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
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Surgeon Creates Barrier-Free COVID-19 Testing Service for Philadelphia's Black Residents
29m · PublishedAla Stanford, MD, founder of Philadelphia's Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, talks with JAMA Medical News staff writer Mary Chris Jaklevic about her work to establish COVID-19 testing sites for the city's Black residents.
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Surgeon Fills COVID-19 Testing Gap in Philadelphia’s Black Neighborhoods
Q&A With Spine Surgeons Who Also Happen to be a Musical Duo
16m · PublishedJAMA sat down with Elvis Francois and William Robinson to talk about their unexpected fame as a musical duo. Videos of the 2 performing uplifting songs, with Francois on vocals and Robinson on the piano, have gone viral, leading the 2 spine surgery fellows to record an EP at a Nashville studio this past spring. They're donating all the proceeds from the successful EP to COVID-19-related charities.
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Musical Spine Surgeons Lift Spirits With Songs of Hope
November 2020 Medical News Summary
34m · PublishedCould Frequent Testing Help Squelch COVID-19?; Nursing Homes’ Next Test—Vaccinating Workers Against COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2 Testing Hesitancy Could Hamper Mitigation Efforts
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Live from AHA 2020: Highlights from the American Heart Association’s Virtual Scientific Sessions
38m · PublishedJAMA Medical News comes to you live from the American Heart Association’s first-ever virtual Scientific Sessions conference. Host Jennifer Abbasi chats with conference chair and AHA president-elect Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, about this year’s hottest clinical trials and themes: fish oil vs corn oil placebo for primary or secondary prevention; Polycap polypill with or without aspirin for primary prevention; statins, side effects, and the nocebo effect; ferric carboxymaltose iron infusion in acute heart failure; omecamtiv mecarbil, a novel cardiac myosin activator, in HFrEF; sotagliflozin, an SGLT2/1 inhibitor, in diabetes with recent worsening heart failure or in diabetes and chronic kidney disease; MINOCA’s underlying cause in women; rilonacept, an IL-1α and IL-1β Trap, in recurrent pericarditis; COVID-19’s cardiovascular effects, risk factors, and racial/ethnic disparities.
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October 2020 Medical News Summary
29m · PublishedLarge Meta-analysis Digs Into Obesity’s COVID-19 Risks; As Their Numbers Grow, COVID-19 “Long Haulers” Stump Experts; Telephone Visits Surge During the Pandemic, but Will They Last?
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Large Meta-analysis Digs Into Obesity’s COVID-19 Risks
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Telephone Visits Surge During the Pandemic, but Will They Last?
Digging Into Obesity’s COVID-19 Risks
25m · PublishedUniversity of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill nutrition scholar Barry Popkin, PhD, and JAMA Medical News Associate Managing Editor Jennifer Abbasi discuss new findings on obesity and COVID-19. Popkin is the lead author of a systematic review and meta-analysis on the topic that was published recently in Obesity Reviews. He is a distinguished professor in the department of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
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Large Meta-analysis Digs Into Obesity’s COVID-19 Risks
September 2020 Medical News Summary
34m · PublishedWhat Happens When COVID-19 Collides With Flu Season?; Flu Vaccination Urged During COVID-19 Pandemic; COVID-19 and mRNA Vaccines—First Large Test for a New Approach
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The Science of Persuasion Offers Lessons for COVID-19 Prevention
23m · PublishedScience communications expert Dominique Brossard, PhD, and JAMA Medical News Associate Managing Editor Jennifer Abbasi discuss research-based strategies to encourage mask wearing, social distancing, and hand washing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Brossard is a professor and chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and part of a new COVID-19-focused National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine group.
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The Science of Persuasion Offers Lessons for COVID-19 Prevention
August 2020 Medical News Summary
28m · PublishedResearchers Strive to Recruit Hard-Hit Minorities Into COVID-19 Vaccine Trials; Taking a Closer Look at COVID-19, Health Inequities, and Racism; From Auto Mechanic to Emergency Medicine Resident: Inspiring Young Blacks to Become Physicians
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Researchers Strive to Recruit Hard-Hit Minorities Into COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Taking a Closer Look at COVID-19, Health Inequities, and Racism
From Auto Mechanic to Emergency Medicine Resident: Inspiring Young Blacks to Become Physicians
Carl Allamby, MD, Shifts Gears from Repairing Cars to Graduating Medical School at Age 47
27m · PublishedCarl Allamby, MD, discusses his circuitous route from long-time auto repair shop owner to emergency medicine resident with JAMA Medical News Senior Writer Rita Rubin. Growing up in Cleveland, Allamby never saw physicians who looked like him, but an introductory biology course required for his undergraduate business degree sparked a long dormant dream of becoming a physician.
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From Auto Mechanic to Emergency Medicine Resident: Inspiring Young Blacks to Become Physicians
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.