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June 5, 2025

Maternal infections underlie several adverse birth outcomes. Whether trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis during pregnancy will improve birth outcomes is unknown.In a double-blind, randomized,...

Bernard Chasekwa, Andrew J. Prendergast

June 5, 2025

A 73-year-old woman presented with severe chest pain. She had undergone multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention 2.5 years earlier. Angiography revealed a large thrombus in an LAD artery sten...

Habib A. Dakik

June 5, 2025

In this report, 30 patients in Mali with untreated multibacillary leprosy were treated with bedaquiline for 8 weeks, followed by standard multidrug therapy. Cultures were cleared in all the patient...

Abdoulaye Fomba, Roch C. Johnson

June 5, 2025

Pulmonary nodules are detected in more than 1.5 million U.S. residents every year. Nodules are identified incidentally on at least 20% of all diagnostic chest computed tomographic (CT) scans and ar...

Michael K. Gould

June 5, 2025

Heightened fear of deportation is keeping migrants with high-risk pregnancies — people who’ve escaped perilous situations — from seeking the care they need. What can their physicians do?

Jecca R. Steinberg

June 5, 2025

To the Editor: The case presented by Shappell et al. (Jan. 16 issue)1 describes a 21-year-old man who had a loss of consciousness and a fall. He ultimately received a diagnosis of posterior reversi...

June 5, 2025

As physicians continue to debate the role of race in clinical algorithms, the unusual history of debates over race-specific anemia diagnosis may be instructive.

Wingel Xue, David S. Jones

June 5, 2025

To the Editor: Brown et al. (Feb. 20 issue)1 report the results of the AMPLIFY trial, in which fixed-duration acalabrutinib–venetoclax, with or without obinutuzumab, was compared with chemoimmunoth...

June 5, 2025

A 62-year-old woman presented with a 1-day history of chest pain on the left side that had radiated to her shoulder and back and was associated with dyspnea, diaphoresis, and lightheadedness.

Ayelet Shapira-Daniels, Eric Awtry

June 5, 2025

New federal policies permit immigration officials to enter health care facilities to conduct enforcement activities. How can health care professionals protect their patients, themselves, and their ...

Holland Kaplan, Peter Ubel

June 5, 2025

A 7-year-old girl was referred to the ED for an elevated lead level. An abdominal radiograph showed intraluminal radiodensities throughout the colon.

Shalini H. Shah, Marissa Hauptman

June 5, 2025

Each year, millions of pulmonary nodules are identified incidentally or through lung cancer screening, and many involve biopsy to distinguish cancer from benign processes. Both navigational broncho...

Robert J. Lentz, Fabien Maldonado

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