This article summarizes the recent update of guidelines on health care for transgender and gender diverse people, including primary care, gender-affirming care, mental health care, and education of the clinical workforce.
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This article summarizes the recent update of guidelines on health care for transgender and gender diverse people, including primary care, gender-affirming care, mental health care, and education of the clinical workforce.
Source: JAMA Online First
This Viewpoint explains the “legal limbo” physicians may find themselves in, straddling state laws banning gender-affirming care and federal nondiscrimination law, both of which remain unclear due to ongoing legal challenges in the courts.
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A new advisory from US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, highlights the high prevalence of loneliness—which affected about 50% of US adults in recent years—as a pressing public health issue and calls for renewed efforts to facilitate social connection.
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The amount of competition between health insurers in a given US state was linked to the negotiated prices they paid hospitals, according to an analysis of cost data from 1446 acute care hospitals made available after the federal Hospital Price Transparency rule went into effect in 2021.
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One-time screening of young adults for 3 conditions—Lynch syndrome, hereditary breast and ovarian syndrome, and familial hypercholesterolemia—would likely be cost-effective compared with only testing patients deemed “high-risk” because of their family histories, according to an analysis of hypothetical cohorts of 100 000 people aged 20 to 60 years.
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Activity in the brain can surge during cardiac arrest, according to a small study. High-frequency brain waves and gamma connectivity in a posterior cortical “hot zone” for consciousness increased in the brains of 2 of 4 patients after life support was removed with their families’ consents, mirroring patterns of activation that researchers have observed in people who are awake or dreaming.
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In this Medical News article, 13 physicians and health care experts spoke with JAMA about the increasing efforts to criminalize evidence-based medical care in the US.
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The Special Communication titled “The Economic Burden of Racial, Ethnic, and Educational Health Inequities in the US” and the Editorial titled “The US Health Equity Crisis—An Economic Case for a Moral Imperative?,” published in the May 16, 2023, issue of JAMA, were corrected to fix rounding and data errors in the text and tables. The articles were corrected online.
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This Medical News story discusses a new study in JAMA Neurology that links exposure to contaminated drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune to an increased risk of Parkinson disease.
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In this narrative medicine essay, a family physician marks the moments of dread, fear, trauma, joy, and relief that began the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer to the more than 10 years of survival.
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