I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

This feature about a healthy person’s visit to a physician offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one recommending that the physician perform a routine physical examination and the other .....

The best argument against his nonsense is data. Here it is...

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

Dichotomized reporting of diagnostic test results may oversimplify test characteristics. Interval likelihood ratios (ILRs), test characteristics across a range of values, offer a nuanced alternativ...

Addison's disease is a relatively common disorder to endocrinologists, but is rare and potentially fatal when presenting acutely. Treatment now involves replacement of glucocorticoids and mineralocort...

A 47-year-old man with heart failure with a reduced ejection fraction and an ICD for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac death presented with an unheralded syncopal event, which had been captu...

A recent federal announcement to combat tick-borne disease has a promising premise but deserves scrutiny.