For patients with moderate aortic stenosis, current guidelines recommend clinical surveillance with echocardiographic assessment every 1 or 2 years. Whether transcatheter aortic-valve replacement ...
When patients, or the parents of patients, become heavily invested in searching for someone to blame for an illness, it’s useful to ask what the search is doing for them. Its accuracy is rarely ...
The U.S. health care system still can’t identify medical harm as it occurs. But it’s now possible to develop systems that correct their own deficiencies and make improvements that matter to patients.
Multiple myeloma has undergone a therapeutic revolution at a pace nearly unmatched in oncology. Yet amid these advances, a key assumption in multiple myeloma therapy persists: more and longer ...
Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy with a platinum-based agent and pemetrexed is a widely used standard first-line treatment option for patients with programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1)–negative advanced ...
Clinicians in Puerto Rico sometimes provide abortion care to people who travel to obtain services that are no longer provided in their home states. Yet residents themselves face high barriers to care.
In adults with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis, aortic-valve replacement (AVR) relieves symptoms and improves survival. 1-3 Over the past 20 years, more information about the progression of aortic ...
Savolitinib is an oral, potent, highly selective MET–tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI). Combination therapy with savolitinib and osimertinib, an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)–TKI, has shown ...
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Agencies have long relied on civil monetary penalties to address violations of health care and public health regulations. But rules governing federal fines are now in flux.