Having inherited a strong sense of professionalism from her mother and female physician mentors, a trainee finds the realities of juggling motherhood and medicine more difficult than she expected.
Posted: June 6, 2026, 12:00 am
Vaccine hesitancy is often driven by safety concerns. Clinician recommendations, presumptive communication, and empathy improve uptake; maintaining trust supports future acceptance and community protection.
Posted: June 4, 2026, 12:00 am
The prevalence of wasting among children in Gaza tracks with Israeli blockades on aid, but war may lead to famine even without such policies. How should starvation be prevented and treated in wartime?
Posted: June 4, 2026, 12:00 am
A 50-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of vaginal bleeding and anemia. She had a history of fibroids and 1 month of progressive thrombocytopenia. A diagnosis was made.
Posted: May 14, 2026, 12:00 am
In the mid-19th century, the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis’s observations and theories about the transfer of “cadaverous particles” on the hands of doctors led to the development of hygiene protocols, such as hand washing with chlorine, which resulted in a reduction in maternal mortality associated with puerperal fever.1,2 ...
Posted: April 30, 2026, 12:00 am
This cluster-randomized trial in Malawi and Uganda showed a significant benefit of an intervention to support health care providers in hand washing, preventing and managing maternal infection, and detecting and treating sepsis.
Posted: April 30, 2026, 12:00 am
In a patient with metastatic cervical cancer treated with the nectin-4–targeted antibody–drug conjugate bulumtatug fuvedotin, a new hepatic lesion proved to be pseudoprogression and resolved with continued therapy.
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:00 am
In the final NOS episode of the season, host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests elucidate the quiet beauty of good primary care and consider how to induce the U.S. health care system to prize it more highly.
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:00 am
Combined oral contraceptives and hormone-replacement therapy increase the risk of venous thromboembolism, although the absolute risk is low. Transdermal estradiol and micronized progesterone carry lower risk.
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:00 am
Corporations that make and market health-harming products are a primary vector for the global increase in mortality related to noncommunicable diseases. Research using internal industry documents can help.
Posted: March 26, 2026, 12:00 am
A 49-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of an itchy lump on her vulva. Examination showed a painless purple mass originating in the labia minora on the left side.
Posted: March 12, 2026, 12:00 am
U.S. clinicians, health systems, and policymakers should recognize immigration enforcement as a social determinant of health currently implicated in a public health crisis and act accordingly.
Posted: March 12, 2026, 12:00 am
Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.
Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:00 am
Group B streptococcal infection mostly affects newborns, infants, pregnant persons, and older adults. Perinatal prevention is successful but contributes to antibiotic exposure. Multivalent glycoconjugate vaccines are in development.
Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:00 am
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.
Posted: February 12, 2026, 12:00 am
This feature about elective cesarean section offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting elective cesarean section if requested by the mother and the other recommending vaginal delivery unless medical indications for a cesarean section arise.
Posted: February 5, 2026, 12:00 am
When a physician is notified that the blood she donated to a biobank revealed a nonfounder BRCA2 variant, the future she has long imagined for herself telescopes inward — yet she knows she is lucky.
Posted: January 29, 2026, 12:00 am
Use of off-label efgartigimod (a neonatal Fc receptor blocker) for fetal acetylcholine receptor antibody–related disorder during a pregnancy stabilized maternal antibodies and led to normal fetal development and a healthy birth.
Posted: January 22, 2026, 12:00 am
The false notion that some forms of contraception cause abortion could restrict access to contraceptives for millions of people in the United States.
Posted: January 22, 2026, 12:00 am
Autism research programs should focus on both causes and effective services and supports. Alarmist claims, chasing of debunked theories of causation, and further stigmatizing autism are counterproductive.
Posted: January 22, 2026, 12:00 am
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