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.

Regulations give substantial discretion to individual organizations when it comes to sharing deidentified data and specimens with outside entities. Academic medical centers are practically and ethi ...

After a year of clinical rotations in which a medical student learns to face death up close, her experience on a silent meditation retreat provides her with new perspective on death and life.

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 ...

Children born to women who carry pathogenic variants in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are at risk for a range of clinical syndromes collectively known as mtDNA disease. Mitochondrial donation by pronuc ...

Cardiac allotransplantation is warranted in children with end-stage heart failure or irreparable congenital heart disease. A dearth of organs for transplantation has contributed to long wait-list t ...

A 55-year-old woman started treatment with meropenem and minocycline for a polymicrobial infection. Within 1 week, she had tongue discoloration that was consistent with black hairy tongue.

AI mammography aids are being sold as additions to mammography screening, with direct-to-consumer marketing touting improved cancer-detection rates, despite a lack of evidence of clinical effective ...

Leading cardiologists discuss PARADIGM-HF, a trial of angiotensinneprilysin inhibition versus enalapril in advanced heart failure.

The authors describe the implications of the Affordable Care Act for safety-net health systems and how hospital-based safety-net care systems are responding to health care reform.

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 ...

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.