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 ...

Amitabh Chandra is a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, ...

Syphilis is one of the oldest known diseases. Approximately 209,000 cases were reported in the United States in 2023 — the highest number of reported cases since 1950 — including nearly 4000 ...

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 ...

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

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

China has recently emerged as an important player in new drug development — a field traditionally dominated by the United States and Europe. This shift has implications for global access to new ...

Nicholas Bagley is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal.

To the Editor: In their article on the ESSENCE trial, Sanyal and colleagues (June 5 issue) 1 report significantly better resolution of metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and ...

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