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Discussions of timely topics in clinical medicine, biomedical research, public health, health policy, and more, featured in the Medical News section of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Nov 22, 2021 • 30min
Highlights From the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2021
JAMA Medical News Associate Managing Editor Jennifer Abbasi talks with Manesh Patel, MD, about the latest trials and topics from the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions meeting. Patel is chief of the division of cardiology at Duke University School of Medicine and this year's Scientific Sessions conference chair. Related Content: Association of Apolipoprotein B–Containing Lipoproteins and Risk of Myocardial Infarction in Individuals With and Without Atherosclerosis Highlights From the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions—ApoB as a Risk Marker, an Oral PCSK9 Inhibitor, Aspirin and Dementia, and More Authors have declared conflicts of interest related to the article discussed in this podcast. Visit the article on jama.com for the complete disclosure.

Oct 26, 2021 • 21min
October 2021 Medical News Summary
COVID-19 Crisis Advances Efforts to Reimagine Nursing Homes; Moving COVID-19 Testing Out of the Clinic and Into the Home; The Lingua Franca of Addiction—Stigmatizing Words That Wound Related Content: COVID-19 Crisis Advances Efforts to Reimagine Nursing Homes COVID-19 Testing Moves Out of the Clinic and Into the Home The Lingua Franca of Addiction—Stigmatizing Words That Wound
Oct 6, 2021 • 25min
A New Vision for Nursing Homes
The longstanding shortcomings of the US nursing home model became more visible during the COVID-19 crisis. Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, a geriatric nurse practitioner and president of the John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City, discusses the challenges skilled nursing facilities face and shares her vision for nursing homes that better serve residents and support the workforce. Related Content: COVID-19 Crisis Advances Efforts to Reimagine Nursing Homes Socially Assistive Robots Help Patients Make Behavioral Changes

Sep 28, 2021 • 17min
September 2021 Medical News Summary
After Mildest Flu Season Ever, Influenza Experts Wonder What Comes Next; Why Farmworkers Need More Than New Laws for Protection From Heat-Related Illness; COVID-19 Sets Back Efforts to See the Person in the ICU Patient Related Content: After Mildest Flu Season Ever, Influenza Experts Wonder What Comes Next Why Farmworkers Need More Than New Laws for Protection From Heat-Related Illness How COVID-19 Made It Even Tougher to Know ICU Patients as Individuals
Sep 15, 2021 • 21min
Rebounding From COVID-19's Reversal of Recent Progress in the ICU
Many patients experience neurocognitive deficits, PTSD, and generalized weakness and disability following an intensive care unit (ICU) stay. JAMA Medical News Senior Writer Rita Rubin talks with E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, about ICU aftereffects, post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, and how the coronavirus pandemic, particularly hospitals' restrictions on visitors, impeded progress made since the 1990s in caring for the critically ill. Related Content: How COVID-19 Made It Even Tougher to Know ICU Patients as Individuals
Sep 10, 2021 • 16min
9/11 Responders' Health 20 Years Later, Part 2
More than half of the 80 000 emergency personnel, volunteers, and recovery and cleanup workers known to have responded to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash site near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, have at least 1 certified physical or mental health condition related to their exposures. First responder Terrence Jordan, a retired lieutenant with the Fire Department of the City of New York, shares his story. Related Content: Twenty Years After 9/11, Responders Are Still Healing 9/11 Responders' Health 20 Years Later, Part 1
Sep 3, 2021 • 25min
9/11 Responders' Health 20 Years Later, Part 1
More than half of the 80 000 emergency personnel, volunteers, and recovery and cleanup workers known to have responded to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash site near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, have at least 1 certified physical or mental health condition related to their exposures. Pulmonologist David Prezant, MD, chief medical officer for the Fire Department of the City of New York and a professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, shares his 9/11 story and updates us on how the responders are doing 20 years after the events. Related Content: Twenty Years After 9/11, Responders Are Still Healing 9/11 Responders' Health 20 Years Later, Part 2

Aug 24, 2021 • 15min
August 2021 Medical News Summary
FDA's Approval of New Alzheimer Drug Raises Many Questions; Überantibodies From Recovered COVID-19 Patients Could Spur New Therapeutics and Vaccines; Detecting Kids' Broken Hearts—Cardiac Screening Advised During Well-Child Visits Related Content: Recently Approved Alzheimer Drug Raises Questions That Might Never Be Answered Überantibodies From Recovered COVID-19 Patients Could Spur New Therapeutics and Vaccines Detecting Kids' Broken Hearts—Cardiac Screening Advised During Well-Child Visits

Jul 27, 2021 • 26min
July 2021 Medical News Summary
The Search for a Single Vaccine Against Coronaviruses Yet to Come; Semaglutide's Success Could Usher in a "New Dawn" for Obesity Treatment; Confronting High HIV Rates Among Transgender Women With Empowerment and Gender Affirmation. Related Content: The Search for a Single Vaccine Against Coronaviruses Yet to Come Semaglutide's Success Could Usher in a "New Dawn" for Obesity Treatment Confronting High HIV Rates Among Transgender Women With Empowerment and Gender Affirmation

Jun 22, 2021 • 19min
June 2021 Medical News Summary
Community-Based Organizations Step Up to Confront HIV in Southern States; Restrictive Policies Threaten Efforts to Stop 2 West Virginia HIV Outbreaks; Cystic Fibrosis Affects People of All Colors, Not Just Those Who Are White Related Content: Community-Based Organizations Step Up to Confront HIV in Southern States Restrictive Policies Threaten Efforts to Stop 2 West Virginia HIV Outbreaks Cystic Fibrosis Affects People of All Colors, Not Just Those Who Are White


