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

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; ...

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

The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care: Insight into Corporate Governance — What Motivates Hospitals and Delivery Systems. S. Lipstein . The Risks of Pharmaceutical Tariffs for ...

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 ...

Sotatercept, an activin-signaling inhibitor, reduces morbidity and mortality among patients with long-standing pulmonary ...

In a patient with treatment-resistant ulcerative colitis, CD19 CAR T-cell therapy led to drug-free remission and mucosal healing, suggesting that B-cell targeting may offer a novel therapeutic ...

The painkilling, antipyretic, and antiinflammatory properties of aspirin have been known for centuries. The understanding that aspirin targets cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) (also known as ...

Despite high cancer-related mortality, health systems serving American Indian and Alaska Native populations offer only primary care. The University of Oklahoma is bridging the gap with oncology ser ...

Corporatization represents a deal between medical organizations and investors and presumably benefits those entities. But the key question for society is whether it benefits patients and payers.

Tom Frieden is the president and chief executive officer of Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the ...

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.