JAMA Medical News
by JAMA NetworkDiscussions of timely topics in clinical medicine, biomedical research, public health, health policy, and more, featured in the Medical News section of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Copyright: American Medical Association, 2021
Episodes
An Inside Look at a Post–COVID-19 Clinic
24m · PublishedCOVID-19 leaves some people with a troubling constellation of symptoms that has been known as long-haul COVID but now has a more formal name: postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Currently, 33 states in the US have at least 1 clinic dedicated to caring for patients with PASC. Aluko Hope, MD, a pulmonary and critical care physician, cofounded the Montefiore-Einstein COVID-19 Recovery Clinic in New York in 2020. Now the medical director of the Long Covid-19 Program at the Oregon Health & Sciences University, Dr Hope provides insight into the care provided at a post-COVID-19 clinic.
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Neurologist Faces His Alzheimer Diagnosis Determined to Lessen Stigma Surrounding the Disease
21m · PublishedIn this Medical News podcast, Rita Rubin interviews retired neurologist Daniel Gibbs, MD, about his efforts to lessen the stigma surrounding Alzheimer disease, which he was diagnosed with 5 years ago.
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Neurologist Faces His Alzheimer Diagnosis Determined to Lessen Stigma Surrounding the Disease
April 2021 Medical News Summary
34m · PublishedHow Sharing Clinical Notes Affects the Patient-Physician Relationship; Experts Discuss COVID-19—Variants and Vaccine Efficacy, Immunosuppressed Patients, and More; The Push for Timely Follow-up After Abnormal At-home Colon Cancer Screening Results
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Experts Discuss COVID-19—Variants and Vaccine Efficacy, Immunosuppressed Patients, and More
The Push for Timely Follow-up After Abnormal At-home Colon Cancer Screening Results
A Partnership With the Cherokee Nation Advances Medical Education on Tribal Land
22m · PublishedIn this Medical News article, William Pettit, DO, dean of the new Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation, discusses how the first US medical school on tribal land came into being.
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March 2021 Medical News Summary
34m · PublishedThe Price of Success—How to Evaluate COVID-19 Vaccines When They’re Available Outside of Clinical Trials; When the Human Voice Speaks Volumes About Lung Function; COVID-19 Vaccines vs Variants—Determining How Much Immunity Is Enough
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When the Human Voice Speaks Volumes About Lung Function
COVID-19 Vaccines vs Variants—Determining How Much Immunity Is Enough
February 2021 Medical News Summary
23m · PublishedResearchers Investigate What COVID-19 Does to the Heart; “Important Conversations” Are Needed to Explain the Nocebo Effect; Therapists Donate Their Time to Counsel Distressed Health Care Workers
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“Important Conversations” Are Needed to Explain the Nocebo Effect
Therapists Donate Their Time to Counsel Distressed Health Care Workers
January 2021 Medical News Summary
23m · PublishedPandemic Spotlights In-home Colon Cancer Screening Tests; Does Vitamin D Deficiency Raise COVID-19 Risk?; COVID-19 Conspiracies and Beyond: How Physicians Can Deal With Patients’ Misinformation
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- COVID-19 Conspiracies and Beyond: How Physicians Can Deal With Patients’ Misinformation
Dermatologist Cares for People Experiencing Homelessness
17m · PublishedThe COVID-19 pandemic has presented new challenges to people experiencing homelessness because they can't easily practice mitigation measures such as frequent handwashing and social distancing. Jennifer Tan, MD, a Massachusetts General Hospital dermatologist who has been caring for Boston's homeless population for several years, helped assemble special care kits, which included hand sanitizer and masks as well as over-the-counter treatments for skin problems, for distribution in Boston and Portland, Maine.
COVID-19 Conspiracies and Beyond: How Physicians Can Deal With Patients’ Misinformation
32m · PublishedCommunication science expert Brian Southwell, PhD, recently launched a training workshop at the Duke University School of Medicine to address a major clinical problem: What should physicians do when patients are misinformed about their health? It’s one of only a few such programs in the nation. Southwell, a scholar with the medical school’s Social Science Research Institute and a senior director at the independent, nonprofit research institute RTI International, chatted with JAMA Medical News Associate Managing Editor Jennifer Abbasi about the viral spread of false health information and malicious disinformation campaigns, why we’re vulnerable to falling for them, and how time-pressed physicians can deal with all the noise.
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COVID-19 Conspiracies and Beyond: How Physicians Can Deal With Patients’ Misinformation
December 2020 Medical News Summary
15m · PublishedJAMA Network Articles of the Year 2020; Looking to Long-term Survivors for Improved Pancreatic Cancer Treatment; Musical Spine Surgeons Lift Spirits With Songs of Hope
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Musical Spine Surgeons Lift Spirits With Songs of Hope
JAMA Medical News has 188 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 65:28:45. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 27th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 21st, 2024 23:45.