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- + Audio Highlights October 26-November 1, 2024 —Listen to the JAMA Editor’s Summary for an overview and discussion of the important articles appearing in JAMA.
- + CDC Reports 13 Dairy Farm Workers Infected With Bird Flu in California—Thirteen people working on California dairy farms have been infected with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, or H5N1 bird flu, the Centers for Disease Con...
- + Breast Cancer Incidence Still Rising Despite Decline in Death Rates—Despite the decline in death rates from breast cancer among women, the incidence of the disease has continued to rise in the US, by 1% a year from 201...
- + Large Marburg Virus Disease Outbreak in the Republic of Rwanda—The first outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the Republic of Rwanda has been confirmed, according to a US Centers for Disease Control and Prev...
- + More People in Their 40s Being Screened for Colorectal Cancer Under New Recommendation—More people in their 40s with an average risk of colorectal cancer are being screened after the US Preventive Services Task Force lowered the recommen...
- + Study: Most Pregnant People Iron Deficient by Third Trimester—People require almost 10 times as much iron after they become pregnant to support fetal development, but, for many, this need isn’t being met. Most wo...
- + Injurious Falls in Older Adults May Be a Harbinger of Dementia—Older people with Alzheimer disease or its precursor, mild cognitive impairment, face an increased risk of falling, but researchers have now found tha...
- + Incorrect Arm Positions Increase Blood Pressure Readings—Commonly used, nonstandard arm positions can result in higher blood pressure readings, according to a trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
- + Study Finds Moderate Benefit of Time-Restricted Eating for Metabolic Syndrome—A recent study found that time-restricted eating, in which daily dietary intake is limited to 8 to 10 consistent hours without mandating calorie reduc...
- + How the Texas Abortion Ban Is Affecting OB-GYNs—This Medical News article discusses the impact of the Texas abortion ban on obstetrician-gynecologists and their patients in the state and beyond.
- + Incorrect Wording—In the Viewpoint titled “The Science of Biosimilars—Updating Interchangeability,” published in the October 15, 2024, issue of JAMA, incorrect wording ...
- + Periodic Physical Examination—If there is any procedure that represents the apotheosis of the application of preventive medicine, it is the periodic physical examination. This is t...
- + Protecting Participants in Clinical Research—To the Editor Although the title of the recent Viewpoint article “Protecting Participants Is Not the Top Priority in Clinical Research” is correct, we...
- + Protecting Participants in Clinical Research—Reply—In Reply I appreciate the comments of Mr Rothstein and Dr Siegal on my recent Viewpoint about the Declaration of Helsinki. We agree on many points, in...
- + Ovarian Odyssey—In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician thwarted a likely fatal cancer after undergoing genetic testing after noticing a pattern in her famil...
- + State Policies Regulating Law Enforcement Access to Testosterone Prescription Data—This study identifies state policies authorizing law enforcement access to prescription drug monitoring program data and discusses the characteristics...
- + Electroencephalography-Guided Anesthesia and Delirium in Older Adults—To the Editor A recent trial concluded that among older adults undergoing cardiac surgery, electroencephalography (EEG)-guided anesthetic administrati...
- + Electroencephalography-Guided Anesthesia and Delirium in Older Adults—Reply—In Reply We thank Dr Xiang and colleagues for their Letter, in which they express concern that transfusion of platelets, prolonged aortic cross-clamp ...
- + Old Doc—Some might say I have a cervical myelopathy Thanks to my mother's arthritis. In fact, what I have is Connie's bum neck. (She lurched in and out of cli...
- + “Hyperesthetic Neuralgia” and “Crawly Skin”: Poetry and Empathy in Medicine—The long list of empathy killers in medical practice is familiar: time constraints, financial imperatives, cross-cultural misunderstanding, interposed...
- + Primary Care–Based Chronic Kidney Disease Management—To the Editor Although the study by Dr Rodriguez and colleagues provides a solid foundation for understanding gender differences in chronic kidney dis...
- + Primary Care–Based Chronic Kidney Disease Management—Reply—In Reply We appreciate the letter from Dr Hu regarding additional points of consideration for our study on CKD. We agree that it is critical to consid...
- + Ovarian Aging and Fertility—This JAMA Insights discusses ovarian aging and provides strategies to address infertility due to ovarian aging.
- + Patient Information: Strategies to Help Patients Afford Their Medicines in the US—This JAMA Patient Page outlines 7 strategies that patients can use to respond to high prescription drug costs in the US.
- + Strategies to Help Patients Navigate High Prescription Drug Costs—This article describes strategies that clinical teams can use to help patients afford prescription drugs and proposes an algorithm to help identify wh...
- + Translating AI for the Clinician—This Viewpoint explores how artificial intelligence technologies can adopt a clinical practice framework to identify use cases and outline the technol...
- + Effect of Electric Fans on Body Core Temperature in Older Adults Exposed to Extreme Indoor Heat—This study assessed whether electric fans limit core temperature increases in adults aged 65 to 85 years exposed to conditions similar to those experi...
- + Shock First or Pace First to Break Ventricular Tachycardia?—Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) decrease all-cause mortality in patients at high risk for ventricular arrhythmias, especially those wit...
- + Assessment of Antitachycardia Pacing in Primary Prevention Patients—This randomized clinical trial assesses the role of antitachycardia pacing in terminating fast ventricular tachycardia in primary prevention patients ...
- + Estimation of Tax Benefit of US Nonprofit Hospitals—This study uses data from Medicare Cost Reports to investigate the financial benefit US nonprofit hospitals receive from their tax-exempt status and o...
- + Chemistry Matters—From a Putative Peptide to Effective Treatments for Diabetes and Obesity: 2024 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award—In this Viewpoint, 2024 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award winner Svetlana Mojsov describes her discovery of GLP-1 (7-37), the biologicall...
- + Discovery of cGAS as a DNA-Sensing Enzyme That Triggers Inflammation: 2024 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award—In this Viewpoint, 2024 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award winner Zhijian J. Chen describes his discovery of cyclic guanosine monophosphate–ad...
- + GLP-1 for Treating Obesity: 2024 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award—In this Viewpoint, 2024 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award winner Lotte Bjerre Knudsen describes her discovery of glucagon-like peptide-1 ...
- + AIDS in Africa: 2024 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award—In this Viewpoint, 2024 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award winners Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim discuss their journey in AIDS ...
- + Noninvasive Ventilation in COPD—Pressure Matters—High-intensity noninvasive ventilation was first used more than 20 years ago in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic...
- + Effect of Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation on the Need for Endotracheal Intubation in COPD—This randomized clinical trial compares the effect of high-intensity noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) vs low-intensity NPPV on the nee...
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- + HHS Will Provide Free US-Made COVID-19 Tests to Households—The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, an agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services, has announced the reopeni...
- + Study Cautions Against Mouth Taping for Patients With Sleep Apnea—Mouth taping is a sleep technique that has been promoted widely across social media. Although mouth breathing during sleep is associated with severity...
- + AAP Issues First Opioid Prescribing Guideline for Children—The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released its first clinical guidance on prescribing opioids for outpatient acute pain management to youth. Al...
- + Study: MMR Vaccine Protection Wanes Slightly Over Time—Although most measles cases in England occur among unvaccinated individuals, the proportion of cases among those who were fully vaccinated with 2 dose...
- + FDA Approves Novel Schizophrenia Drug—The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new treatment for schizophrenia that relies on a novel mechanism of action. Oral xanomel...
- + Study: Redlining Linked With Shorter Life Expectancy—Adding to decades of evidence on the negative effects of the historical discriminatory practice called redlining, a new study finds that those who liv...
- + Bright Light Therapy Not Effective for Major Depressive Disorder—Bright light therapy is often used to treat seasonal depressive disorder, but the results of a recent trial in JAMA Psychiatry suggest that its benefi...
- + Few Patients Receive Testing After Abnormal Urine Protein Results—Too few patients with abnormal urine protein dipstick test results receive the recommended follow-up with albumin to creatinine ratio (ACR) testing to...
- + Myopia Cases Are Rising at Alarming Rates in Children, Teens—This Medical News article discusses new research on global trends in nearsightedness, possible ways to prevent and treat it, and calls to classify it ...
- + Why Are Pertussis Cases On the Rise?—This Medical News article discusses the reasons behind the resurgence of pertussis in the US and elsewhere this year.
- + Audio Highlights October 19-25, 2024 —Listen to the JAMA Editor’s Summary for an overview and discussion of the important articles appearing in JAMA.
- + Revisions to List of Nonauthor Collaborators—The Original Investigation titled “Risankizumab for Ulcerative Colitis: Two Randomized Clinical Trials,” published on July 22, 2024, has been updated ...
- + Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness—This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the Wilderness Medical Society’s 2024 recommendations on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of acu...
- + The Surgery of the Heart—Some of the most dramatic chapters in the history of medicine deal with the development of surgery. “A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s...
- + Fecal Immunochemical Test vs Stool RNA Testing for Colorectal Cancer Screening—To the Editor We read with interest the recent study that compared the fecal immunochemical test (FIT) positivity threshold vs multitarget stool RNA (...
- + Fecal Immunochemical Test vs Stool RNA Testing for Colorectal Cancer Screening—Reply—In Reply Our study adjusted the FIT cutoff to yield the same overall positivity rate as reported for the mt-sRNA test (17%) to enhance comparability o...
- + Patient Information: Allergic Rhinitis—This JAMA Patient Page describes allergic rhinitis and its risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment.
- + I Spy—In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatric oncology fellow who weaves storytelling into her practice to help patients process their illness describ...
- + Prevention of Anal Cancer in High-Risk Individuals—This JAMA Insights examines the treatment and rising prevalence of anal cancer in the US in high-risk groups, including people with HIV and immunosupp...
- + GLP-1RA and SGLT2 Inhibitor Prescribing in People With Diabetes—This pooled cross-sectional study explores prescribing rates for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibito...
- + The Diagnosis—When you hear the cancer doctor we just met read the biopsy results from your PET scan, the issues leading up to this moment, directly off an Epic cha...
- + Meeting the Unmet Needs in Rare Cancer—Retinoblastoma, a rare but aggressive eye cancer in infants and young children, accounts for 2% to 4% of pediatric malignancies globally, with an inci...
- + Management of Depression—To the Editor The Review by Dr Simon and colleagues on management of depression in adults provides many treatment options for depressive illnesses. Ho...
- + Management of Depression—To the Editor I read the Review on management of depression in adults by Dr Simon and colleagues with great interest. I would like to provide some sup...
- + Management of Depression—To the Editor We read with great interest the Review on management of depression by Dr Simon and colleagues. We appreciate the comprehensive view of t...
- + Management of Depression—To the Editor We read with great interest the recent Review by Dr Simon and colleagues on management of depression in adults. Although we commend the ...
- + Management of Depression—Reply—In Reply We thank all correspondents for their attention to our work. Our Review intended to focus on questions most relevant to primary care and othe...
- + Three vs 6 Cycles of Chemotherapy for High-Risk Retinoblastoma—This randomized clinical trial examines whether 3 cycles of carboplatin, etoposide, and vincristine chemotherapy is noninferior to 6 cycles for enucle...
- + Mpox Clinical Presentation, Diagnostic Approaches, and Treatment Strategies—This review examines the epidemiology, transmission, clinical presentation, assessment and diagnosis, prognosis, management and treatment, and prevent...
- + Risk and Benefit of Restrictive Transfusion Strategies in Neurocritically Ill Patients—Acute neurological injuries, especially traumatic brain injuries and subarachnoid hemorrhages, often affect young and previously healthy patients with...
- + Restrictive vs Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Patients With Acute Brain Injury—This randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of a liberal vs a restrictive hemoglobin threshold for red blood cell transfusion on unfavorable ne...
- + Regulations for Implementing Virtual Care Technology for Patients With Disabilities—This Viewpoint discusses the new federal regulations that require health care institutions to develop virtual care technologies that are accessible to...
- + Decline of Mpox Antibody Responses After Modified Vaccinia Ankara–Bavarian Nordic Vaccination—This study assesses mpox-specific immune responses for 12 months after MVA-BN vaccination.
- + Fecal Immunochemical Test and Helicobacter pylori Stool Antigen Co-Testing—Gastric cancer is a leading cause of cancer death globally. Although endoscopy-based screening has led to a decrease in gastric cancer mortality in Ea...
- + Screening for Helicobacter pylori to Prevent Gastric Cancer—This randomized clinical trial evaluates the effects of Helicobacter pylori stool antigen assessment plus fecal immunochemical testing (FIT), vs FIT a...
- + Preventive Care Coverage Threatened by Federal Court Ruling—This Viewpoint highlights the 2 most concerning aspects of the Braidwood Management Inc v Becerra ruling and their potential effect on health equity.
- + The US Preventive Services Task Force in Legal Jeopardy—This work discusses the Braidwood Management Inc v Becerra case and how the intent of Congress, the health of the public, and the law may come into co...
- + H5 Influenza Vaccines—This Viewpoint discusses H5 influenza vaccine use in light of the current outbreak and how vaccine development, stockpiling, and deployment could shap...
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