LAURA H. CYPHERS

In this Viewpoint, author Jerry Gurwitz discusses the attrition of geriatric medicine as a profession, attributing it in part to societal attitudes about aging and compounded by the negative effects of lower compensation and lack of career prestige.
Source: JAMA Online First

This study compares postgraduate trainee racial, ethnic, and gender representation and faculty compensation for 21 clinical specialties using 2015-2022 data.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Viewpoint discusses the need for modernized national and program-level policies that foster a culture to support early-career physicians balancing their professional growth and personal family desires.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Viewpoint discusses the possible harms associated with direct-to-consumer polygenic risk scores and advocates for federal regulation.
Source: JAMA Online First

A new treatment for narcolepsy improved people’s ability to stay awake and reduced their weekly episodes of cataplexy, or sudden muscle weakness, compared with placebo, according to results from an 8-week clinical trial that included 73 participants. Currently, people with narcolepsy manage their condition with multiple medications that often do not control all their symptoms.
Source: JAMA Online First

A reduced sense of smell and the presence in cerebrospinal fluid of α-synuclein, a protein that can aggregate to form the characteristic pathology of Lewy body disease, a type of dementia, was tied to later diagnosis with the condition, according to research published in Nature Medicine involving 1182 participants without cognitive or neurological impairment.
Source: JAMA Online First

Medicare coverage of computed tomography (CT) colonography might help reduce income-related disparities in beneficiaries’ adherence to colorectal cancer screening guidelines, according to data from nearly 2.5 million adults enrolled in the Medicare fee-for-service program.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Medical News article discusses the discovery of a possible genetic predisposition to asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Medical News article discusses concern over a “paused” program that would have funded research into countering health misinformation.
Source: JAMA Online First

This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods discusses the early stopping of clinical trials for futility due to lack of evidence supporting the desired benefit, evidence of harm, or practical issues that make successful completion unlikely.
Source: JAMA Online First