Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United ...

Older drugs could potentially advance U.S. hepatitis C elimination efforts. The government could act like a business and use all current and historical market information to its advantage.

With no grandmaster moving the chess pieces of U.S. health care, weighing population density and disease distribution, rural health relies on urban centers — and the kindness of individual strangers ...

To achieve goals focused on diversity in clinical research, trials may need to enroll large numbers of U.S. participants. But diversity initiatives and multiregional strategies can be complementary.

From August 8, 2018, to January 14, 2020, we vaccinated 265,183 participants. Of these vaccinees, 102,515 were monitored on days 0, 3, and 21 for safety. Among the contacts and contacts-of ...

Worldwide, approximately 2 million children younger than 15 years of age are infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with MDR tuberculosis developing in approximately ...

Prevention of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a global health priority. However, trials evaluating the effectiveness of treating Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among contacts of persons with ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when ...

A blast injury is physical trauma caused by the rapid pressure wave and associated fragments generated by an explosion. 1,2 The resulting blast wave compresses air within open and enclosed spaces ...

Standard treatment for multibacillary leprosy is multidrug therapy consisting of dapsone, rifampicin, and clofazimine, with a recommended treatment duration of 12 months. 4 Challenges include ...

The Sepsis-1, Sepsis-2, and Sepsis-3 definitions are for adult sepsis. The IPCC (International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference) and Phoenix definitions are for pediatric sepsis. ARDS denotes ...

Dr. Kathleen M. McFadden (Medicine): A 22-year-old woman was transferred to this hospital in the summer before the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic because of headache, fever, and respiratory ...