For patients with hypertension, initiating treatment with an ARB is associated with the best long-term class persistence.

Management of mitochondrial-related heart disease relies on multidisciplinary care and symptom control, as targeted gene-editing therapies are limited.

Early intensive BP control significantly reduces cardiovascular risk in older patients compared with delayed initiation of treatment.

In 2025, the number of all students enrolled in medical school reached 100,723 — a significant milestone for the future of health care. After a slight dip in recent years, overall applications rose ...

Reaching prediabetes remission is linked to a decades-long benefit, with risk for cardiovascular death or hospitalization for HF cut in half.

The FDA is weighing a change that could make warning labels on dietary supplements appear less often on packaging.

Incidence of death or BPD does not differ with expectant management versus active treatment for preterm infants with protocol-defined PDA.

Ketamine for anesthesia does not lower in-hospital death by day 28 compared with etomidate among critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation.

The FDA has approved Wegovy (semaglutide) tablets, the first oral GLP-1 receptor agonist for the treatment of obesity.

The CDC has rescinded its long-standing advice on universal hepatitis B vaccination of newborns within 24 hours of birth.

Alcohol intake, particularly at higher frequency or greater quantity, is associated with elevated risk for multiple cancers.

Nearly 1 in 4 Americans believe the US health care system is in crisis, and high costs are the top reason why.