LAURA H. CYPHERS

In this narrative medicine essay, a physician describes the importance of paying attention to the deliberate words patients choose and how physicians must seek to understand why they are chosen rather than translating those words to what they expect to hear.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Viewpoint discusses the growth of diagnostic stewardship beyond infectious disease to reduce diagnostic errors in other fields.
Source: JAMA Online First

After adjusting for maternal confounders, children born to mothers who continued to use attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications during pregnancy were no more likely to have neurodevelopmental disorders than those whose mothers discontinued use, according to a population-based cohort study published in Molecular Psychiatry.
Source: JAMA Online First

A normal gastrointestinal (GI) tract biopsy result might not eliminate an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) diagnosis, according to a population-based, sibling-controlled study published in PLOS Medicine.
Source: JAMA Online First

Manufacturers of most infant formulas claim a range of benefits, such as supporting infants’ brain and eye development, strengthening their immune systems, and easing digestion, based on an analysis of 757 products from 15 countries.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Medical News Q&A discusses research highlights from the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Medical News article discusses a new study in JAMA Surgery about outcome differences between women and men after the most common surgical treatment for coronary artery disease.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Medical News article is an interview about new policy from the US Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to address the harms of race-based kidney function estimation.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Viewpoint discusses how the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI)in its current form is not fit to guide kidney allocation because it devalues organ donation by Black donors based on a weak association between donor race and kidney transplant failure.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Viewpoint emphasizes the urgency of abolishing race-based medical practices and explains how they have unjustly contributed to racial inequities in clinical care and health outcomes.
Source: JAMA Online First