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This Arts and Medicine feature discusses the continuing relevance of the 1983 poem Gaudeamus Igitur by John Stone, which offers wisdom and guiding principles about the practice of medicine to newly graduated young physicians.
Source: JAMA Online First
This Viewpoint looks at PEPFAR (the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) from its inception to today, including successes and goals for the future to help care for people worldwide living with HIV.
Source: JAMA Online First
This Viewpoint lists the top 3 pediatric drugs and product shortages, considers the federal government’s and manufacturers’ ethical duty to protect children, reviews the causes for the shortages, and suggests policy changes that could help fill in the gap.
Source: JAMA Online First
In this narrative medicine essay, an infectious diseases physician compares her past near bucolic experience in the emergency department when treated for anaphylactic with the now perpetually chaotic and crowded scene ushered in by COVID-19.
Source: JAMA Online First
This Viewpoint discusses the flawed assumptions and potential negative impacts of a proposed federal bill that would ban government health care programs from using the quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) and “similar measures” when determining insurance coverage or negotiating prices.
Source: JAMA Online First
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an extended-release buprenorphine injection, sold as Brixadi, as a treatment for moderate to severe opioid use disorder. The drug is available as a weekly or monthly formulation in varying doses, providing “a new option for people in recovery who may benefit from a weekly injection to maintain treatment adherence,” the FDA wrote in an announcement.
Source: JAMA Online First
Mortality or readmissions within 30 days as well as lengths of stays were no different among patients aged 65 years or older who received hospital care from allopathic physicians (MDs) compared with those treated by osteopathic physicians (DOs) after adjusting for patient and physician characteristics. Health care costs were also similar between the 2 groups, according to an analysis of 329 510 Medicare admissions. About 77% of patients were treated by an MD and about 23% were treated by a DO, all of whom were hospitalists.
Source: JAMA Online First
People with acute intracerebral hemorrhages who were treated with a “care bundle” that included fast lowering of systolic blood pressure, glucose control, fever management, and reversal of abnormal anticoagulation fared better than those receiving usual care, according to results from a phase 3 trial that included 7036 patients from 121 hospitals across 10 countries, the majority of which were low- or middle-income countries.
Source: JAMA Online First
This Medical News article discusses signs of an mpox resurgence and updated prevention and treatment information.
Source: JAMA Online First
This Medical News article is an interview with Debra Boyer, MD, MHPE, chair of the 2023 American Thoracic Society Conference.
Source: JAMA Online First