LAURA H. CYPHERS

This study assessed whether a third vaccine dose was associated with the risk of myocarditis among military personnel in Israel.
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This JAMA Medical News feature describes new research that found gender differences in the brains of children with autism spectrum disorder.
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This Medical News feature describes how war has challenged physicians in Ukraine.
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Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare, Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, discusses how to increase access to health care and improve delivery.
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This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods describes collider bias, illustrates examples in directed acyclic graphs, and explains how it can threaten the internal validity of a study and the accurate estimation of causal relationships in randomized clinical trials and observational studies.
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This randomized clinical trial compares the efficacy and adverse events of sotrovimab vs placebo in preventing progression of mild to moderate COVID-19 to severe disease.
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To the Editor In 2000, I published an article in the “A Piece of My Mind” section of JAMA that was a fictional story about an older Alaskan man. At the time, I erroneously thought creative liberties were acceptable in this section of the journal. In 2001, I became aware of this mischaracterization after an objection was raised and published a Letter in Reply with an explanation. In light of today’s focus on inclusion and with greater understanding of the effects even unintentional missteps may have on the experience of underrepresented and marginalized populations, I realize this article may have inadvertently reinforced stereotypes or mischaracterized Native American and Alaska Native individuals.
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This Viewpoint discusses how differing political priorities and economic circumstances across the 50 US states has led to the country’s fragmented health policy, widening the gap across the states in health outcomes and life expectancy.
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This Viewpoint discusses the generation of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern globally and the need for increased access to COVID-19 vaccination in Africa, particularly for people living with HIV and for households and people living in densely populated communities.
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A 33-year-old man with intermittent asthma presented with 3 months of dyspnea on exertion, which developed approximately 2 weeks after infection with SARS-CoV-2. The patient demonstrated reduced exercise tolerance during cardiopulmonary testing, achieving only 64% of the predicted maximum rate of oxygen consumption. How do you interpret these test results?
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