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Nov 22, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin |Jennifer Abbasi
The winter holidays are fast approaching, and once again a new SARS-CoV-2 variant is likely to crash some festivities. XEC, the up-and-comer among circulating SARS-CoV-2 viruses, arose from the recombination of 2 other variants.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Jennifer Abbasi
At this year’s European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress—the largest scientific meeting in cardiovascular medicine—hot topics included glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, hypertension polypills, and β-blockers after myocardial infarction (MI).
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Jennifer Abbasi
In early summer of 2021, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, another public health emergency was unfolding in the Pacific Northwest region of Canada and the US. The extreme heat event came to be known as a heat dome as an area of high pressure trapped warm air beneath it for days on end. Daytime temperatures climbed to well over 100 °F, with little overnight relief. June 29 reached 121 °F, or 49 °C, in Lytton, a small town in British Columbia, becoming the hottest day on record in Canada.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Jennifer Abbasi
This June, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy penned a strongly worded op-ed in the New York Times calling for social media warning labels. “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents,” he wrote.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Jennifer Abbasi
Antiobesity drugs in “almost every permutation you could think of” took the spotlight at this year’s American Diabetes Association (ADA) 84th Scientific Sessions program, says endocrinologist Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD, the ADA’s chief scientific and medical officer. Gabbay is the Joslin Diabetes Center’s chief medical officer and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Jennifer Abbasi |Yulin Hswen |Bill Haskell
Topic, we have not touched upon in a while at Angry Bear. The stats are there to support more rigid laws suppressing the illegal use of firearms and tighter controls. I am sure there will be the naysayers. Be polite in expressing an opinion. Don't care about what Clarence thinks as he is no expert as well as three-month Army wonder Samuel. My background? At one time I could part your hair at 500 yards with a stock out-of-the armory M14. Marine Corps is pretty good at training except I was already good.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Emily Harris |Jennifer Abbasi |Yulin Hswen
Deaths from firearms have soared in the US over the past few decades. Now, guns are the leading cause of death of children. In addition, the majority of adults report they’ve experienced gun violence, including being threatened by a firearm or witnessing someone getting shot. Sounding the alarm on these trends, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, issued an advisory on gun violence.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Jennifer Abbasi
Consider these grim statistics: there were more than 48 000 firearms-related deaths in the US in 2022, equating to 132 adults and children dying every day. And firearms are now the leading cause of death among US children and teens.
What can public health leaders, medical professionals, and health systems do to mitigate gun violence and protect the health and safety of communities?
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Jennifer Abbasi |Yulin Hswen
This conversation is part of a series of interviews in which JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, and expert guests explore issues surrounding the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine.
While humans are good at nuance and the interpersonal touch, computers excel at rapid information processing.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Jennifer Abbasi
On May 30, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a third dairy farm worker had tested positive for bird flu. The case, in Michigan, was the latest development in the ongoing H5N1 avian influenza outbreak that as of May 28 had reached at least 67 dairy cattle herds in 9 states.
In March, a dairy farm worker in Texas became the first known case of the virus likely transmitting from a mammal to a person.
