This study reviewed public comments for all Medicare National Coverage Determinations between June 2019 and 2022 on select pulmonary and cardiac devices to determine whether financial conflicts of interest were disclosed.
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This Viewpoint examines the significant gap in knowledge regarding the effects of cannabis use on perinatal health outcomes.
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In recent years, an increasing number of people in Florida have been diagnosed with leprosy who don’t have a history of risk factors for typical transmission routes. These routes include travel to areas where the condition is widespread or contact with armadillos, which may harbor the infection-causing Mycobacterium leprae. Leprosy diagnoses in people born outside the US have also been decreasing.
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The cancer detection rate was similar when artificial intelligence (AI) worked in combination with a radiologist to analyze and triage mammography screening images compared with when 2 breast radiologists read the images, according to an interim safety analysis of data from more than 80 000 participants in a randomized trial.
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Walking at a slow pace for 25 minutes each day may be the lowest dose of physical activity older hospitalized patients need to mitigate the negative effects of bed rest and reduce later adverse events such as readmissions.
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This JAMA Patient Page describes current medications available for outpatient treatment of COVID-19 (nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, remdesivir, and molnupiravir), their effectiveness, and how to obtain them.
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This Medical News article discusses new research that may explain why type A blood has been linked with a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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In this narrative medicine essay, a current program director who entered medicine-pediatrics residency the year work-hours were capped and heard worried remarks about the quality of training residents would receive now hears the same worries expressed after residents voted to unionize at her hospital.
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This Viewpoint discusses what higher education institutions can learn from UC Davis when it comes to ensuring equity for their students now that the US Supreme Court has eliminated race-conscious college admissions.
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The transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care has been forecast for decades, but only recently have technological advances appeared to capture some of the complexity of health and disease and how health care is delivered. Recent emergence of large language models (LLMs) in highly visible and interactive applications has ignited interest in how new AI technologies can improve medicine and health for patients, the public, clinicians, health systems, and more. The rapidity of these developments, their potential impact on health care, and JAMA’s mission to publish the best science that advances medicine and public health compel the journal to renew its commitment to facilitating the rigorous scientific development, evaluation, and implementation of AI in health care.
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