Children were recently discovered to have been exposed to high levels of lead in Milwaukee schools — the latest episode in an ongoing toxic pandemic. This time, no help was forthcoming from the CDC.

Audio Interview from the New England Journal of Medicine — Interview with Arthur Robin Williams on alcohol consumption in the United States and the effects of alcohol taxes.

Real-world data could help advance disease prevention and treatment, enhance quality of care, and empower patients to improve their health. But various challenges continue to impede their utilization.

Audio Interview from the New England Journal of Medicine — Interview with Peter Marks on the disruption of traditional approaches to establishing Covid-19 vaccine policy in the United States.

The author describes pronuclear transfer, a type of mitochondrial donation, which was made available to women with mitochondrial DNA disease in a reproductive care pathway implemented in Newcastle, ...

In vitro fertilization is clearly a successful technology, although it remains experimental; the safety and efficacy of new methods and reagents can be difficult to assess. And “traditional ...

Pathogenic variants in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are a common cause of severe, often fatal, inherited metabolic disease. A reproductive care pathway was implemented to provide women carrying pathog ...

We report a method for the recovery of hearts for transplantation from deceased donors after circulatory death that obviates the need for thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion or ex situ ...

When someone is declared brain-dead during pregnancy, state laws regarding abortion, advance directives, and end-of-life care may all come into play. What should the deciding factors be?

An 86-year-old woman with a complex history that included multinodular goiter presented with neck swelling and dysphagia. A tender submandibular mass was present. A diagnosis was made.

In 15 patients with primary aldosteronism, baxdrostat (a second-generation, nonimidazole aldosterone synthase inhibitor) resolved or reduced the severity of hypertension, excessive aldosterone ...

A 60-year-old man with hypertension and bipolar disorder was incidentally found to have small cysts on his kidneys during MRI of the abdomen.