Tobacco use kills more than 7 million people worldwide each year, including 1.3 million who die from the effects of exposure to secondhand smoke.1 As a major contributor to cancer, cardiovascular ...

The planned implementation of Medicaid work requirements provides an opportunity to obtain longitudinal data to guide Medicaid policy, including data on health consequences for people who lose ...

Patients benefit from antiplatelet therapy after coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) for an acute coronary syndrome.

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information by sharing relevant background and reasoning ...

To the Editor: The BROADWAY trial by Nicholls and colleagues (July 3 issue) 1 was a pivotal evaluation of an intriguing agent. However, I am concerned about the use of placebo in patients with ...

A 54-year-old woman with infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the right breast treated with locoregional radiation presented with cough, fever, and dyspnea. CT showed fibrotic and ground-glass opacities ...

Controversy persists regarding the appropriate duration of therapy with benzathine penicillin G in persons with early (i.e., primary, secondary, or early latent) syphilis (Treponema pallidum infection ...

Christopher Duggan is the director of the Center for Nutrition at Boston Children’s Hospital, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and a professor in the Departments of Nutrition and ...

Poorly controlled hypertension is a common problem worldwide, particularly in low-resource settings. We conducted an ...

Surgery is the main treatment for early-stage non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), even though recurrence remains common. 1 Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has offered a modest survival benefit, 2 with few ...

Esophageal cancer is a highly lethal disease and the seventh leading cause of cancer-related death. In 2022, there were 511,000 new cases of esophageal cancer and 445,000 deaths from esophageal cancer ...

The landscape for genetically modified organisms is changing, thanks to sharp increases in the amounts and numbers of chemical herbicides applied to GM crops and the classification of two of the most ...