This Viewpoint discusses how consumer need, policy solutions, and the legislative environment around Medicare expansion to include dental, vision, and hearing services offer a rare window of opportunity for policy change.
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This Viewpoint discusses how consumer need, policy solutions, and the legislative environment around Medicare expansion to include dental, vision, and hearing services offer a rare window of opportunity for policy change.
Source: JAMA Online First
The Research Letter titled “Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies From a National Serosurveillance of Kenyan Blood Donors, January-March 2021,” published in the September 2, 2021, issue of JAMA, included an error in the list of members of the Kenya SARS-CoV-2 Serology Consortium. This included erroneously excluding John Gitonga and Daisy Mugo. The list of consortium members in the Additional Contributions has been updated to include all appropriate individuals. (All other information in the Additional Contributions was correct and is unchanged.)
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This Medical Letter review summarizes the use of Sutab, an oral tablet formulation of sodium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, and potassium chloride for colon cleansing prior to colonoscopy in adults
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In the JAMA Insights article titled “Novel Lipid-Lowering Therapies to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk,” published July 20, 2021, the dosing of inclisiran required clarification. The fourth sentence of the “Inclisiran” section that stated that inclisiran was dosed as “1 to 3 injections administered over a 3-month period, followed by dosing once every 6 months” should be replaced with “Clinical trials reveal durable 30% to 60% reductions in LDL-C.10 Inclisiran is dosed by injection at day 1 and day 90, followed by dosing once every 6 months.” This article was corrected online.
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This Viewpoint discusses protein folding and the use of computers to solve the protein folding problem along with the limitations of protein structure prediction and the practical benefits that may be yielded from the breakthrough discovery.
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This Viewpoint offers potential changes to improve the process of US Food and Drug Administration accelerated approval.
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This Viewpoint discusses SB8, the recent law passed in Texas that essentially prohibits abortion after 6 weeks of gestational age, and the effect this will have on persons seeking pregnancy termination as well as the future of constitutional protection of abortion services.
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This Medical News feature examines the growing use of over-the-counter rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, we highlighted the unprecedented promise and peril surrounding the quantity, quality, and integrity of scientific research. The pandemic has been a crash test for scientific publishing, emphasizing the great successes and failures, and the promise and perils of current systems. In 2020, because of the pandemic, we announced a postponement of the Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. We now confirm plans to hold the meeting September 8-10, 2022, and we announce the official call for abstracts.
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This study uses Medicare data to assess physician practice interruptions during the 2019-2020 period of the COVID-19 pandemic and provides preliminary evidence on whether those interruptions suggest early retirements or exit from medical practice.
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