A 43-year-old woman with bipolar disorder and advanced HIV infection was admitted to this hospital because of depressed mood, ...

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

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; ...

New models integrating clinic-based care with community-based services for people with substance use disorder could reduce the time to stable remission and support recovery.

More than 95% of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension are women of childbearing age with obesity. 4 Men are seldom affected, for unknown reasons. Even among women with obesity the ...

A 22-year-old woman presented with a 3-month history of bumps on the right ventral surface of her tongue. On physical examination, the bumps were observed to be pink papillomatous lesions measuring 3 ...

The financial assistance policies of some U.S. hospitals now define medical necessity much more restrictively than it has conventionally been understood, as covering only services that are urgently ...

Explore this issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 392 No. 21).

In a 21-year-old woman who presented with a 7-day history of sore throat and cough, a chest radiograph showed two hemivertebrae at the ninth thoracic vertebral body.

Lawmakers and regulators have grown alarmed about vertical integration and the role of “middlemen” in the U.S. health care system. Yet pharmaceutical wholesalers have largely evaded public scrutiny.

Inadequate payment is just one of many factors that negatively affect daily practice and contribute to burnout among primary care physicians. Also problematic are growing piles of nonclinical tasks.