A 58-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks after lumbar surgery because of diplopia and fever. Left leg pain and a rash had preceded the fever and diplopia. A diagnosis was made.

The U.S. government can combat chronic disease among Medicare patients by strengthening primary care, expanding access to preventive care, making care more affordable, and modernizing Medicare ...

Health professionals have a moral duty to practice “upstanding” — intervening as bystanders — in response to sexual harassment and gender bias, an obligation that should be described in codes of ...

Obesity is a chronic disease that results in substantial global morbidity and mortality. The efficacy and safety of tirzepatide, a novel glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and glucagon-like ...

Methods We randomly assigned patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (defined by an estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] of 50 to 75 ml per minute per 1.73 m 2 of body-surface ...

A 64-year-old woman presented with a 4-day history of incessant clicking and rustling sounds in her left ear. On examination, a small spider and its exoskeleton (shown in a video) were seen in the ...

The advent of computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. Since the inception of CT in the 1970s, its use has increased rapidly. It is estimated that more than 62 million CT ...

Methods In this phase 3 trial, we randomly assigned patients with resectable, macroscopic stage III melanoma to two cycles of neoadjuvant ipilimumab plus nivolumab followed by surgery or surgery ...