LAURA H. CYPHERS

This Medical News feature highlights some of the research presented recently at the Digestive Disease Week meeting
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This Viewpoint describes a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examining the response to the COVID-19 pandemic by the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, a division of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, using several key parameters.
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This Viewpoint examines diagnostic safety issues in various clinical scenarios across the care continuum, with selected examples illustrating successful strategies for improvement.
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This study models the amount of contrast that could be conserved in computed tomographic examinations in the context of the current a global shortage of iodinated contrast media.
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This JAMA Patient Page describes monkeypox infection, how it is spread, and its symptoms, treatment, and prevention measures.
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This Medical News feature discusses research presented at the recent ATS 2022 International Conference in San Francisco.
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This Medical News feature examines the unexpected phenomenon of symptoms and positive test results recurring in Paxlovid users who’d a few days earlier felt fine and tested negative.
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This Viewpoint discusses incorporating indoor air ventilation, filtration, and disinfection measures as part of community-level SARS-CoV-2 transmission reduction efforts.
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In this issue of JAMA, Gutiérrez et al explore how estimated racial differences in risk of kidney failure and mortality differ when race is eliminated from kidney function estimating equations and cystatin C is added. This important work follows vigorous recent national discourse, led by a National Kidney Foundation and American Society of Nephrology (NKF-ASN) Task Force, which in 2021 recommended the removal of Black race coefficients from kidney function estimating equations. The widely used Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation, developed in 2009, and its predecessor the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation, developed in 1999, on which much of the national debate was focused, were developed to improve and standardize estimates of glomerular filtration rate for clinical practice and research. Black race coefficients were incorporated into these equations to account for systematic differences in serum creatinine values observed in data obtained from Black individuals when compared with others participating in research studies.
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This individual-level data analysis assesses whether estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equations with and without race and cystatin C document racial differences in the risk of kidney failure with replacement therapy (KFRT) and mortality in populations including Black and non-Black participants.
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