Atheendar Venkataramani is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine and director of the Opportunity for Health Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. A.S. Venkataramani. Affirmative Action, Population Health, and the Importance of Opportunity and Hope. N Engl J Med 2023;389:1157-1159.

Steven Woloshin is a professor of medicine and the director of the Center for Medicine and the Media at the Dartmouth Institute and a member of the Dartmouth Cancer Center. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. S. Woloshin and Others. The New USPSTF Mammography Recommendations — A Dissenting View. N Engl J Med 2023;389:1061-1064.

Erin Fuse Brown is a professor of law and director of the Center for Law, Health and Society at Georgia State University and a member of the Journal’s Perspective Advisory Board. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J.M. Zhu, H. Rooke-Ley, and E. Fuse Brown. A Doctrine in Name Only — Strengthening Prohibitions against the Corporate Practice of Medicine. N Engl J Med 2023;389:965-968.

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New York State (NYS) mandates reporting of all hospital-associated communicable disease outbreaks. We describe trends in NYS surveillance for neonatal unit MRSA outbreaks, the evolution of national MRSA infection prevention and control (IPC) recommendations, and IPC measures taken by NYS neonatal units.

An inpatient endoscopy unit is a care hub for patients from throughout the hospital and can be the site of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Shared surfaces and other non-medical devices (keyboards) have been increasingly recognized as sites of pathogen transmission. Beyond standard cleaning of high touch target areas, we queried whether the addition of automated devices delivering low-intensity doses of UV-C radiation could further reduce bioburden in an academic endoscopy unit.

Aquatic opportunistic pathogen Aeromonas hydrophila, known to persist in low nutrient chlorinated waters, can cause life-threatening infections. Two intensive care units (ICUs) experienced a cluster of Aeromonas infections following outdoor temperature spikes coinciding with recurrent plumbing issues, with fatalities due to severe underlying comorbidities co-occurring with extensively drug resistant (XDR) Aeromonas.