Genetic deficiency of otoferlin, a protein critical to synaptic transmission by the sensory hair cells of the ear, causes congenital deafness. Medicines to treat the condition are lacking; ...

Digital tobacco-cessation treatments hold great promise. But dedicated efforts will be required to promote access to and ...

More than 95% of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension are women of childbearing age with obesity. 4 Men are seldom affected, for unknown reasons. Even among women with obesity the ...

A 22-year-old woman presented with a 3-month history of bumps on the right ventral surface of her tongue. On physical examination, the bumps were observed to be pink papillomatous lesions measuring 3 ...

Lawmakers and regulators have grown alarmed about vertical integration and the role of “middlemen” in the U.S. health care system. Yet pharmaceutical wholesalers have largely evaded public scrutiny.

In a 21-year-old woman who presented with a 7-day history of sore throat and cough, a chest radiograph showed two hemivertebrae at the ninth thoracic vertebral body.

In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch ...

Having worked at seven hospitals in Gaza since December 2023, an American surgeon finds value in doing whatever is possible to serve a community — and bearing witness to unimaginable human suffering.

To the Editor: The report by Ye et al. (July 31 issue)1 on the restoration of T-cell receptor signaling in squamous-cell carcinoma (SCC) challenges the so-called hit-and-run model of the role of β- ...

States that use federal dollars to provide health care to unauthorized immigrants, beyond narrowly defined emergency services, will now face enforcement actions and potential recoupment of funds.