This Medical News feature is based on an interview with Robert Califf, MD, who began his second stint as FDA commissioner in February.
Source: JAMA Online First

This multicenter clinical trial investigated potential benefits of early vs standard tracheostomy in patients with severe stroke receiving mechanical ventilation.
Source: JAMA Online First

This JAMA Patient Page describes the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis.
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This observational study assesses the association of SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy with risk of adverse maternal outcomes and preterm birth among a population-level Canadian cohort.
Source: JAMA Online First

In this Viewpoint, authors from the FDA discuss how COVID-19 vaccination is an integral part of establishing a new normal, now that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, will likely circulate worldwide for the foreseeable future.
Source: JAMA Online First

In this narrative medicine essay, a primary care physician relates the complexity of routine patient visits that have been distrupted by the 2-year COVID-19 pandemic and shares how she has adapted her medical advice to addressing the stress and sorrow patients experience.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Viewpoint discusses moving beyond traditional food assistance programs in the US and the role of research in achieving nutrition security to identify evidence-based solutions and intersectoral actions to eliminate nutrition disparities.
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A man in his 60s had 4 months of fatigue, night sweats, weight loss, and tender, nonfluctuant plaques on his scalp and hands, with overlying hemorrhagic crust and necrosis on an erythematous indurated base; clinical evaluation showed pancytopenia, and an acute deep vein thrombosis involving the left common and external iliac veins and distal inferior vena cava. What is the diagnosis and what would you do next?
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In this Viewpoint, Berwick proposes the “Ten Teams” approach to improving social influences on health, with hospitals and health systems working to improve health care coverage, food insecurity, housing, education, and related factors.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Medical News feature discusses the status of people with compromised immune systems more than 2 years into the pandemic.
Source: JAMA Online First