October 9, 2025
Hypertension is described as resistant if a patient who is taking three or more antihypertensive agents, including a diuretic, at the maximum recommended doses maintains a blood pressure of 140/90 ...
Tomasz J. Guzik, Maciej Tomaszewski
October 9, 2025
In a 21-year-old woman who presented with a 7-day history of sore throat and cough, a chest radiograph showed two hemivertebrae at the ninth thoracic vertebral body.
Shuai Ding, Xin Pan
October 9, 2025
To the Editor: The Case Record discussed by Kotton et al. (June 19 issue)1 addresses a case of deceased organ donor–transmitted strongyloidiasis,1 a rare but serious complication of transplantation...
October 9, 2025
A 36-year-old man was admitted because of fever, hypoxemia, and bacteremia. Imaging revealed pulmonary opacities, thickening of the duodenal wall, and a thrombus in the right renal vein. A diagnosi...
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Elizabeth L. Hohmann
October 9, 2025
To the Editor: The report by Ye et al. (July 31 issue)1 on the restoration of T-cell receptor signaling in squamous-cell carcinoma (SCC) challenges the so-called hit-and-run model of the role of B-...
October 9, 2025
To the Editor: In the recent report by Hoefer et al. (June 19 issue)1 on the diphtheria outbreak among migrants in Europe, there are methodologic constraints in the approach used in the study, in w...
October 9, 2025
Aldosterone dysregulation plays an important pathogenic role in hard-to-control hypertension. In several studies, baxdrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, reduced the seated systolic blood pr...
John M. Flack, Bryan Williams
October 9, 2025
States that use federal dollars to provide health care to unauthorized immigrants, beyond narrowly defined emergency services, will now face enforcement actions and potential recoupment of funds.
Joshua A. Budhu, Francesca M. Gany
October 9, 2025
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension — high cerebrospinal fluid pressure most common in women of reproductive age with obesity — threatens vision. Treatment includes weight loss, medication, and su...
Jonathan C. Horton
October 9, 2025
Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN) is a rare, multisystem, progressive, debilitating, and fatal disease characterized by tissue deposition of misfolded transthyreti...
Julian D. Gillmore, David Adams
October 9, 2025
The U.S. government has taken steps to dismantle the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the bedrock research agency charged with safeguarding worker health.
Andrew T. Gabrielson, Claudia Corwin
October 9, 2025
A 22-year-old woman presented with a 3-month history of bumps on the right ventral surface of her tongue. On physical examination, the bumps were observed to be pink papillomatous lesions measuring...
