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Pediatrics
11th Mar, 2026
The New England Journal of Medicine
When a mother cites the CDC as her source of dangerous misinformation about vaccines, her child’s pediatrician struggles: how hard can a doctor push back without destroying the trust built over a lifetime?
Both viral and host factors have contributed to the intensity of influenza activity during the 2025–2026 season. Some of these factors can be managed, whereas others are largely beyond human control.
Hematology/Oncology
When a physician’s own incidental finding sends her down a long and winding path to find answers, she finds herself overcome with worry — but also, eventually, a new appreciation for life.
Health Policy
The AHEAD model was intended to slow health care cost growth, improve population health, and advance health equity. But under the new administration, its focus has shifted from equity to efficiency.
Medical credit cards have emerged as a popular financing tool for patients seeking care they might otherwise be unable to afford. But these cards may ultimately increase financial burdens on patients.
The CMS Innovation Center is approaching the next negotiation cycle for the CGT Access Model. Several considerations will guide the selection of future candidate diseases and potential new model designs.
Psychiatry
A 27-year-old man with bipolar I disorder was admitted to the hospital with abnormal behaviors and confusion. Tachycardia was present, and the patient had a seizure. A diagnosis was made.
Gastroenterology
NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests lay bare the joys and rewards of full-spectrum primary care practice and consider ways of stoking students’ passion, and strengthening their ability, to pursue it.
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 Journal.1 No one seems to want to own idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus. The symptoms are neurologic, the treatment…
In patients with idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus responsive to CSF drainage, shunting improved gait and balance at 3 months, but not cognition or incontinence, and was associated with some procedure-related risks.
Despite use of smokeless tobacco products by more than 360 million people globally and increasing incidence of oral cancers, research and policies on these products have lagged behind those for cigarettes.
Emergency Medicine
In children and adolescents with episodic migraine, fremanezumab led to a greater reduction in migraine days per month than placebo (−2.5 days vs. −1.4), and nearly half of recipients had a reduction of 50% or more in migraine days.
In a claims-based study involving 3790 affected youths, parental firearm injury was associated with increases in psychiatric diagnoses — especially trauma-related disorders — and in mental health visits among children.
A 29-year-old woman with active opioid, alcohol, benzodiazepine, tobacco, and cocaine use disorders and recent intravenous drug use presented with acute onset of chills and increased pain and drainage of chronic wounds in both legs.
Analysis of U.S. deaths of pregnant and postpartum women from 2018–2023 indicates that obstetrical complications and disease are no longer the leading causes of maternal death, replaced by homicide, suicide, and overdose.
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