Despite their limited experience, medical students and residents are often sought out for health advice by family and friends. In an inequitable health system, these consults may seem essential.

A new Massachusetts law may be the most far-reaching U.S. state legislation aimed at curtailing the influence of private equity in health care. It could serve as a model for other jurisdictions.

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

CME activities, cases, challenges, videos, and more teaching and learning tools from the New England Journal of Medicine.

“Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry toward higher levels of integrated control by consolidated profit-seeking ...

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 ...

The rising tide of chronic kidney disease among patients with type 2 diabetes continues to challenge clinicians and health systems worldwide.1 Advances have been made in the management of chronic k ...

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 ...

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Understanding today’s corporatization of U.S. health care requires seeing it from a historical perspective, as a process that began with a change in the business model of care delivery in the 1920s.

This Double Take video explores the link between certain strains of human papillomavirus and cancer and reviews the evidence ...

The extreme reductions that the Trump administration is making at the vital, mission-driven Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amount to unilateral disarmament against health hazards.