Idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus is a neurologic disorder characterized by impaired gait, balance, cognition, and ...

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 ...

There is an urgent need for low- and middle-income countries to ensure equitable, affordable, and sustained access to tobacco-cessation medications at scale.

Michael Welsh, Jesús González, and Paul Negulescu have won the 2025 Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for their roles in developing treatments for cystic fibrosis.

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In 2019, seven county correctional facilities (jails) in Massachusetts initiated pilot programs to provide all Food and Drug Administration–approved medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). This ...

A majority of U.S. Republicans support withholding federal funding from “ultraliberal” universities — but maintaining medical research funding. A national campaign could boost advocacy for such a c ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is an immune-mediated platelet disorder caused by antibodies that target complexes of platelet factor 4 (PF4) and heparin. HIT has been characterized as a ...

To the Editor: In their comprehensive review article, Cruz-Jentoft and Volkert (June 12 issue)1 present key determinants and challenges associated with malnutrition in older adults. We wish to expa ...