LAURA H. CYPHERS

This Viewpoint discusses how patient assistance programs help patients pay for expensive name-brand drugs, which help ensure profit, and recommends anti-kickback statutes be used to ensure the programs help those most in need.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Medical News feature discusses the current thinking about convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19.
Source: JAMA Online First

This JAMA Patient Page describes acute cholecystitis and its risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment.
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This nationwide registry data study from Norway assesses the secondary attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 variants Delta and Omicron in an effort to estimate the transmissibility of the Omicron variant.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Arts and Medicine feature reintroduces 2 modernist classical music pieces composed in the 1980s for physician audiences that express key themes from the Oath of Hippocrates.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Viewpoint reviews the regulatory oversight of laboratory-developed tests, discusses its recent policy permutations, and explores potential future considerations.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Viewpoint examines approaches to addressing uncertainty as a means of achieving diagnostic excellence.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Viewpoint discusses the diagnosis of hearing loss, the use of hearing-assisted devices, and the effects of disability and proposes an action plan of measures to help address hearing loss and its consequences.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Medical News article discusses increased risks for cardiovascular disease outcomes 1 year after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Source: JAMA Online First

This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods discusses the basics of causal directed acyclic graphs, which are useful tools for communicating researchers’ understanding of the potential interplay among variables and are commonly used for mediation analysis.
Source: JAMA Online First