Medical credit cards have emerged as a popular financing tool for patients seeking care they might otherwise be unable to afford. But these cards may ultimately increase financial burdens on patients.

A woman with asthma and obstructive sleep apnea presented with a 1-month history of worsening dyspnea and dry cough. CT of the chest showed anterior bowing of the posterior wall of the ...

A 91-year-old man with a history of bladder carcinoma and left total knee arthroplasty was evaluated because of left knee pain. A culture of synovial fluid showed no growth. A diagnosis was made.

This Sounding Board announces a new FDA policy that the default requirement for FDA approvals will be one robust pivotal trial plus confirmatory evidence, rather than two trials.

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A 7-year-old boy was brought to a hospital with a 3-month history of cognitive deterioration and seizures. He had contracted measles at 7 months of age while living in an area where the ...

Trainees’ paths to safe, independent practice are variable. Artificial intelligence could help accelerate implementation of competency-based medical education to support individualized development.

The most important attribute of patient-centered care is the active engagement of patients when fateful health care decisions must be made — when they arrive at a crossroads of medical options, where ...

Explore this issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 390 No. 1).

In the management of breast cancer, treatment approaches are locoregional (i.e., surgery and radiotherapy) or systemic (i.e., chemotherapy, targeted therapy, endocrine therapy, and immunotherapy). The ...

Exercise rehabilitation has a long history in the management of chronic heart failure, with the first randomized trial of exercise training dating back to 1990 1 — and by the late 1990s, it had become ...