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25 juin
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This Viewpoint analyzes how the NCCN’s boxed statement that all cancer is best managed in a clinical trial cannot be applied to all patients and calls for its removal from its clinical practice guidelines.
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02:00Study Participants, Future Patients, and Outcomes That Matter in Cancer Clinical Trials J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) define the efficacy of new cancer treatments and drive changes in clinical practice. Although the role of RCTs in generating knowledge is universally accepted, the often-cited benefits of trial participation for individual patients is open for debate. The trial (…)
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02:00Survival Benefit Associated With Participation in Clinical Trials of Anticancer Drugs J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This systematic review and meta-analysis examines whether patient participation in cancer trials is associated with greater survival benefit compared with routine care.
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To the Editor We think the Phoenix Sepsis Score is an important achievement as a pediatric sepsis definition, which considers the performance and application of the score in lower-resource settings. The score was developed in response to clinician survey results that emphasized that the updated (…)
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02:00Industry Payments to Physicians Endorsing Drugs and Devices on a Social Media Platform J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This study evaluates adherence to industry and professional standards among physicians endorsing drugs and devices on a social media platform.
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This JAMA Insights discusses the use of monoclonal antibodies or protein-based vaccines to help prevent severe RSV infection in infants, children, and older adults.
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The Review titled “Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Review,” published in the May 7, 2024, issue of JAMA, has been updated to provide the absolute mortality rates by sex, age, race, and geographic region in the Prognosis section. This article was corrected online.
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This Medical News article discusses the great resignation in health care and new efforts to create a sustainable medical workforce in the US.
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This Medical News article discusses a randomized clinical trial that investigated the effects of negative emotions on blood vessel dilation.
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The number of mental health and substance use facilities that are owned by private equity firms has steadily increased in the US over the past 10 years, according to findings from about 26 500 facilities nationwide between 2012 and 2023. About 6% of all mental health facilities were private (…)
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More than 40% of women will experience intimate partner violence during their lives, as will more than one-quarter of men. That’s why the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening all women of reproductive age for intimate partner violence, which can include physical, (…)
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Substantial differences existed in the way the 20 leading causes of disease affected females and males worldwide, a study involving data from 1990 to 2021 found.
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Almost all people who inherited 2 identical copies of the APOE4 gene variant had abnormally high levels of amyloid in their cerebrospinal fluid and brain by age 65 years, according to a new study that combined data from more than 3200 brain donors and about 10 000 participants with clinical data.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin supervising laboratory-developed tests more closely due to concerns that they do not always provide accurate results, the agency recently announced.
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About 7% of people seen in an outpatient setting had at least 1 adverse event, according to findings from about 3100 patients from 11 sites in Massachusetts. The majority of these patients—64%—experienced drug-related adverse events, such as allergic reactions. About 15% of affected patients (…)
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Millions of young people currently use e-cigarettes, according to recent data. However, there are few evidence-backed strategies to help people stop vaping. Now, a double-blind randomized study published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that a drug known as cytisinicline might also help curb (…)
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When asked about their feelings on more than 20 topics, older adults listed various health-related costs as their top 6 concerns, based on data from about 3400 respondents to the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging. The majority of respondents aged 50 years or older were (…)
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About 2 years after the global mpox outbreak began, the World Health Organization (WHO) provided updated numbers of mpox cases and revised vaccine recommendations in a new situation report. From 2022 through March 2024, more than 95 200 people have developed mpox infections and 185 patients have (…)
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Listen to the JAMA Editor’s Audio Summary for an overview and discussion of the important articles appearing in this week’s issue of JAMA.
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This meta-analysis assesses whether Black patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction respond differently than patients of other races to renin-angiotensin system (RAS) blockade by examining individual patient data from randomized clinical trials.
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This is the beginning of something for yourself for once, a summer afghan, a simple little throw for meditation,
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Mimesis in poetry is the imitation or re-creation of reality using art. Thinkers ranging from Aristotle to Adorno have wondered at this human capacity to symbolize, and how it helps us make our own sense of, and express to others, both our external and internal worlds. In the poem “Needlework at (…)
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This narrative review summarizes current evidence regarding diagnosis and treatment of chronic pruritus.
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This Viewpoint discusses the recent use of forced nitrogen inhalation as capital punishment in Alabama and describes the body of evidence indicating that forced nitrogen inhalation is an inhumane practice.
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To the Editor We read with great interest the article “International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock” and commend the authors for their dedication to standardizing and improving the care of children with sepsis. By using an empirical approach in a global cohort of (…)
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In Reply Ms Msefula and colleagues raise an important point regarding inclusion of tests and therapies in the Phoenix Sepsis Score that, based on the global survey performed by the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force, may not be universally available. Msefula and colleagues have an associated (…)
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This prospective, multicenter cohort study evaluates the long-term outcomes of men diagnosed with favorable-risk prostate cancer managed with protocol-directed active surveillance, including regular biopsies and prostate-specific antigen screening, from 2008 to 2022.
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This JAMA Patient Page describes age-related macular degeneration development and progression; symptoms and risk factors; and diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment.
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In this narrative medicine essay, a surgical oncologist reflects on his 30-year practice and the care he receives for his leukemia, understanding how vital the relationships and discourse with the care team are for his recovery.
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02:00The Texas Medical Board and the Futility of Medical Exceptions to Abortion Bans J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This Viewpoint describes the failure of yet another state institution to generate meaningful guidance about medical exceptions to abortion bans.
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This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods article discusses accounting for competing risks in clinical research.
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02:00Ransomware Attacks, ED Visits and Inpatient Admissions in Targeted and Nearby Hospitals J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This case-control study analyzes disruptive ransomware attacks against hospitals in California from 2014 to 2020 and emergency department (ED) and inpatient admissions in attacked and nearby hospitals.
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This Viewpoint presents the components of the payment model and the implementation challenges among the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, state Medicaid agencies, patients, and manufacturers.
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High drug prices in the US are a serious problem for both patients and the health care system. Prices of branded drugs are driven higher by monopoly dynamics: patents and other exclusive marketing rights allow companies to increase prices and restrict supply. Firms earn extraordinary profits (…)
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This randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of krill oil supplementation vs placebo on knee pain improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis, significant knee pain, and effusion-synovitis.
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These are not the final few months of my life, not the last bowl of salad I add a few spoons of tuna and mayo to. I’m not going to die on a date printed in the calendar that hangs on my fridge with cheesy pictures of Yosemite and captions like Bike to Work Day. I can sit here at the kitchen (…)
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In Reply We thank Drs Sedghi and Siepmann for their comments. Indeed, all trials included in our individual participant meta-analysis enrolled only patients directly presenting at thrombectomy-capable stroke centers. Hence, the data presented in our study are applicable only to this exact (…)
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This JAMA Insights provides recommendations for Chagas disease screening, diagnosis, and management in the US
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02:00Dispensing of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists to Adolescents and Young Adults, 2020-2023 J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This study uses data from US retail pharmacies to assess national GLP-1RA dispensing to adolescents and young adults from 2020-2023.
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To the Editor A recent individual patient data meta-analysis of 6 randomized trials found that the beneficial effect of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) before thrombectomy in patients with anterior-circulation large-vessel occlusion diminished with time from onset of stroke symptoms to (…)
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This JAMA Patient Page discusses social isolation and loneliness as important public health concerns, especially among older adults.
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In this narrative medicine essay, a newly minted pediatric critical care physician learns firsthand what holistic medical care is from the love and attention she received during a hospitalization for mediastinal lymphoma.
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This Viewpoint discusses dismantling language barriers via multipronged approaches grounded in innovation, human-centered design, and systems thinking in 3 key areas.
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To the Editor We read Dr Sanchez-Pinto and colleagues’ study with interest, but we are concerned that the final Phoenix 4-organ model does not include acute kidney injury (AKI) assessment. Additionally, the Phoenix 8-organ model used only a single serum creatinine threshold. Despite inclusion of (…)
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In Reply We are grateful to Dr Thadani and colleagues for their interest in our work and applaud their efforts to improve outcomes from AKI around the world. We agree that AKI is important to assess and treat in children with sepsis in any environment and that children in some less-resourced (…)
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02:00Shingles Vaccination in Medicare Part D After Inflation Reduction Act Elimination of Cost Sharing J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This cross-sectional study uses data from retail pharmacies to examine shingles vaccine uptake among Medicare Part D beneficiaries following an IRA policy to eliminate cost sharing.
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This Medical News article is an interview with Saurabh Jha, a cardiothoracic radiologist and an associate professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, and JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo.
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US public health preparedness and response to highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses are assessed in this survey study conducted by the CDC.
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Without a dissenting vote, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association adopted last week a resolution calling on the Board of Trustees to use its best endeavors to have repealed such sections of the national prohibition acts as may interfere with the proper relation between the (…)
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Current strategies to protect children from malaria—administration of new RTS,S/AS01 or R21/Matrix-M vaccines as well as seasonal medications—require about 20 health care visits by the time a child reaches age 5 years. However, an approach involving the annual administration of a monoclonal (…)
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The proportion of people who die while pregnant or within 42 days after their pregnancy ends has been steadily increasing in the US. Now, updated numbers from the National Vital Statistics System indicate promising trends in maternal mortality rates. About 22 people per 100 000 live births died (…)
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Intradermal injections that were one-fifth of the standard mpox vaccine dose generated antibody responses equivalent to those of subcutaneous injections of the standard dose at 6 weeks, based on results from 225 US adults aged 18 to 50 years. No participants experienced serious adverse events (…)
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The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved pivmecillinam, sold as Pivya, for uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) in females aged 18 years or older with no structural abnormalities of their urinary tract. UTIs affect about 50% of females at some point during their life, the (…)
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Although heart failure mortality rates fell between 1999 and 2012, the proportion of people dying from the condition in the US has increased in recent years, according to a study published in JAMA Cardiology. By 2021, the heart failure mortality rate was higher than in 1999, signaling that (…)
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Up to 45% of physicians are subject to noncompete clauses, contractual requirements that can prevent them from changing jobs, which can limit competition and access to care, according to the American Medical Association. However, employers will no longer be allowed to enforce noncompete clauses (…)
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Long-term Veterans Health Administration (VA) nursing home residents who started new medications to treat high blood pressure were more than twice as likely to experience a fracture than those who did not, according to a cohort study involving more than 29 600 VA participants, almost all male, (…)
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization to pemivibart, marketed as Pemgarda, to protect people who are immunocompromised from COVID-19. Pemivibart is the only long-acting monoclonal antibody available in the US for preexposure prophylaxis after the FDA (…)
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People who received a microneedle patch that delivered a measles and rubella vaccine mounted immune responses that were equivalent to those vaccinated via subcutaneous injection, according to data from a randomized clinical trial involving 285 participants from The Gambia, including 240 toddlers (…)
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In Reply We appreciate the Letter by Drs Stern and Hafferty about our recent Viewpoint, which gave priority to highlighting the large and growing body of evidence that patients of physicians who demonstrate more medical knowledge have better prognoses on a host of important outcomes. In doing (…)
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This Special Communication examines the Federal Trade Commission’s policy and legal actions related to alleged misconduct, consolidation, and anticompetitive behavior in the pharmaceutical market between 2000 and 2022.
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A 36-year-old man with obesity and dyslipidemia presented with elevated liver enzymes following a liver transplant to treat acute-on-chronic liver failure due to alcohol-associated hepatitis. What would you do next?
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This Viewpoint discusses how data gaps in published research impede clinicians’ ability to clearly discuss the risks and benefits of amyloid-lowering drugs for treating Alzheimer disease.
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02:00Harnessing the Electronic Health Record to Improve Empiric Antibiotic Prescribing J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)Approximately half of hospitalized adults in the US receive antibiotics, with pneumonia and urinary tract infection (UTI) being the 2 most frequent indications. Estimates suggest about 30% of all antibiotics prescribed in US hospitals are either unnecessary or suboptimal, and extended-spectrum (…)
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This clinical trial examines the effect of an antibiotic stewardship bundle (education, feedback, and real-time multidrug-resistant organism risk-based CPOE prompts) vs routine stewardship on antibiotic selection during the first 3 hospital days in adults with pneumonia.
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02:00Stewardship Prompts to Improve Antibiotic Selection for Urinary Tract Infection J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This clinical trial evaluates whether computerized provider order entry prompts providing patient- and pathogen-specific multidrug-resistant organism risk estimates could reduce use of empiric extended-spectrum antibiotics for treatment of urinary tract infections.
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Listen to the JAMA Editor’s Audio Summary for an overview and discussion of the important articles appearing in this week’s issue of JAMA.
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To The Editor The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has an outsized influence as the arbiter of internal medicine physician quality, given the alternatives of minimal state regulations, spotty insurance-based estimates, and random patient-based ratings. A recent Viewpoint responded to (…)
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In its revised Recommendation Statement, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommends that all women undergo routine breast cancer screening every other year beginning at age 40 years. This is an adjustment from the 2016 recommendation for all women to start at age 50 and for (…)
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02:00USPSTF Report: Collaborative Modeling to Compare Breast Cancer Screening Strategies J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This modeling study uses Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network models and national data on breast cancer incidence, mammography performance, treatment effects, and other-cause mortality in US women without previous cancer diagnoses to estimate outcomes of various mammography (…)
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To the Editor A recent clinical trial demonstrated that apixaban did not significantly reduce recurrent stroke risk compared with aspirin in patients with cryptogenic stroke and evidence of atrial cardiopathy without atrial fibrillation. However, we had some concerns about this study. First, it (…)
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To the Editor The recent Atrial Cardiopathy and Antithrombotic Drugs in Prevention After Cryptogenic Stroke (ARCADIA) trial did not demonstrate superiority of apixaban over aspirin for secondary prevention in patients with cryptogenic stroke and atrial cardiopathy. In this study, atrial (…)
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In Reply In response to our recent article, Dr Chi and colleagues raise an important point regarding uncertainty about optimal biomarkers of atrial cardiopathy. Compared with ARCADIA patients who qualified for enrollment in our study only by the NT-proBNP criterion, those who qualified by only (…)
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Health care is becoming more and more distanced. Clinicians must overcome not just mountains of data, burdensome electronic health records, and ever-increasing numbers of machines that separate us from patients, but more recently also navigate telemedicine and AI-driven chatbots. (…)
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Cardiovascular risk assessment has become an essential part of preventive strategies designed to target risk factor interventions and has contributed to dramatic reductions in cardiovascular disease mortality during the past 60 years in the US and other countries. Beginning in the 1960s, (…)
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About 10% of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) had an autoantibody signature that was present at least 5 years before symptoms, according to an analysis of blood samples from 500 military service members. Researchers collected the first sample an average of 5 years before some participants (…)
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Hospitalized patients in the US tended to have a lower chance of dying or being readmitted within 30 days when they were treated by female physicians rather than male clinicians, a recent study published in Annals of Internal Medicine found. The difference in outcomes for patients examined by (…)
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The average physician is unlikely to build a computer in his basement from a kit. But the principles of computer analysis are not difficult to master. Evidence of the growing importance of these complex electronic machines is found in the announcement that the potential of the computer in (…)
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To the Editor In their recent Viewpoint, Dr Goodman and colleagues examined artificial intelligence (AI)–generated clinical summaries and identified concerns regarding variability, bias, and single-word errors in their AI summaries generated through the ChatGPT model. However, it must be noted (…)
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In Reply We thank Ms Chen and Dr Thornton for their interest in our Viewpoint examining potential benefits and challenges of AI-generated clinical summaries. We fully agree that future studies should evaluate how AI summaries influence physician decision-making and clinical outcomes. We (…)
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Prior research has suggested that antipsychotic drugs might be overprescribed for people with dementia, despite known risks of stroke and sudden cardiac death. Now, findings from a new study in The BMJ indicate that the range of serious adverse outcomes associated with antipsychotics in these (…)
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A multiyear global collaboration among public health agencies has led to new terminology for pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 that can spread through the air, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced. The report by the WHO and partners, including the US Centers for Disease Control and (…)
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Pregnant people who experienced adverse pregnancy outcomes had up to a 50% increased risk of dying from any cause up to 46 years after giving birth, according to data from a cohort study involving about 2.2 million participants from Sweden who gave birth between 1973 and 2015. Cardiovascular and (…)
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced a final rule that increases privacy protections for people seeking legal reproductive care, such as an abortion, either in their home state or by traveling to another one. The modification to the Health Insurance Portability (…)
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Some policymakers have suggested increasing the eligibility age for Medicare and implementing work requirements for Medicaid coverage to reduce US health care costs. However, a recent analysis involving data projections from the Census Bureau suggests that the proposed changes would cost (…)
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The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized a rule establishing the first minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes after an earlier version was proposed last September. The new rule will “hold nursing homes accountable for providing safe and (…)
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02:00Late-Stage Cancer End Points to Speed Cancer Screening Clinical Trials—Not So Fast J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)In this issue of JAMA, Feng et al studied whether late-stage cancer (ie, stage III or stage IV cancer), rather than cancer-specific mortality, was an acceptable alternative end point in clinical trials of cancer screening. The authors analyzed 41 clinical trials conducted in Europe, North (…)
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This 2024 Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends biennial screening mammography for women aged 40 to 74 years (B recommendation) and concludes that evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening mammography in women 75 (…)
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In this JAMA Patient Page, the US Preventive Services Task Force provides a guide to screening for breast cancer.
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This systematic review to support a 2024 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement summarizes published evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for breast cancer in adult females.
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This Viewpoint discusses laws mandating insurance coverage of biomarker testing to broaden access to care for patients with cancer.
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This Medical News story discusses new USPSTF recommendations about the timing of screening mammograms.
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This study evaluates the prognostic value of routinely available cardiovascular biomarkers when added to established risk factors in the identification of individuals at high risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
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To the Editor We have several concerns about the recent trial that examined apixaban for prevention of recurrence after cryptogenic stroke in patients with atrial cardiopathy.
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02:00Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 vs Influenza in Fall-Winter 2023-2024 J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This cohort study evaluates the risk of death in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 or seasonal influenza following the emergence of the JN.1 variant in winter 2023.
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Since her birth with half a brain The doctors have been kind, So awed by her determination they loan a private Room for the transient child to be and Show the worth of being Even if
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This Viewpoint discusses the ongoing lawsuit between plaintiffs who had been affected by atypical femoral fractures while receiving alendronate and the drug manufacturer.
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02:00Cancer Stage Compared With Mortality as End Points in Randomized Clinical Trials of Cancer Screening J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This meta-analysis of 41 randomized clinical trials of cancer screening compares cancer-specific mortality with stage III-IV cancer as end points.
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In this narrative medicine essay, a second-year pediatric resident bears the scars from the terror that descended the moment of her son’s birth at 31 weeks’ gestation, terror relived even after he has come home healthy.
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This Medical News story discusses the development of experimental combination vaccines for adults.
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This JAMA Insights in the Communicating Medicine series explores the concept of “prebunking,” a psychological inoculation technique that could help prevent the spread of misinformation.
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Listen to the JAMA Editor’s Audio Summary for an overview and discussion of the important articles appearing in this week’s issue of JAMA.
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A urine-based test involving 18 genes was more accurate at diagnosing high-grade prostate cancer than existing biomarker tests such as blood levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), according to a recent study published in JAMA Oncology.
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This study of individual participant data from 6 pooled cohorts assesses whether resolution of elevated childhood non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non–HDL-C) by adulthood is associated with reduced risk of clinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) events.
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02:00Assessing the Real-World Effectiveness of Immunizations for Respiratory Syncytial Virus J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This Viewpoint discusses recommendations from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for newly licensed immunizations for respiratory syncytial virus in infants, children with high-risk conditions, and older adults.
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In Reply We appreciate letters about our Review on thyroid cancer. In response to the comments by Drs Beheshtirouy and Shayanfar, the causal association between GLP-1 RA use and thyroid cancer is complex and requires careful consideration of factors that directly or indirectly influence (...)
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To the Editor A recent Review discussed the complexity of thyroid cancer. First, we would like to highlight the importance of distinguishing between benign and malignant thyroid nodules preoperatively.
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To the Editor A recent Review discussed exposure to ionizing radiation as a common risk factor for thyroid cancer. However, it is important to consider additional risk factors for thyroid cancer.
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02:00Substances in Counterfeit Prescription Pills Seized by Law Enforcement, 2017-2022 J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This study examines substances identified during testing of counterfeit prescription pills seized by law enforcement in Rhode Island from 2017 to 2022.
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This Viewpoint discusses the importance of researcher access to federal health care data following a CMS decision to limit the use of physical data and proposes solutions to maintain access and security.
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This JAMA Arts and Medicine feature describes ways in which Fritz Kahn shared a prescient and nuanced vision of technology’s role in the patient-physician interaction, a topic of continued interest and relevance today, through his illustrations.
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In Reply We thank Drs Schoenmakers and Fraser for their comments on our study. We reported the US experience with denosumab administration among dialysis-dependent patients, finding the weighted cumulative incidence of severe hypocalcemia (ie, <7.5 mg/dL or emergent care) at 12 weeks to (...)
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This cross-sectional study assesses the prevalence and temporal evolution of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome stages.
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To the Editor We have some concerns about the recent retrospective public health surveillance study of older female dialysis-dependent patients who were treated with denosumab for osteoporosis.
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In this narrative medicine essay, a lecturer in narrative medicine strives to accept her best self by surmounting the barriers of itchy skin and unsightly red patches caused by chronic atopic dermatitis.
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A 3-year-old had spontaneous gingival hemorrhage and bilateral limb weakness with inability to bear weight. He had no preceding oral trauma or recent infection, took no regular medications, and had no recent use of aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; his diet was limited to (...)
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This randomized trial assesses the effect of ponatinib vs imatinib combined with low-intensity chemotherapy on disease remission in adults with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome–positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
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The refreshing influence of the weekly recurring “day of rest” on a person subjected to the strenuous routine of a busy life is a feature which he himself can duly appreciate in terms of his “feelings” and “spirits.” If it is desired to demonstrate the need of such relaxation and the benefits (...)
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In this issue of JAMA, Jabbour and colleagues report results from the interim analysis of the PhALLCON randomized trial with ponatinib vs imatinib, combined with reduced-intensity chemotherapy. They found ponatinib to have superior efficacy and a comparable safety profile for frontline (...)
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This JAMA Insights article reviews Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) rules for patients, visitors, and other members of the public bringing service animals into health care settings.
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This Medical News article discusses the current H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in US dairy cattle and its implications for occupational and public health.
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This JAMA Patient Page describes allergic skin reactions from contact with poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac plants, and how to treat rashes caused by these plants.
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02:00Causal Inference and Effects of Interventions From Observational Studies in Medical Journals J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This Special Communication examines drawing causal inferences about the effects of interventions from observational studies in medical journals.
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This Medical News story discusses an analysis of deaths by suicide among NCAA athletes over the past 20 years.
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The Special Communication “Causal Inferences About the Effects of Interventions From Observational Studies in Medical Journals,” published in this issue of JAMA, provides a rationale and framework for considering causal inference from observational studies published by medical journals. Our (...)
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Currently, there are few reliable tools for diagnosing mild traumatic brain injuries or predicting their likely course, which can include poor neuropsychiatric outcomes. But results published in JAMA Network Open show that an advanced form of magnetic resonance imaging picked up changes in the (...)
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02:00Exercise Might Lower Heart Disease Risk in Part By Decreasing Stress in the Brain J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)Physical activity might reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease partly by decreasing activity in parts of the brain related to stress, a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests. Researchers looked at data from more than 50 300 adults in Massachusetts who completed (...)
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Patients who were affected by diagnostic errors were more likely to have stigmatizing language in their medical records, according to a new analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine. The cohort study involved more than 2300 hospital admissions during which patients died or were transferred to the (...)
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The number of young people who sought permanent contraception—such as tubal ligations or vasectomies—rose immediately after the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, researchers reported in JAMA Health Forum. The data came from US patients aged 18 to 30 years.
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Previous studies have suggested that many people who use proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) might not have a clinical indication for doing so, which is concerning because PPIs have been associated with chronic kidney disease and infection in some observational studies. Now, recent results published (...)
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Nigeria will be the first country in the world to vaccinate residents aged 1 through 29 years with Men5CV, a novel 1-dose vaccine that protects people from 5 major strains of the meningococcus bacteria (Neisseria meningitidis), the World Health Organization (WHO) announced. The news comes amid (...)
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The majority of people who are currently unhoused—67%—have mental health disorders, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of 85 studies mainly from Canada, Germany, and the US involving more than 48 400 participants. The lifetime prevalence of mental health disorders among people (...)
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About 42% of patients with infections caused by pathogens that were resistant to all first-line antibiotics received only older antibiotics rather than newer ones more recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, a new study found. The results were based on data from 619 US (...)
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The COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna do not cause such conditions as female infertility, myocardial infarction, Bell palsy, or Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults, according to a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that reviewed evidence (...)
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An antecedent body of work established nearly 20 years ago benchmarked the nuanced distinctions of heart failure affecting African American people. Summative statements established a nearly 2-fold higher incidence, earlier onset, greater severity at the time of diagnosis, a more likely (...)
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This study used data on Black participants in 4 large observational studies to better define the natural history of disease in V142I variant carriers across mid to late life, assess variant modifiers, and estimate cardiovascular burden to the US population.
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02:00Error in the Exclusion of Participants From Analysis in the ACTIV-6 Platform Randomized Clinical Trial J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)To the Editor On behalf of my coauthors, I write to explain errors that we identified in the Original Investigation “Effect of Higher-Dose Ivermectin for 6 Days vs Placebo on Time to Sustained Recovery in Outpatients With COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” published online on February 20, (...)
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The Original Investigation titled “Effect of Higher-Dose Ivermectin for 6 Days vs Placebo on Time to Sustained Recovery in Outpatients With COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” published in the March 21, 2023, issue of JAMA, was corrected to fix an error in which 226 participants were (...)
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This Viewpoint discusses the death of a patient caused by unregulated biological products and efforts to encourage federal government oversight of such products.
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In this narrative medicine essay, a medical ethicist discusses the complexity of juggling the interests of members in online forums dedicated to rare diseases after being blocked upon disclosing her affiliation with a medical school, thus barring her from the support and information she needed (...)
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This sequential, multiple assignment randomized trial compares treatment strategies and dosages after abstinence from smoking was not achieved after 6 weeks of first-line therapies.
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This JAMA Patient Page describes strep throat, its signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and potential complications.
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In Reply Our recent article quantified the role of serum urate, the central causal biomarker for gout, and found graded associations with recurrent gout flares, including those resulting in hospitalizations (with 100% of these cases associated with serum urate ?5 mg/dL). Regarding the comments (...)
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This study examines the potential benefits of aspirin as adjuvant therapy for survivors of early breast cancer.
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This Viewpoint discusses the US Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of marketing an at-home testing system for chlamydia and gonorrhea as a good first step in boosting access to screening and treatment and in reducing infection rates.
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To the Editor In a recent article that compared adverse outcomes of localized prostate cancer treatment modalities, persistent urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy was highlighted as a significant difference compared with other therapeutic options. However, the authors overlooked (...)
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In Reply In response to our recent article, Drs Huang and Ding question the validity of using questionnaires to assess sexual function. While a patient’s responses are subjective (ie, indicating how their function seems to them rather than it being measured more objectively), the use of (...)
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To the Editor A recent study reported approximately 10-year follow-up data on functional outcomes of patients after treatment for localized prostate cancer, providing essential evidence-based medical evidence for clinical decision-making. We have 2 concerns regarding the data analyses on (...)
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This Viewpoint examines the appropriateness of FDA accelerated approval of novel gene therapies to treat boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy following clinical trials with surrogate outcomes that did not demonstrate net benefits.
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The Alliance trial led by Chen and colleagues and published in this issue of JAMA addresses an important topic in the management of breast cancer: can daily use of 300 mg of aspirin improve invasive disease–free survival among persons with a diagnosis of nonmetastatic, high-risk breast cancer? (...)
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Commentators on the illness experience, from Broyard to Woolfe, confirm what clinicians frequently observe in patients—to be sick is to feel alone. Whether on a physician’s orders (the tuberculosis sanitorium or COVID-19 social distancing), or due to the lassitude caused by symptoms (...)
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This review of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) summarizes the results of the 4 WHI clinical trials on menopausal hormone therapy, calcium plus vitamin D supplementation, and low-fat diet and their applications to current clinical practice.
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This JAMA Insights discusses the adverse effects of climate change on mental health and proposes solutions to help mitigate those effects.
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This study compares the race and ethnicity of reproductive-age females between states that implemented restrictive abortion policies after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision and states that did not.
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You have found another one, this time landing on the floor of the living room,
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In a Letter to the Editor titled “Pharmacotherapy for Alcohol Use Disorder,” published in the March 5, 2024, issue of JAMA, Wenming Shi’s degree was incorrectly listed; it should have been “MSc.” This article was corrected online.
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In the Original Investigation titled “Lower vs Higher Oxygenation Target and Days Alive Without Life Support in COVID-19: The HOT-COVID Randomized Clinical Trial,” published in the April 9, 2024, issue of JAMA, several data errors occurred. The correct risk ratio for the secondary outcome of (...)
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To the Editor A recent Review supported use of baseline serum urate level to assess the risk of recurrent gout. A concern raised by the accompanying Editorial pertained to the reliability of a single serum urate measurement.
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The endemic disease that I call acronymia continues to spread exponentially. New governmental agencies sprout at an alarming rate, and for a long time only their minions know the meaning of the alphabetical nomenclature with which they live. Equally prolific are the trains of capital letters (...)
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To the Editor A recent study found that serum urate levels were associated with the risk of subsequent gout flares and hospitalizations for recurrent gout. However, urate-lowering therapy did not significantly alter the association between serum urate levels and the risk of acute gout flares. (...)
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This Medical News article is an interview with psychiatrist Vikram Patel, chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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This Medical News article discusses approaches to slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
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People who received high or moderate doses of psilocybin for anxiety or depression treatment seemed to manage adverse effects of the drug well, with most issues improving within 1 to 2 days, a recent meta-analysis of 6 studies involving more than 500 participants found. The findings, published (...)
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Previous research has suggested that young people with breast cancer had 2 to 3 times the risk of being diagnosed with secondary breast cancer. But a new study in JAMA Oncology suggests that may not be true for those who do not have a genetic change linked with higher risk of the disease, such (...)
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Using a salt substitute instead of table salt might lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, according to a meta-analysis in Annals of Internal Medicine. The data were based on 16 randomized clinical trials involving more than 35 000 participants, most of whom were from China or Taiwan.
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People who received financial incentives or gained points for meeting their step goals increased their average daily steps by more than 1500—the equivalent of about three-quarters of a mile—from baseline after 1 year, a recent study published in Circulation found. The randomized clinical trial (...)
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People who received touch interventions, such as massage or gentle stroking for adults and skin-to-skin contact for infants, experienced moderate reductions in pain, depression, and anxiety, according to a meta-analysis of more than 130 studies that involved about 13 000 participants. The (...)
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The number of people diagnosed with prostate cancer will more than double worldwide over the next 2 decades, from 1.4 million in 2020 to 2.9 million by 2040, according to findings from a Lancet Commission. More people will also die from the condition, with an estimated 700 000 patients dying (...)
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Patients typically receive a series of medications, including ?-blockers such as metoprolol and bisoprolol, after experiencing a myocardial infarction, or heart attack. Now, results from a registry-based randomized trial involving more than 5000 participants suggests that some people who’ve (...)
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Oral minoxidil works as well as topical minoxidil 5% for treating people with androgenetic alopecia, also known as male pattern baldness, a double-blind, randomized study found. The results are based on data from 68 men in Brazil aged 18 to 55 years.
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Guided by findings reported in 2015, researchers have thought that the uptick in midlife deaths of despair—those resulting from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholic liver disease—disproportionately affected White people. Now, new data published in JAMA Psychiatry illustrate that the decrease (...)
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02:00Racial and Ethnic Disparities in All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among US Youth J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This cross-sectional study compares all-cause and cause-specific mortality trends and rates among youth from different races and ethnicities between 1999 and 2021.
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This cross-sectional study uses a demographic projection model and publicly available vital statistics data to estimate the national incidence of parental death due to drugs and firearms overall and by race and ethnicity.
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In this issue of JAMA, Wolf et al found that during the period from 2019 to 2021, the US experienced the greatest increase in all-cause pediatric fatalities (aged 1-19 years) in more than 50 years, with increased mortality disproportionately resulting from preventable injuries. Importantly, (...)
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This Viewpoint summarizes a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that encourages the inclusion of pregnant and lactating individuals in clinical research.
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This Viewpoint makes the case for academic health systems to lead the way on climate change action in the US, including planning to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, educating current and future clinicians, and communicating with their patients and communities.
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In Reply Mr Xiao and colleagues raise 5 issues related to our trial of tirzepatide. First, the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist class has been available for the treatment of type 2 diabetes since 2005 and for the treatment of obesity since 2014 and has been the subject of (...)
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To the Editor As reported by Dr Aronne and colleagues, tirzepatide demonstrates therapeutic benefits in weight loss; adults with obesity completing the 36-week lead-in period of the trial experienced a mean weight reduction of 20.9%. From randomization at week 36, those who switched to (...)
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02:00The Overdose Crisis in the 2024 Election—Political Fights and Practical Problems J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This Viewpoint discusses the 2024 presidential election in the context of the addiction and overdose crisis in the US, which has been a unifying challenge and a source of major ideological division in US politics.
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This review summarizes current evidence regarding the diagnosis and treatment of interstitial lung disease.
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02:00Measuring Equity in Readmission as an Assessment of Hospital Performance—Reply J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)In Reply We agree with Drs Gallo and Santiago that research is needed to identify and target the upstream contributors to disparities in hospital readmissions. These root causes function both at the level of the hospital and outside of the hospital via the social determinants of health. In our (...)
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To the Editor A recent study that used Medicare administrative data reported disparities in readmission rates for Black compared with White beneficiaries and notable segregation in the care of Black and White patients among hospitals. These findings necessitate attention to additional (...)
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This cohort study evaluates the risk of postoperative respiratory complications among patients with diabetes undergoing surgery who had vs those who had not a prescription fill for glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists.
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This Viewpoint examines whether overdiagnosis rather than underdiagnosis may now be the dominant form of myocardial infarction misdiagnosis.
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This prospective follow-up study of a randomized clinical trial evaluates whether antenatal corticosteroids administered to birthing parents at risk of late preterm delivery were associated with adverse neurodevelopmental effects on their offspring.
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In Reply We thank Mr Lu and colleagues for their interest in our recent article. In response to their first comment, it is important to note that body weights in this study were self-reported by participants approximately every 2 years and were not measured at clinic visits. Therefore, the (...)
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To the Editor A recent study provided valuable insights into the complex relationship between weight loss and cancer risk. In addition to the limitations mentioned by the authors, we have some concerns about the study methods and the interpretation of the results.
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02:00X (Formerly Twitter) Community Notes Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This study evaluated the topics, accuracy, and credibility of X (formerly Twitter) Community Notes addressing COVID-19 vaccination.
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This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the 2023 American College of Gastroenterology guidelines on management of patients with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding.
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In recent years, there has been a reevaluation of the upper gestational age limit recommended for administration of antenatal corticosteroids. Seven randomized clinical trials (RCTs) published between 2010 and 2022 have evaluated the effects of expanding the limit from 34 to 37 weeks’ (...)
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In this narrative medicine essay, a retired physician describes the kindness, companionship, and skill of the hospice workers who helped his wife and him prepare for her death.
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This JAMA Patient Page describes autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and its signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and therapy options.
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This prospective cohort study compares the differences in time to mortality across sexual orientation in female nurses participating in the Nurses’ Health Study II.
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In Reply Dr Jatoi suggests that a reduction in the incidence of ER-negative breast cancer over the past decades could have contributed to the decline in breast cancer mortality observed in SEER between 1975 and 2019. Indeed, a decline in cancer incidence can have a primary role in decline of (...)
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To the Editor In their recent study, Dr Caswell-Jin and colleagues used 4 Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) models and ascribe the 58% reduction in US breast cancer mortality between 1975 and 2019 to the use of effective treatments and screening. However, the (...)
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The family physician, after seeing a patient through the acute stages of an illness and subsequent convalescence, watched him until his ultimate return to work. The patient, usually stimulated by the daily needs of life on the farm and in the home, was chiefly interested in regaining his (...)
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This JAMA Insights reviews the origin of APOL1 high-risk genetic variants, defines APOL1-mediated kidney disease, and discusses recommendations for screening and management.
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This Medical News story discusses a clinical trial that tested symptom-guided exercise for patients with long COVID and postexertional malaise.
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A new initiative, known as the Coronavirus Network or CoViNet, will bring together experts in human, animal, and environmental health to monitor known coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a (...)
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1), also known as H5N1 bird flu, has been circulating among birds and mammals for the past few years. This March, US officials detected it in dairy cattle in several states. Later that month, a farm worker who was exposed to dairy cattle in Texas tested (...)
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More than one-third of climbers who were exposed to the low-pressure and low-oxygen environment of Mount Everest experienced a cardiac arrhythmia during their climb, a small study found. The data came from 41 healthy men who were, on average, in their mid-30s.
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People with obesity who gained less than the recommended 5 kg to 9 kg of weight during pregnancy did not experience adverse outcomes, and neither did their children, according to data from about 15 800 pregnancies among people with obesity in Sweden.
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People with high levels of blood glucose and triglycerides tended to have a greater risk of mental health conditions later than those who had normal levels of both, according to data from more than 211 000 participants in Sweden published in JAMA Network Open. Changes in some biomarkers were (...)
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Millions of people in the Americas have been infected with dengue and more than 1000 have died in the first 3 months of 2024, tripling the number of dengue cases that occurred in 2023 during the same period, according to a statement by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Last year, (...)
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Clinicians must now get written consent for medical students to conduct examinations or invasive procedures—such as breast, pelvic, prostate, and rectal checks—on patients for the trainees’ education, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced in a recent letter to teaching (...)
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As of late March 2024, health officials in the US have recorded 143 cases of meningococcal disease, 101 of them caused by a strain of the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis known as sequence type (ST) 1466. The total number of cases of the disease represents a more than 75% increase over those (...)
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People answering survey questions and filling out administrative forms from federal agencies will now answer 1 combined question about race and ethnicity and be able to select more than 1 option that represents their identity, the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced in a recent (...)
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How people consume information is evolving. So is JAMA Medical News. This issue debuts JAMA Data Brief, a new department in the journal’s long-standing Medical News & Perspectives.
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This Medical News article discusses a KFF poll about the public’s exposure to and beliefs about inaccurate health information, as well as media use and trust in sources.
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The Original Investigation titled “Intravenous Vitamin C for Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19: Two Harmonized Randomized Clinical Trials,” published on November 14, 2023, has been updated to add Christopher Horvat, MD, MHA, to the list of LOVIT-COVID Investigators, on behalf of the Canadian (...)
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For decades, researchers characterized normal albuminuria as a urine albumin-creatinine ratio of less than 30 mg/g. That has led some clinicians to believe that patients with lower ratios don’t need additional treatment. But a new study in Annals of Internal Medicine challenges that assumption (...)
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Maternal mortality rates in the US almost doubled between 2014 and 2021, from about 17 deaths to about 32 deaths per 100 000 live births. The steepest increase in deaths occurred between 2019 and 2021. But only a minor portion of the increased mortality was driven by people aged 35 years or (...)
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Patients with heart disease as well as anxiety or depression who received mental health treatments tended to have a substantially lower risk of mortality as well as a reduced chance of hospital readmissions and emergency department (ED) visits, according to a cohort study in Journal of the (...)
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Previous research has tied the presence of Fusobacterium nucleatum, a bacterium normally found in the mouth, with colorectal cancer tumors. High amounts of F nucleatum in the tumor are linked with worse prognosis. A recent study clarified that risk, showing that what was thought to be a single (...)
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This Medical News story examines other potential uses of GLP-1 receptor agonists, the popular type 2 diabetes and weight-loss drugs.
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This Medical News article is an interview with Douglas Drachman, MD, an interventional cardiologist and chair of the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting.
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Children born to people who received valproate, an antiseizure medication, during pregnancy had about a 2.7 times higher chance of being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by age 8 years than those born to people who were not treated with antiseizure medications prenatally, according to (...)
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Many people worldwide use progestogen-based hormonal contraception or hormone replacement therapy to manage menopause symptoms. Previous research has linked a handful of high-dose progestogens—cyproterone acetate, nomegestrol acetate, and chlormadinone acetate—with increased risk of (...)
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About 53% of people aged 65 years or older experienced loneliness between April 2020 and September 2021, a recent study involving 603 primary care patients found. Older adults who reported loneliness tended to score lower on measures of physical– and mental health–related quality of life. (...)
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Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health problem that threatens to reverse many of the medical therapy advances achieved over the past 4 decades. Infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are estimated to cause 35 000 deaths in the US every year and increase medical (...)
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To the Editor Dr Cappola and Ms Cohen’s article highlighted the importance of medical communication. The study of communication dates to ancient Greece when Aristotle first studied the rhetoric of Western civilizations. Modern communication scholars draw from this long and rich history, (...)
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In Reply Drs Anderson and Ledford bring to our attention meaningful classifications for medical communication. It is indeed helpful to categorize medical communication into interpersonal, organizational, and mass media since each type has different needs and stipulations.
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02:00Serious Bleeding in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Using Diltiazem With Apixaban or Rivaroxaban J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This cohort study assesses the association of diltiazem with risk of serious bleeding compared with metoprolol in older adults with atrial fibrillation receiving apixaban or rivaroxaban.
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This Rational Clinical Examination systematic review summarizes studies that examined the diagnostic accuracy of clinical examination in determining dislocated hips in infants.
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This Viewpoint summarizes existing federal regulations aimed at protecting research data, describes the challenges of enforcing these regulations, and discusses how evolving privacy technologies could be used to reduce health disparities and advance health equity among pregnant and LGBTQ+ (...)
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02:00Single Ascending and Multiple-Dose Trial of Zerlasiran, a Short Interfering RNA Targeting Lipoprotein(a) J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This phase 1 randomized study assesses the safety and tolerability of zerlasiran, a short interfering RNA targeting hepatic synthesis of apolipoprotein(a), and its effects on serum concentrations of lipoprotein(a), in healthy participants and patients with stable atherosclerotic cardiovascular (...)
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I keep my mother’s dentures warm; they fog the plastic case on my lap. Lips pursed, arms raised above her head, she lies on a table about to slide through the doughnut of an apparatus that looks like a spaceship. I hear David Bowie’s voice: This is Ground Control to Major Tom as the (...)
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Understatement, or “showing without telling,” makes writing in prose and especially in poetry pleasing to read. Medical training, in contrast, is rife with exhaustive explanation. “Open MRI” demonstrates the effect of understatement. The poem brims with implied yet revealing comparisons: the (...)
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In the Editorial titled “Struggling to Stem the Tide of Child Maltreatment,” published in the March 19, 2024, issue of JAMA, incorrect text appeared. In the first full paragraph on the second page, the second sentence should have read “Research on some primary care interventions, such as Safe (...)
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This study examines the association between taking a leave of absence from medical school and placement into graduate medical education (GME) by race and ethnicity.
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In Reply The Letters about our study suggest that the observed positive association between estrogen-only hormone therapy and dementia could have been influenced by (1) potential confounding by indication of hysterectomy-induced early menopause among estrogen-only hormone therapy users or (2) (...)
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This JAMA Patient Page describes hepatitis D infection and its risk factors, outcomes of acute and chronic infection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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When a resident announced that “the patient has no chance of surviving,” a medical student, in this narrative medicine essay, has pondered for years how her mother could have been so reduced and advocates using patients’ names when summarizing their conditions.
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A 41-year-old with type 1 diabetes had generalized weakness, muffled voice, and slurred speech. Neck computed tomography showed soft-tissue gas in the nasopharynx and prevertebral fascia; examination of sinus mucosal samples identified numerous broad, nonseptate right-angled hyphae and (...)
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This cohort study assesses match rates of US applicants with and without disability into specialty residence programs.
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About 12% of patients were inappropriately diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to results from more than 17 000 hospitalized patients across 48 hospitals in Michigan. Older people as well as those with dementia or altered mental status were at particularly high risk of (...)
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People with increased polygenic risk scores for higher body mass index (BMI) would need to walk about 2300 more steps each day to have the same risk of obesity as those with lower scores, a recent retrospective study in JAMA Network Open found. Polygenic risk scores reflect the risk of disease (...)
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To the Editor A recent study reported that estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy in women who underwent hysterectomy without oophorectomy was associated with an increased dementia rate vs nonuse. This article has several limitations that should be considered when interpreting the study’s (...)
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To the Editor A recent study reported an increased dementia risk in women using estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy, which mirrors findings of an earlier study by these authors that demonstrated an increased dementia risk associated with combined menopausal hormone therapy. These studies (...)
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Modern hygiene has been described as the reaction against the old fatalistic creed that deaths inevitably occur at a constant rate. The study of vital statistics shows that there is no “iron law of mortality.” According to a report prepared for the National Conservation Commission fifteen (...)
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Listen to the JAMA Editor’s Audio Summary for an overview and discussion of the important articles appearing in this week’s issue of JAMA.
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People who received a SARS-CoV-2 vaccination had a lower risk of heart failure and blood clots in their veins and arteries after COVID-19 infection than those who had not been vaccinated, a recent study involving more than 20 million participants in Estonia, Spain, and the UK found.
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Amid an uptick in measles cases and outbreaks both in the US and abroad, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an alert on March 18 encouraging clinicians to work with schools and educators to ensure children are up-to-date on their measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) (...)
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved resmetirom, marketed as Rezdiffra, for adults with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) without cirrhosis. NASH is a progressive fatty liver disease that affects up to 8 million people in the US and can cause liver inflammation and (...)
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A vaccine given during pregnancy that prevents respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants was about 66% effective at protecting against RSV-associated respiratory illness, and about 69% effective at protecting against severe disease, according to a study in the New England Journal of (...)
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For some individuals, post–COVID-19 condition, or long COVID, can result in symptoms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction, such as a heart palpitations and lightheadedness that occur when standing up, and fatigue. Together, these symptoms are known as postural orthostatic tachycardia (...)
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Experts have predicted that large language models, or LLMs, could help tackle physician burnout by offloading administrative tasks, such as answering questions in patient portals. Recently, a 5-week study involving 162 clinicians who worked in primary care, gastroenterology, and hepatology (...)
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Limiting time spent eating to an 8-hour window or less each day—a type of so-called intermittent fasting—was linked with a 91% increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease compared with eating throughout a 12- to 16-hour period, according to preliminary observational data presented at (...)
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About 11% of US children aged 5 to 17 years have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), based on data from the National Health Interview Survey conducted between 2020 and 2022. This survey confirms estimates from earlier reports.
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More than 3 billion people—about 43% of the global population—lived with neurological conditions in 2021, according to results from the Global Burden of Disease Study published in The Lancet Neurology. Although this represented an 18.2% increase from 1990, once researchers adjusted for age, (...)
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This Medical News article discusses research initiatives to support produce prescriptions and other “food is medicine” nutrition programs in health care settings.
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This Medical News article discusses an intervention that uses empathy to address vaccine hesitancy in the clinic.
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This Diagnostic Test Interpretation uses a patient case to illustrate tilt table testing, useful for evaluating patients with syncope of unknown cause or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
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Few, indeed, are the physicians who do not now and then advise a patient to make a change of climate. However difficult it might be to justify such a recommendation in every instance, or even in most cases, on the basis of precise physiologic knowledge or strictly scientific therapeutic (...)
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This JAMA Patient Page describes the types of flat head syndrome and its prevention and treatment.
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In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatric critical care physician mulls a discussion about a patient’s status with a male colleague in front of her all-female medical team, a discussion that led her to question herself until she concludes that she can’t be all things to all people at all times.
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The Original Investigation titled “Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection,” published in the June 13, 2023, issue of JAMA, has been corrected to include additional consortium authors and nonauthor collaborator names in a supplement.
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This JAMA Insights in the Women’s Health series discusses the incidence, diagnosis, and treatment of uterine fibroids.
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This study examines whether payments from a left ventricular assist device manufacturer to cardiologists performing percutaneous coronary intervention were associated with any use of the devices.
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This cohort study characterizes heterogeneity in cardiac function prior to sepsis and describes associations with hospitalization outcomes and mortality.
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This review summarizes current evidence regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of systemic lupus erythematosus.
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02:00Data Checks Before Registering Study Protocols for Health Care Database Analyses J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This Viewpoint discusses the challenges involved with secondary health care data collection vs primary data collection and provides a list of suggested data checks before registration of a study protocol using secondary data.
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02:00Clinical Benefit and Regulatory Outcomes of Cancer Drugs Receiving Accelerated Approval J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)This study aims to determine whether cancer drugs granted accelerated approval from the US Food and Drug Administration ultimately demonstrate clinical benefit and to evaluate the basis of conversion to regular approval.
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The introduction of prostate-specific antigen (PSA)–based screening for prostate cancer in the early 1990s was followed by a nearly 2-decade long decline in prostate cancer metastasis and mortality. However, clinical trial data revealed that screening was associated with substantial harms. (...)
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This preliminary descriptive report compares the detection rates of high-grade and low-grade prostate cancer in men invited for prostate cancer screening vs those of the control group not offered screening.
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This secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial assesses whether screening for prostate-specific antigen reduces prostate cancer mortality at 15-year follow-up.
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Over the past year, JAMA editors have been developing the concept of the JAMA Summit—forums for catalyzing discussion and action on pressing issues in science, medicine, and public health. Over its more than 140-year history, JAMA has been a leader in publishing on critical issues related to (...)
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In the Editorial titled “Shedding Patterns of Genital Herpes Simplex Virus Infections,” published online on October 22, 2022, and in the November 1, 2022, issue of JAMA, Dr Whitley omitted potential conflict of interest disclosures. The disclosure statement has been corrected to include (...)
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To the Editor A recent study suggested clinical benefits of noninvasive airway management in comatose patients with acute poisoning. An accompanying editorial lauded the study as a practice-changing trial providing rigorous evidence. Although we have recommended against indiscriminate (...)
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To the Editor We read with interest the recent article that reported among comatose patients with suspected acute poisoning, a conservative strategy of withholding intubation was associated with a greater clinical benefit for the composite end point of in-hospital death, length of ICU stay, (...)
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To the Editor A recent study reported that withholding intubation among patients with acute poisoning and coma, defined by a GCS score of up to 8, was safe and led to lower rates of ICU admission and adverse events.
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To the Editor We read with great interest the recent study about the effect of noninvasive airway management of comatose patients with acute poisoning, but are concerned about potential issues related to selection bias, confounding factors, and the unblinded study design that might have biased (...)
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In Reply In response to our recent article, Dr Schober and colleagues suggest that reduction of length of stay in the ICU and hospital may not be considered a clinically relevant outcome. However, in the context of stretched resources and ICU bed shortages, we believe this is an important end (...)
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02:00Metformin Plus Insulin for Preexisting Diabetes or Gestational Diabetes in Pregnancy J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)To the Editor The MOMPOD study revealed that for pregnant individuals with preexisting type 2 or early gestational diabetes, metformin, 1000 mg twice daily, starting before 23 weeks’ gestation and taken until delivery, did not reduce a composite adverse neonatal outcome but resulted in reduced (...)
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02:00Metformin Plus Insulin for Preexisting Diabetes or Gestational Diabetes in Pregnancy—Reply J Am Med Assoc (JAMA)In Reply We thank Drs Pourkarim and Entezari-Maleki for their thoughtful comment about our recent study that described outcomes following metformin plus insulin for the treatment of early gestational and preexisting type 2 diabetes in pregnancy. We agree that based on available data, the use (...)
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This Viewpoint describes implications for medicine and public health if the US Supreme Court decides to overturn or narrow Chevron deference.
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This Viewpoint describes how the overturning of Chevron deference would shift the ability to make policy decisions about public health and the environment from administrative agencies to the courts.