Rita Rubin

1 week ago | jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin |Lead Senior

It’s been nearly 30 years since Congress, in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modernization Act of 1997, instructed the US Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to consult with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director and the pharmaceutical industry to “review and develop guidance, as appropriate, on the inclusion of women and minorities in clinical trials…” In recent weeks, though, such guidance documents and other information about enrolling patients long underrepresented...

1 month ago | jamanetwork.com | Kate Schweitzer |Kristin Walter |Preeti Malani |Rita Rubin

In 2000, the US declared that measles had been locally eradicated largely thanks to the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. But little more than 10 years later, US cases surpassed 200 for the first time since elimination, and in 2019, nearly 1300 cases were confirmed. Now—as an outbreak continues to grow in West Texas and New Mexico—the highly contagious yet preventable disease doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.

2 months ago | jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin |Sandro Galea |Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

For Houston obstetrician and gynecologist Anitra Beasley, MD, MPH, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website has long been her go-to source for up-to-date, evidence-based guidance about reproductive health care and sexually transmitted infections. “If I’m treating someone with a sexually transmitted infection, what do I need to do? I know exactly where to look,” explained Beasley, medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast.

2 months ago | jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin |Noah Jones |Ming-Chieh Shih |Elizabeth Healey

This conversation is part of a series of interviews in which JAMA Network editors and expert guests explore issues surrounding the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine. It’s been nearly 14 years since the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) published treatment guidelines for uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs), the third most common indication for antibiotic treatment in the US. Have those guidelines aged well?

2 months ago | jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin

Among the typical accoutrements of an academic’s office—the family photos, the shelves of books, the laptop—Marissa Hall, PhD, keeps an empty beer can. Bebeto Matthews/AP Images Its purpose: to illustrate what’s wrong with the warning label on US alcoholic beverages, which hasn’t been updated since it first appeared in 1989.