Surging pharmaceutical prices in the United States create financial strain for patients, insurance companies, and state and federal governments. Regulatory delays and coverage denials due to product prices can also affect shareholders of pharmaceutical companies by depr...

This theme certainly lacks the element of novelty, since Barton gave the impulse toward its solution by operation, in 1834. Nor is there any dearth of numerical data to shed light on it. Seven years after the report of the first successful cases of the antiseptic period...

The second largest health provider in the United States, Tenet Healthcare, has agreed to pay nearly $500m (£270m; €390m) to settle claims that doctors did unnecessary surgery at the Redding Hospital, in Redding, California. The hospital was raided by 40 agents from the ...

Scientists are in dispute.1 There is nothing new in this. Debate is to be encouraged—truth is nuanced2—except that the debate comes at a critical moment in the response to covid-19.3 It is a debate being played out in most countries and is simply this: what is the best ...

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Editor—We are not surprised by the conclusions drawn by Wyatt et al that educational visits added little to the uptake of evidence into practice.1 We question whether randomised controlled trials can be applied to studies evaluating education, which may use qualitative ...