When we become obsessed with finding the right answer, at the risk of oversimplifying the richly iterative and evolutionary nature of clinical reasoning, the result is the very antithesis of ...

Whether endovascular therapy benefits patients with mild acute ischemic stroke from large-vessel occlusion involving the ...

In adults with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis, aortic-valve replacement (AVR) relieves symptoms and improves survival. 1-3 Over the past 20 years, more information about the progression of aortic ...

The U.S. health care system still can’t identify medical harm as it occurs. But it’s now possible to develop systems that correct their own deficiencies and make improvements that matter to patients.

Over the past 75 years, many medical and surgical specialties have emerged. In this Sounding Board article, the authors outline the history of medical and surgical specialization and subspecialization ...

Clinicians in Puerto Rico sometimes provide abortion care to people who travel to obtain services that are no longer provided in their home states. Yet residents themselves face high barriers to care.

In 2015, pivotal randomized, controlled trials established the benefit of endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke due to a large-vessel occlusion. 1,2 The trials showed a major clinical ...

Health worker burnout, exacerbated by Covid-19, is not only about long hours. It’s about the fundamental disconnect between health workers and the mission to serve that motivates them.

When patients, or the parents of patients, become heavily invested in searching for someone to blame for an illness, it’s useful to ask what the search is doing for them. Its accuracy is rarely ...

Savolitinib is an oral, potent, highly selective MET–tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI). Combination therapy with savolitinib and osimertinib, an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)–TKI, has shown ...

Explore this issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 392 No. 10).

Agencies have long relied on civil monetary penalties to address violations of health care and public health regulations. But rules governing federal fines are now in flux.