Improvements in medical therapy, carotid-artery stenting, and carotid endarterectomy call into question the preferred ...

The management of carotid-artery stenosis that has not caused recent symptoms — asymptomatic carotid stenosis — has been controversial. Clinical trials that began more than 30 years ago showed a small ...

Gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers remain a major global health challenge, with a high risk of recurrence despite surgery and perioperative chemotherapy. The standard perioperative regimen, ...

This feature about a man with obesity offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting initiation of semaglutide therapy and the other recommending bariatric and metabolic surgery.

Protecting health is a team sport — yet the public health and clinical care systems meant to advance this goal have been siloed for too long.

The Nova food-classification system has advanced efforts to address modern diets of highly processed foods. But it’s unclear whether it can be codified at a national level to support public health.

This feature about a man hospitalized for uncomplicated diverticulitis who is found to have high blood pressure offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting watchful waiting and ...

Collaborators from Massachusetts General Hospital, Community Servings, and the University of North Carolina provide medically tailored meals for people with chronic illness and food insecurity.

The addition of pembrolizumab to trastuzumab and chemotherapy in patients with gastric cancer improved both progression-free and overall survival as compared with trastuzumab and chemotherapy alone.

A 62-year-old man with hypercapnic respiratory failure was intubated, and a propofol infusion was initiated. Five days after admission, his urine became green.

Competition is vital to the success of Medicare Advantage but is limited. As the program grows rapidly under favorable payment policy, a reformed traditional Medicare could provide valuable competi ...