JAMA Medical News
188 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 56 ratingsDiscussions 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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April 26, 2024, Medical News Summary
April 26, 2024 15:00 - 20 minutes - 46.9 MBAn 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 Data to Support Them Are Lacking—That Could Soon Change
Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2024 Scientific Session
April 19, 2024 16:00 - 20 minutes - 46 MBDouglas 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 at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is also director of education in the cardiology division. Related Content: Clinical Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2024 Scientific...
April 12, 2024 Medical News Summary
April 12, 2024 15:00 - 13 minutes - 30.5 MBMomentum 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 What Clinicians Need to Know
AI and Clinical Practice: Using AI to Increase Access to Reliable Health Information
April 05, 2024 15:00 - 17 minutes - 40.1 MBCould 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 Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to explore the implications of large language models for improving patient outcomes. Related Content: Will Generative AI Tools Improve Access to Reliable Health Information?
March 2024 Medical News Summary
March 29, 2024 15:00 - 12 minutes - 28.8 MBMeasles 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 Questions Swirl Around Screening for Multiple Cancers With a Single Blood Test NIH Study Provides Long-Awaited Insight Into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
AI and Clinical Practice—The Potential for AI to Enable Speech and Facilitate Full Expression for Individuals With Brain Injuries
March 22, 2024 15:00 - 21 minutes - 48.3 MBAI 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 discuss how AI has the potential to facilitate communication and how close AI development is to being able to translate human emotion. Related Content: Digital Avatars and Personalized Voices—How AI Is Helping to Restore Speech to Patients
AI and Clinical Practice—How AI Could Advance Human Heart Discoveries and Improve Care
March 06, 2024 16:00 - 17 minutes - 39.3 MBCan 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 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss the transformative impact of AI on cardiac imaging. Related Content: How Machine Learning Might Help Improve Cardiac Imaging
February 2024 Medical News Summary
March 01, 2024 16:00 - 13 minutes - 31.9 MBRural 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 Comes to SARS-CoV-2 Clearance, People Who Are Immunocompromised Are Not All Alike
AI and Clinical Practice: Automation Bias and Short Cuts in Clinical AI Models
February 28, 2024 16:00 - 28 minutes - 65.2 MBAutomation 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 Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss how we can start leveraging human collaboration with AI to provide more effective health care. Related Content: Blind Spots, Shortcuts, and Automation Bias—Researchers Are Aiming to Improve AI C...
AI and Clinical Practice—AI and the Ethics of Developing and Deploying Clinical AI Models
February 07, 2024 16:00 - 24 minutes - 55.7 MBAI 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 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss ethical machine learning and responsible clinical implementation. Related Content: AI Developers Should Understand the Risks of Deploying Their Clinical Tools, MIT Expert Says
January 31, 2024, Medical News Summary
January 31, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutes - 36.1 MBWhat 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 Rebound and More Study Finds Hundreds of Reddit Posts on “Trip-Killers” for Psychedelic Drugs Social Media Industry Standards Needed to Protect Adolescent Mental Health, Says National Academies
AI and Clinical Practice—Discovery and Scaling Findings From Large, Multicenter Health Care Datasets
January 24, 2024 16:00 - 21 minutes - 48.3 MBHow 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 Health Sciences Institute at UCSF, to discuss scalable privilege and the need for the broad distribution of AI-driven expertise. Related Content: “Scalable Privilege”—How AI Could Turn Data From the Best Medical Systems Into Better Care for All
January 24, 2024, Medical News Summary
January 24, 2024 16:00 - 21 minutes - 48.4 MBAfter 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 Risk Calculator Citing Harms, Momentum Grows to Remove Race From Clinical Algorithms From “Immunity Debt” to “Immunity Theft”—How COVID-19 Might Be Tied to Recent Respiratory Disease Surges
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Monitoring to Reduce Data-Based Disparities
January 03, 2024 16:00 - 25 minutes - 57.3 MBAmid 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 Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss the exploration of Al's fairness, transparency, and accountability. Related Content: How to Navigate the Pitfalls of AI Hype in Health Care
December 2023 Medical News Summary
December 28, 2023 16:00 - 14 minutes - 34.3 MBThe 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 and Improved COVID-19 Vaccines Studies Investigate Whether Antivirals Like Paxlovid May Prevent Long COVID The Morris Fishbein Fellowship in Medical Editing
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Guardrails: The US Executive Order and the Need for Global Harmonization
December 20, 2023 16:00 - 22 minutes - 51.4 MBArtificial 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 in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss the equitable regulation of AI to benefit all populations. Related Content: How Do Policymakers Regulate AI and Accommodate Innovation in Research and Medici...
AI and Clinical Practice—the AI Health Care Goal for Patient Care
December 13, 2023 16:00 - 20 minutes - 47.5 MBIn 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 Translational Research Institute, and affiliate scientist in the Qualcomm Institute, all at UC San Diego, to discuss how genAI programs like ChatGPT can increase communication pathways and improve patient outcomes. Related Content: How AI As...
November 2023 Medical News Summary
November 30, 2023 16:00 - 12 minutes - 28.3 MBWhy 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 Green-Lights Tirzepatide, Marketed as Zepbound, for Chronic Weight Management Deciding When It’s Better to Deprescribe Medicines Than to Continue Them
Highlights from AHA 2023—New Risk Calculator, Semaglutide and CVD, and More
November 22, 2023 16:00 - 21 minutes - 48.5 MBJAMA 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 medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the director of preventive cardiology. Related Content: Highlights From AHA 2023—New Risk Calculator, Semaglutide and CVD, and More
AI and Clinical Practice—the Learning Health System and AI
November 15, 2023 16:00 - 23 minutes - 54.1 MBIn 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 and the potential pitfalls of automation. Related Content: Clinical AI Tools Must Be Fed the Right Data, Stanford Health Care's Chief Data Scientist Says Creation and Adoption of Large Language Models in Medicine
Highlights From Infectious Diseases Week 2023
November 08, 2023 16:00 - 12 minutes - 27.5 MBNew 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 IDWeek 2023—New Vaccines, Artificial Intelligence, and Antimicrobial Resistance
Highlights From Gastroenterology Week 2023
November 02, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes - 27.6 MBJAMA 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
AI and Clinical Practice—Predictive AI and Early Clinical Detection
November 01, 2023 15:00 - 24 minutes - 55.6 MBAI 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, MSc, an associate professor in computer science at Johns Hopkins, to discuss how AI could streamline care. Related Content: Can Predictive AI Improve Early Detection of Sepsis and Other Conditions?
October 2023 Medical News Summary
October 31, 2023 15:00 - 16 minutes - 36.8 MBWho 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 Alzheimer Disease Drug? Could Universal Donor Blood Be Made in the Laboratory? Overworked and Understaffed, More Than 1 in 4 US Nurses Say They Plan to Leave the Profession
AI and Clinical Practice—Can AI Accelerate Medical Education?
October 25, 2023 15:00 - 21 minutes - 50.3 MBIn 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 future generation of physicians and clinicians. Related Content: AI Will—and Should—Change Medical School, Says Harvard’s Dean for Medical Education Transformation of Undergraduate Medical Education in 2023
AI and Clinical Practice—Building Patient and Clinician Trust in a Health Care System
October 18, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 58.3 MBIn 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 in a health care system. Related Content: Kaiser Permanente’s CMO: How AI Might Help Clinicians Address Patients’ Social Risk Factors
AI and Clinical Practice—Improving Health Care Quality and Equity
October 11, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 58.6 MBIn 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 AI’s role in health care quality and approaches to improving health equity. Related Content: New AI Tools Must Have Health Equity in Their DNA
AI and Clinical Practice—the Potential to Reduce Clinician Burden and Streamline Health Systems
October 04, 2023 15:00 - 22 minutes - 52.5 MBIn 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 how AI can reduce clinician burden and streamline health system functions. Related Content: Electronic Health Records Failed to Make Clinicians’ Lives Easier—Will AI Technology Succeed?
September 2023 Medical News Summary
September 29, 2023 15:00 - 11 minutes - 26 MBShould 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 Exposing More People to Smoky Air—Here’s What That Means for Health
AI and Clinical Practice—the Potential for AI to Augment Humanity in Medicine
September 27, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 68.7 MBIn 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 affect humanity in medicine. Related Content: The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in the Complex World of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Disease Management
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Gaslighting, AI Hallucinations, and GenAI Potential
September 20, 2023 15:00 - 22 minutes - 53 MBIn 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 health care. Related Content: Google Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Talks About Incorporating AI in Health Care
Climate Change and Health
September 06, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 57.6 MBMany 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 discuss how a changing climate and extreme weather events are impacting human health, what clinicians should expect in the years ahead, and how they can help protect patients—and the planet. Related Content: Critical Care Physic...
August 2023 Medical News Summary
August 30, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes - 29.2 MBWhat 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 Postpartum Depression—Is It a Game Changer? What to Know About EG.5, the Latest SARS-CoV-2 “Variant of Interest” CDC Assesses Risk From BA.2.86, Highly Mutated COVID-19 Variant
July 2023 Medical News Summary
August 01, 2023 15:00 - 15 minutes - 35.8 MBTreating 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 Mental Health Symptoms Vigilance Urged Against Bird Flu Amid Ongoing Outbreaks in Mammals This Fall’s COVID-19 Vaccines Will Target Omicron XBB Subvariants, but Who Needs Them Remains to Be Seen
Highlights From the American Diabetes Association Scientific Session 2023
July 12, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes - 28.9 MBData 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 medical officer, speaks with JAMA’s Jennifer Abbasi about this and other clinical data presented at the meeting. Related Content: New Weight Loss Drugs Make Headlines at Diabetes Meeting
Worsening US Maternal Death Rates
July 03, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutes - 77.6 MBThe 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 McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, University of Washington, Audra Meadows, MD, MPH, UC San Diego, and Joia Crear-Perry, MD, founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, to discuss these concerning numbers and why preventable death rates are worsening in t...
June 2023 Medical News Summary
June 27, 2023 15:00 - 10 minutes - 24.9 MBSugar 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 Heart Disease and Diabetes, WHO Warns Surgeon General Sounds the Alarm on Social Media Use and Youth Mental Health Crisis
Highlights From the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
June 21, 2023 15:00 - 21 minutes - 49.7 MBJAMA 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 Content: Highlights From the ASCO Annual Meeting—New Approaches to Cancers of the Blood, Brain, Lung, and More
Highlights From the American Thoracic Society 2023 Conference
June 07, 2023 15:00 - 8 minutes - 20.6 MBJAMA 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 medical education officer at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and was cochair of this year’s conference. Related Content: COPD Mortality, Goals-of-Care Conversations in Serious Illness, and Advocating for Clima...
May 2023 Medical News Summary
May 31, 2023 15:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBWhat 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 What to Know About Xylazine, aka Tranq, the Animal Tranquilizer Increasingly Found in Illicit Fentanyl Samples Risk of Parkinson Disease Among Camp Lejeune Veterans
Live From the 2023 American Academy of Neurology Conference
May 10, 2023 15:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBJAMA 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 nervous system, and a nasal spray for migraines. Related Content: New Alzheimer Disease Drugs, Long COVID and the Central Nervous System, and a Nasal Spray for Migraines—Highlights From the 2023 American Academy of Neuro...
Highlights From ECCMID, Europe’s Largest Infectious Diseases Conference
May 03, 2023 15:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBMore 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, JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ, discusses highlights from the congress with Jacob Moran-Gilad, MD, MPH, ECCMID program director. Related Content: Artificial Intelligence...
April 2023 Medical News Summary
April 28, 2023 15:00 - 16 minutes - 37.9 MBAs 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 Soars, Here’s What to Know About Semaglutide and Weight Loss It Takes an Average of 17 Years for Evidence to Change Practice—the Burgeoning Field of Implementation Science Seeks to Speed Things Up What a Study of Hibernating ...
March 2023 Medical News Summary
March 28, 2023 15:00 - 16 minutes - 38.6 MBPhysicians 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 May Ease Burden for Residents Related Content: 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 Groundswell Grows for Per...
Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2023 Scientific Session
March 27, 2023 22:00 - 18 minutes - 41.3 MBJAMA 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 an interventional cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is also director of education in the cardiology division. Related Content: Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2023 S...
Eliminating Hepatitis C in the United States
March 09, 2023 17:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBMore 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 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, discuss a plan to eliminate hepatitis C included in the Biden-Harris 2024 budget proposal. Related Content: A National Hepatitis C Elimination Program in the United States Eliminati...
Live From CROI, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
March 01, 2023 16:00 - 14 minutes - 33.9 MBConference 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 infectious disease experts discuss postexposure prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections, a new protease inhibitor for COVID-19, goals for preventing HIV transmission, and more. Related Content: Highlights From CROI, the Confer...
February 2023 Medical News Summary
February 28, 2023 16:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBBird 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 Content: Bird Flu Has Begun to Spread in Mammals—Here’s What’s Important to Know Questions Remain About What SARS-CoV-2 Variants Should Go Into the Annual COVID-19 Vaccines Proposed by the FDA Long COVID Li...
Revisiting Phage Therapy for Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
February 22, 2023 16:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBWe’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 of the school’s Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics. Dr Schooley discusses the unique events that led to the first use of intravenous phage therapy in North America. Stay tuned to the end for an update on phage the...
January 2023 Medical News Summary
February 01, 2023 16:00 - 12 minutes - 13.7 MBLarge 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: 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 ...