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Pediatric urgent care encompasses a wide range of acute illness and injury topics, from minor conditions that solely require reassurance to the recognition and stabilization of potentially life-threatening conditions that require transfer to a higher level of care.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the magnitude of health inequities that exist today. In this Curbside Consults as part of our “Inclusivity in Medicine” series, Dr. Jim O’Connell, President of the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program joins us to discuss how the...

Knee osteoarthritis is highly prevalent among older adults. Treatments include exercise, weight management, training in self-efficacy and pain-coping skills, and medications (commonly topical or oral NSAIDs, the latter often with a proton-pump inhibitor).

Patients with recurrent pericarditis were treated with the interleukin-1 trap rilonacept. Those who had a response were randomly assigned to receive continued rilonacept or placebo. Rilonacept led to a significantly lower risk of pericarditis recurrence than placebo.

This review highlights the most important medical topics of 2020, as chosen by the editors of NEJM Journal Watch General Medicine.

Mrs. Singh is a 63-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and overweight who is in clinic for follow-up. Her systolic blood pressure (SBP) is 144 mm Hg and recent labs revealed an LDL cholesterol level of 121 mg/dL. She takes hydrochlorothiazide...

For decades, antenatal dexamethasone has been the gold standard in pregnant women at risk for preterm birth in the United States. In 1972, the first trial of the efficacy of antenatal glucocorticoids in at-risk mothers reported a reduction in respiratory distress syndrome...