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

Esophageal cancer is a highly lethal disease and the seventh leading cause of cancer-related death. In 2022, there were 511,000 new cases of esophageal cancer and 445,000 deaths from esophageal cancer ...

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 ...

This article was prepared while Mr. Daval was a research fellow at PORTAL. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the FDA, the Department of ...

Explore the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 393 No. 20).

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.

After 60 years of cogitation about normal-pressure hydrocephalus, the results of a worthy randomized trial that assessed the effects of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunting are now published in the ...