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JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Staff Writer Samantha Anderer discuss "Is Phage Therapy the Next Big Hope for Urinary Tract Infections?" Related Content: Is Phage Therapy the Next Big Hope for Urinary Tract Infections? 

The winners of the 2026 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, and Masashi Yanagisawa, MD, PhD, discuss how they identified the neuropeptide orexin and deduced its role in narcolepsy. Related Content: How the Albert Lasker Winners Identified Orexin ...  Show more

An opioid abuse epidemic now plagues US healthcare. It was caused, in part, by overzealous advocacy for controlling chronic pain resulting in overuse of narcotics. There are now 2 million Americans addicted to opioids. The approach for treating chronic pain must change. In this p ...  Show more

The first U.S. measles death in nearly a decade has been reported at a Texas children’s hospital, as health officials race to contain the outbreak. The Supreme Court appeared poised to side with an Ohio woman in her bid to revive a lawsuit alleging "reverse discrimination" after ...  Show more

Drug overdose deaths are on the rise all around the country, including in Chicago, Illinois. ProPublica Illinois reporter Duaa Eldeib explains how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the opioid epidemic, and the challenges that public health officials are facing as they work ...  Show more