenges continue to impede their utilization.

Audio Interview from the New England Journal of Medicine — Interview with Katie Watson on the interaction of abortion laws with advance-directive and end-of-life laws.

We offered mitochondrial donation (by pronuclear transfer) or preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) to a series of women with pathogenic mtDNA variants who sought to reduce the transmission of ...