The FDA has begun soliciting feedback to inform the next version of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. User fees remain ...

“Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry ...

A 28-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of severe hypoxemia and right heart failure that had been caused by rapidly progressive pulmonary hypertension. A diagnosis was made.

An industry-supported center claims that it costs companies $2.6 billion to develop a new drug. But we need a broader-based and more transparent reckoning of research-and-development costs to infor ...

A small-molecule drug proves its mettle in the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, a disease amenable to intervention at the pre-mRNA level.

To prevent the spread of inaccurate information, academic and health care institutions will need to equip scientists and clinicians to engage effectively on nontraditional media platforms.

Though infant mortality has continuously been targeted by health policy agendas, policies tend to place it in an individualistic and narrow frame, failing to consider and address its structural ...

A 21-month-old boy presented with a pruritic rash on his left leg that was thought to be at the site of a recent insect bite. A video shows a pulsating erythematous plaque, referred to as Quincke ...

A 59-year-old veterinarian presented with a 1-year history of a painful rash on his hand. Verrucous plaques with overlying thick yellow-brown crusting were seen on the dorsum of the hand and the me ...

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.

The author describes the scientific foundations of a clinical trial of a first-in-class small-molecule estrogen receptor degrader to treat patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Although xenon may have neuroprotective effects, there is no strong evidence that it aids in short-term, high-altitude performance. Success is more likely a result of acclimatization, oxygen suppor ...