JAMA Medical News

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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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JAMA Medical News episodes:

04.26.2024
April 26, 2024, Medical News Summary
An Explosion of Food Is Medicine Research Could Change Health Care; Blockbuster Obesity Drugs Have Potential New Uses Related Content: Could GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Like Semaglutide Treat Addiction, Alzheimer Disease, and Other Conditions? Produce Prescriptions Sound Good, but...
04.19.2024
Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2024 Scientific Session
Douglas Drachman, MD, shares late-breaking research from the annual conference of the American College of Cardiology and World Congress of Cardiology in an interview with JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi. Dr Drachman—who chaired this year’s conference—is an interventional cardiologist...
04.12.2024
April 12, 2024 Medical News Summary
Momentum Grows for Disaggregated Asian American Health Data; What Clinicians Need to Know About TikTok Related Content: Researchers Are Working to Disaggregate Asian American Health Data—Here’s Why It’s Long Overdue Patients Are Turning to TikTok for Health Information—Here’s...
04.05.2024
AI and Clinical Practice: Using AI to Increase Access to Reliable Health Information
Could generative AI assist in extending access to vulnerable populations and begin to bridge the gap in disparities? In this Q&A;, Davey Smith, MD, MAS, an infectious disease specialist and virologist at the University of California, San Diego, joins JAMA's...
03.29.2024
March 2024 Medical News Summary
Measles Is Spreading Again in the US; Questions Surround Blood Tests That Claim to Screen for Multiple Cancers; Study Provides Insight Into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Related Content: Measles Cases Are Spreading in the US—Here’s What to Know...
03.22.2024
AI and Clinical Practice—The Potential for AI to Enable Speech and Facilitate Full Expression for Individuals With Brain Injuries
AI can understand brain signals linked to the sensory and motor processes involved in speech. In this Q&A;, Edward Chang, MD, the chair and professor of neurosurgery at UCSF joins JAMA's Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to...
03.06.2024
AI and Clinical Practice—How AI Could Advance Human Heart Discoveries and Improve Care
Can AI enhance the speed and efficiency of interpreting ultrasounds and echocardiograms, thereby minimizing diagnostic errors? In this Q&A;, Rima Arnaout, MD, a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, joins JAMA's Editor in Chief...
03.01.2024
February 2024 Medical News Summary
Rural Maternity Care Is in Crisis—Here’s What Could Help; Type and Severity of Immunodeficiency Affect Speed of SARS-CoV-2 Clearance, Study Finds Related Content: More Than Half of US Rural Hospitals No Longer Offer Birthing Services—Here’s Why When It...
02.28.2024
AI and Clinical Practice: Automation Bias and Short Cuts in Clinical AI Models
Automation bias and shortcuts in clinical AI models have posed significant challenges. In this Q&A;, Jenna Wiens, PhD, an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, joins JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten...
02.07.2024
AI and Clinical Practice—AI and the Ethics of Developing and Deploying Clinical AI Models
AI in clinical practice needs ethical frameworks to avert future biases. In this Q&A;, Marzyeh Ghassemi, PhD, the Herman L. F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), joins JAMA's Editor in Chief...
01.31.2024
January 31, 2024, Medical News Summary
What the Latest Research Says About Paxlovid; People Are Using Potentially Dangerous “Trip-Killers” to Counter Psychedelics; Social Media Affects Youth Mental Health—Here’s What Could Help Related Content: Paxlovid Is Effective but Underused—Here’s What the Latest Research Says About...
01.24.2024
AI and Clinical Practice—Discovery and Scaling Findings From Large, Multicenter Health Care Datasets
How can we leverage AI to transform health care into a more efficient model for delivering care? In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, interviews Atul Butte, MD, PhD, the director of the Bakar Computational...
01.24.2024
January 24, 2024, Medical News Summary
After a Decade, Goodbye to the Pooled Cohort Equations? Experts Tackle Racial Bias in Clinical Algorithms; How COVID-19 Might Be Tied to Other Respiratory Disease Outbreaks Related Content: What to Know About PREVENT, the AHA’s New Cardiovascular Disease...
01.03.2024
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Monitoring to Reduce Data-Based Disparities
Amid the surging buzz around artificial intelligence (AI), can we trust the Al hype, and more importantly, are we ready for its implications? In this Q&A;, Arvind Narayanan, PhD, a professor of computer science at Princeton, joins JAMA's Editor in...
12.28.2023
December 2023 Medical News Summary
The Next Generation of COVID-19 Vaccines May Be Inhaled; Does Paxlovid Prevent Long COVID? Apply to the Morris Fishbein Fellowship in Medical Editing. Related Content: Up the Nose and Down the Windpipe May Be the Path to New...
12.20.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Guardrails: The US Executive Order and the Need for Global Harmonization
Artificial intelligence holds the promise of revolutionizing disease diagnosis and prediction, but it also presents a pivotal challenge: ensuring equity. In this Q&A;, Alondra Nelson, PhD, the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, joins JAMA's Editor...
12.13.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—the AI Health Care Goal for Patient Care
In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, interviews John Ayers, PhD, MA, vice chief of innovation in the Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health, deputy director of informatics in the Altman Clinical and...
11.30.2023
November 2023 Medical News Summary
Why Physicians Don’t Deprescribe Medicines; What to Know About Wegovy’s Rare but Serious Adverse Effects; What to Know About Zepbound, the Newest Antiobesity Drug Related Content: As Semaglutide’s Popularity Soars, Rare but Serious Adverse Effects Are Emerging FDA...
11.22.2023
Highlights from AHA 2023—New Risk Calculator, Semaglutide and CVD, and More
JAMA Associate Editor Gregory Marcus, MD, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, speaks with American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2023 conference chair Amit Khera, MD, MSc, a professor in the department of internal...
11.15.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—the Learning Health System and AI
In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, interviews Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD, professor of medicine at Stanford University and chief data scientist at Stanford Health Care, to discuss how large language models are reshaping medicine...
11.08.2023
Highlights From Infectious Diseases Week 2023
New vaccines, artificial intelligence, antimicrobial resistance, and more—JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, speaks with IDWeek 2023 cochair Col Heather Yun, USAF, MC. The infectious disease physicians discuss clinical highlights from the conference. Related Content: Highlights From...
11.02.2023
Highlights From Gastroenterology Week 2023
JAMA Associate Editor John M. Inadomi, MD, discusses clinical highlights from United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Week with UEG president Helena Cortez-Pinto, MD, PhD. Related Content: Highlights From Gastroenterology Week: New Crohn Disease Drug, Redefining Liver Disease, and More...
11.01.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—Predictive AI and Early Clinical Detection
AI has potential to meaningfully improve patient care. How will AI advances help clinicians focus on the best use of their time and talents? In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, interviews Suchi Saria, PhD,...
10.31.2023
October 2023 Medical News Summary
Who Should Get the New Alzheimer Disease Drug? Could Universal Donor Blood Be Made in the Lab? More Than 1 in 4 Nurses Say They Plan to Leave Health Care Related Content: Who Should—and Can—Get Lecanemab, the New...
10.25.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—Can AI Accelerate Medical Education?
In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, and Bernard S. Chang, MD, MMSc, a neurologist and dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School, discuss how AI will change medical education, admissions, and teaching the...
10.18.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—Building Patient and Clinician Trust in a Health Care System
In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, talks with Andrew Bindman, MD, an internist and the executive vice president and chief medical officer for Kaiser Permanente, about AI implementation and the importance of building trust...
10.11.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—Improving Health Care Quality and Equity
In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, interviews Kedar S. Mate, MD, an internal medicine physician, President and Chief Executive Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College, to discuss...
10.04.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—the Potential to Reduce Clinician Burden and Streamline Health Systems
In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, and Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, the David L. Cohen and Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor of Pediatrics, Informatics, Engineering, and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, discuss...
09.29.2023
September 2023 Medical News Summary
Should Consumers Buy a Blood Test to Evaluate Their Alzheimer Disease Risk; How Wildfire Smoke Harms Health Related Content: Consumers Can Now Buy a Blood Test to Evaluate Their Alzheimer Disease Risk, but Should They? Raging Wildfires Are...
09.27.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—the Potential for AI to Augment Humanity in Medicine
In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, and Ida Sim, MD, PhD, a primary care physician and UCSF’s Chief Research Informatics Officer, discuss generative AI, large language models, and the ways in which AI could...
09.20.2023
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Gaslighting, AI Hallucinations, and GenAI Potential
In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, interviews Michael Howell, MD, MPH, a pulmonologist and chief clinical officer at Google, to discuss the evolution of AI and what we should expect next for AI and...
09.06.2023
Climate Change and Health
Many health care professionals are already dealing with the effects of climate change. In this Q&A;, the World Health Organization’s first-ever Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, joins JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi to...
08.30.2023
August 2023 Medical News Summary
What to Know About the First Pill Approved for Postpartum Depression; Will the Updated COVID Vaccines Protect Against the New Variant? CDC Assesses Risk From BA.2.86, Highly Mutated COVID-19 Variant Related Content: A Fast-Acting Pill Received Approval for...
08.01.2023
July 2023 Medical News Summary
Treating Long COVID’s Mental Health Symptoms in Primary Care; This Fall’s COVID-19 Vaccine Will Target Omicron XBB Subvariants—Who Needs to Get It; Avian Influenza Update Related Content: HHS Urges Primary Care Clinicians to Help Patients Manage Long COVID’s...
07.12.2023
Highlights From the American Diabetes Association Scientific Session 2023
Data on a new crop of hormone analogues for weight loss—including an oral version of semaglutide and the triple agent retatrutide—were recently presented at the American Diabetes Association’s annual Scientific Sessions. Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD, the ADA’s chief scientific and...
07.03.2023
Worsening US Maternal Death Rates
The 2021 US maternal mortality rate is more than 10 times the rate of other high-income countries, according to a March 2023 CDC report. In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, is joined by Monica...
06.27.2023
June 2023 Medical News Summary
Sugar Substitutes Don’t Help Weight Control and May Increase Risk of Heart Disease and Diabetes, WHO Warns; Social Media and the Youth Mental Health Crisis Related Content: Sugar Substitutes Don’t Help Weight Control and May Increase Risk of...
06.21.2023
Highlights From the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
JAMA Deputy Editor and JAMA Oncology Editor Mary (Nora) L. Disis, MD, speaks with Kimmie Ng, MD, MPH, chair of the meeting’s Scientific Program Committee and associate chief of the Division of Gastrointestinal Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Related...
06.07.2023
Highlights From the American Thoracic Society 2023 Conference
JAMA Senior Editor Kristin L. Walter, MD, MS, speaks with Debra Boyer, MD, MHPE, about important research studies and keynote addresses presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in May 2023. Dr Boyer is a pediatric pulmonologist and chief...
05.31.2023
May 2023 Medical News Summary
What Clinicians Need to Know About “Tranq”; As Laws Restricting Health Care Surge, Some US Physicians Choose Between Fight or Flight Related Content: As Laws Restricting Health Care Surge, Some US Physicians Choose Between Fight or Flight Here’s...
05.10.2023
Live From the 2023 American Academy of Neurology Conference
JAMA Fishbein Fellow Revital Marcus, MD, talks with American Academy of Neurology president-elect and meeting science committee chair Natalia Rost, MD, about hot topics at this year’s conference in Boston, including new Alzheimer disease drugs, long COVID and the central...
05.03.2023
Highlights From ECCMID, Europe’s Largest Infectious Diseases Conference
More than 14 000 infectious diseases physicians, clinical microbiologists, and public health professionals gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April for the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Europe’s largest infectious diseases conference. In this Medical News Q&A;,...
04.28.2023
April 2023 Medical News Summary
As Ozempic’s Popularity Soars, Here’s What to Know About Semaglutide and Weight Loss; Implementation Science Seeks to Translate Research Into Practice; What a Study of Hibernating Bears Tells Us About Deep Vein Thrombosis Related Content: As Ozempic’s Popularity...
03.28.2023
March 2023 Medical News Summary
Physicians Say an Idaho House Bill That Would Criminalize Administering mRNA Vaccines Is an Attack on the Medical Profession—Even If It Doesn’t Become Law; The Debate Over Whether to Make Daylight Saving or Standard Time Permanent; Expanded Family Leave Policies...
03.27.2023
Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2023 Scientific Session
JAMA Medical News Senior Staff Writer Melissa Suran, PhD, MSJ, speaks with Douglas Drachman, MD, about late-breaking research discussed at the annual conference of the American College of Cardiology and World Congress of Cardiology. Dr Drachman—who chaired this year’s conference—is...
03.09.2023
Eliminating Hepatitis C in the United States
More than 2 million individuals in the US are chronically infected with hepatitis C, and nearly 15 000 die every year. Antivirals are available but are not reaching the majority of infected individuals. In this Q&A;, JAMA Editor in Chief...
03.01.2023
Live From CROI, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Conference clinical cochair Diane Havlir, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, sits down with JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, about research highlights presented at the 30th annual CROI, held in Seattle. The...
02.28.2023
February 2023 Medical News Summary
Bird Flu Has Begun to Spread in Mammals—Here’s What’s Important to Know; Questions Remain About What Should Go Into Annual COVID-19 Vaccines; Long COVID Linked With Unemployment in New Analysis; As Superbugs Flourish, Bacteriophage Therapy Recaptures Researchers’ Interest. Related...
02.22.2023
Revisiting Phage Therapy for Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
We’re revisiting this 2017 episode—with updates! The episode is an interview with Robert T. "Chip" Schooley, MD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at the University of California, San Diego, and codirector...
02.01.2023
January 2023 Medical News Summary
Large Cohort Study Finds Possible Association Between Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and COVID-19 Vaccination but Far Stronger Link With SARS-CoV-2 Infection; From Thought to Text: How an Endovascular Brain-Computer Interface Could Help Patients With Severe Paralysis Communicate Related Content:...

What's JAMA Medical News about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

JAMA Medical News episodes:

April 26, 2024, Medical News Summary

Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2024 Scientific Session

April 12, 2024 Medical News Summary

AI and Clinical Practice: Using AI to Increase Access to Reliable Health Information

March 2024 Medical News Summary

AI and Clinical Practice—The Potential for AI to Enable Speech and Facilitate Full Expression for Individuals With Brain Injuries

AI and Clinical Practice—How AI Could Advance Human Heart Discoveries and Improve Care

February 2024 Medical News Summary

AI and Clinical Practice: Automation Bias and Short Cuts in Clinical AI Models

AI and Clinical Practice—AI and the Ethics of Developing and Deploying Clinical AI Models

January 31, 2024, Medical News Summary

AI and Clinical Practice—Discovery and Scaling Findings From Large, Multicenter Health Care Datasets

January 24, 2024, Medical News Summary

AI and Clinical Practice—AI Monitoring to Reduce Data-Based Disparities

December 2023 Medical News Summary

AI and Clinical Practice—AI Guardrails: The US Executive Order and the Need for Global Harmonization

AI and Clinical Practice—the AI Health Care Goal for Patient Care

November 2023 Medical News Summary

Highlights from AHA 2023—New Risk Calculator, Semaglutide and CVD, and More

AI and Clinical Practice—the Learning Health System and AI

Highlights From Infectious Diseases Week 2023

Highlights From Gastroenterology Week 2023

AI and Clinical Practice—Predictive AI and Early Clinical Detection

October 2023 Medical News Summary

AI and Clinical Practice—Can AI Accelerate Medical Education?

AI and Clinical Practice—Building Patient and Clinician Trust in a Health Care System

AI and Clinical Practice—Improving Health Care Quality and Equity

AI and Clinical Practice—the Potential to Reduce Clinician Burden and Streamline Health Systems

September 2023 Medical News Summary

AI and Clinical Practice—the Potential for AI to Augment Humanity in Medicine

AI and Clinical Practice—AI Gaslighting, AI Hallucinations, and GenAI Potential

Climate Change and Health

August 2023 Medical News Summary

July 2023 Medical News Summary

Highlights From the American Diabetes Association Scientific Session 2023

Worsening US Maternal Death Rates

June 2023 Medical News Summary

Highlights From the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting

Highlights From the American Thoracic Society 2023 Conference

May 2023 Medical News Summary

Live From the 2023 American Academy of Neurology Conference

Highlights From ECCMID, Europe’s Largest Infectious Diseases Conference

April 2023 Medical News Summary

March 2023 Medical News Summary

Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2023 Scientific Session

Eliminating Hepatitis C in the United States

Live From CROI, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections

February 2023 Medical News Summary

Revisiting Phage Therapy for Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

January 2023 Medical News Summary