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The FDA has begun soliciting feedback to inform the next version of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. User fees remain ...
The benefits of women’s health research haven’t been limited to women. But actions by the Trump administration threaten to dismantle the hard-won progress in this area.
MASLD has become the most common chronic liver disease worldwide. The authors review the features of the disease as well as pharmacotherapies targeting the associated liver and cardiovascular ...
A small-molecule drug proves its mettle in the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, a disease amenable to intervention at the pre-mRNA level.
A man from rural India presented with redness and blurry vision in one eye. Examination was notable for panuveitis and a live worm in the posterior segment; the worm was removed in a pars plana vit ...
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 ...
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 ...
An 80-year-old woman presented with a 3-day history of abdominal pain. Imaging revealed numerous small gallstones in the gallbladder and cystic duct, consistent with cholecystitis.
A 72-year-old woman with a 30-year history of paraplegia was referred to the urology clinic for treatment of a bladder stone. CT of the abdomen revealed a large bladder stone with a tree ring ...
A 55-year-old man in the ICU had a sudden-onset vesicular rash appear across his trunk and arms. On examination, he was febrile and had clear vesicles resembling water droplets across his torso (sh ...
To the Editor: In his review article, Tewari (Jan. 2 issue)1 states that a randomized, controlled trial conducted in Mumbai measured mortality from cervical cancer among women who were assigned to ...