JAMA Medical News
Discussions 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.
November 2024 Medical News Summary
AI and the FDA
The Ethics of AI as Clinical Decision Maker
AI and the National Academy of Sciences
October 2024 Medical News Summary
Getting Technology Into the Clinic
What Lessons Does the VA’s Experience Building Electronic Health Records Hold for AI?
Heart Health Highlights From ESC Congress
September 2024 Medical News Summary
Lasker Winners Discuss 35 Years of HIV Research in Africa
Three Years Later, Here’s What the Pacific Northwest Heat Dome Taught Us
August 2024 Medical News Summary
Highlights From the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference
Social Media Needs Warning Labels: Q&A With Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA
Clinical Highlights From the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions
July 2024 Medical News Summary
Q&A With Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA: Gun Violence Is a Public Health Crisis
Clinical Highlights From ASCO 2024
The Future of Wearables and Mobile Devices for Patient Care
What a Neurologist With Alzheimer Disease Wants People to Know
June 2024 Medical News Summary
May 2024 Medical News Summary
AI in Radiology: Enhancing Analysis, Education, and Access
Enhancing Global Mental Health Care With Digital Tools and AI for Scalable Interventions
April 26, 2024, Medical News Summary
Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2024 Scientific Session
April 12, 2024 Medical News Summary
AI and Clinical Practice: Using AI to Increase Access to Reliable Health Information
March 2024 Medical News Summary
AI and Clinical Practice—The Potential for AI to Enable Speech and Facilitate Full Expression for Individuals With Brain Injuries
AI and Clinical Practice—How AI Could Advance Human Heart Discoveries and Improve Care
February 2024 Medical News Summary
AI and Clinical Practice: Automation Bias and Short Cuts in Clinical AI Models
AI and Clinical Practice—AI and the Ethics of Developing and Deploying Clinical AI Models
January 31, 2024, Medical News Summary
January 24, 2024, Medical News Summary
AI and Clinical Practice—Discovery and Scaling Findings From Large, Multicenter Health Care Datasets
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Monitoring to Reduce Data-Based Disparities
December 2023 Medical News Summary
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Guardrails: The US Executive Order and the Need for Global Harmonization
AI and Clinical Practice—the AI Health Care Goal for Patient Care
November 2023 Medical News Summary
Highlights from AHA 2023—New Risk Calculator, Semaglutide and CVD, and More
AI and Clinical Practice—the Learning Health System and AI
Highlights From Infectious Diseases Week 2023
Highlights From Gastroenterology Week 2023
AI and Clinical Practice—Predictive AI and Early Clinical Detection
October 2023 Medical News Summary
AI and Clinical Practice—Can AI Accelerate Medical Education?
AI and Clinical Practice—Building Patient and Clinician Trust in a Health Care System
AI and Clinical Practice—Improving Health Care Quality and Equity
AI and Clinical Practice—the Potential to Reduce Clinician Burden and Streamline Health Systems
September 2023 Medical News Summary
AI and Clinical Practice—the Potential for AI to Augment Humanity in Medicine
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Gaslighting, AI Hallucinations, and GenAI Potential
Climate Change and Health
August 2023 Medical News Summary
July 2023 Medical News Summary
Highlights From the American Diabetes Association Scientific Session 2023
Worsening US Maternal Death Rates
June 2023 Medical News Summary
Highlights From the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
Highlights From the American Thoracic Society 2023 Conference
May 2023 Medical News Summary
Live From the 2023 American Academy of Neurology Conference
Highlights From ECCMID, Europe’s Largest Infectious Diseases Conference
April 2023 Medical News Summary
March 2023 Medical News Summary
Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2023 Scientific Session
Eliminating Hepatitis C in the United States
Live From CROI, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
February 2023 Medical News Summary
Revisiting Phage Therapy for Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
January 2023 Medical News Summary
December 2022 Medical News Summary
November 2022 Medical News Summary
Highlights From the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2022
Highlights From Infectious Disease Week 2022
October 2022 Medical News Summary
Global COVID-19 Update
September 2022 Medical News Summary
August 2022 Medical News Summary
July 2022 Medical News Summary
South Asian Ancestry, Cardiovascular Disease, and the MASALA Study
A Conversation With Dr Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, JAMA’s New Editor in Chief
June 2022 Medical News Summary
Highlights From the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Q&A With Loren Laine, MD, on Highlights From Digestive Disease Week 2022
American Thoracic Society 2022 Conference Highlights
May 2022 Medical News Summary
April 2022 Medical News Summary
Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s Scientific Sessions: New Heart Failure Management Guidelines and more
March 2022 Medical News Summary
Ukrainian Doctors Share Current Experiences
Highlights From the International Stroke Conference
February 2022 Medical News Summary
January 2022 Medical News Summary
December 2021 Medical News Summary
After 12 Years, NIH Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, Seeks His Next Chapter
November 2021 Medical News Summary
Highlights From the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2021
October 2021 Medical News Summary
A New Vision for Nursing Homes
September 2021 Medical News Summary
Rebounding From COVID-19’s Reversal of Recent Progress in the ICU
9/11 Responders’ Health 20 Years Later, Part 2
9/11 Responders’ Health 20 Years Later, Part 1
August 2021 Medical News Summary
July 2021 Medical News Summary
June 2021 Medical News Summary
Lung Transplants for COVID-19—The Option of Last Resort
May 2021 Medical News Summary
Whistleblower Pediatrician Discusses the Legacy of Flint, Michigan’s Water Crisis
An Inside Look at a Post–COVID-19 Clinic
Neurologist Faces His Alzheimer Diagnosis Determined to Lessen Stigma Surrounding the Disease
April 2021 Medical News Summary
A Partnership With the Cherokee Nation Advances Medical Education on Tribal Land
March 2021 Medical News Summary
February 2021 Medical News Summary
January 2021 Medical News Summary
Dermatologist Cares for People Experiencing Homelessness
COVID-19 Conspiracies and Beyond: How Physicians Can Deal With Patients’ Misinformation
December 2020 Medical News Summary
Surgeon Creates Barrier-Free COVID-19 Testing Service for Philadelphia's Black Residents
Q&A With Spine Surgeons Who Also Happen to be a Musical Duo
November 2020 Medical News Summary
Live from AHA 2020: Highlights from the American Heart Association’s Virtual Scientific Sessions
October 2020 Medical News Summary
Digging Into Obesity’s COVID-19 Risks
September 2020 Medical News Summary
The Science of Persuasion Offers Lessons for COVID-19 Prevention
August 2020 Medical News Summary
Carl Allamby, MD, Shifts Gears from Repairing Cars to Graduating Medical School at Age 47
July 2020 Medical News Summary
Taking a Closer Look at COVID-19, Health Inequities, and Racism
June 2020 Medical News Summary
The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine
May 2020 Medical News Summary
Prioritizing Physician Mental Health as COVID-19 Marches On
April 2020 Medical News Summary
Pandemic Part 1: 1918 Flu Pandemic and COVID-19
Pandemic Part 2: A Trip to Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum
Risk Uncertain From Sunscreen Ingredients in Blood
March 2020 Medical News Summary
February 2020 Medical News Summary
Coronavirus and Beyond: Responding to Biological Threats
January Medical News Summary
December Medical News Summary
November Medical News Summary
Live from AHA, Part 3: Update on Nutrition Hot Topics
Live from AHA, Part 2: The American Heart Association Takes on Vaping
Live from AHA, Part 1: Highlights from the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions
Philanthropists Fund Johns Hopkins Center for Study of Psychedelics
October Medical News Summary
Firearms and Dementia: “A Big Deal and a Tough Issue”
JAMA Medical News Summary for September 2019
JAMA Medical News Summary for August 2019
Type 1 Diabetes Advances Pave the Way for Prevention
With Neuroimaging, Large NIH Study Could Shine a Light on the Adolescent Brain
Getting Social: Physicians Need to Counteract Misinformation Online
JAMA Medical News Summary for July 2019
New Guidelines Aim to Expand Palliative Care Beyond Specialists
JAMA Medical News Summary for June 2019
Low Awareness of Scammers’ Tactics Linked to Dementia Risk in Cognitively Normal People
JAMA Medical News Summary for May 2019
Study Puts Eggs and Dietary Cholesterol Back on the Radar
JAMA Medical News Summary for April 2019
Unpacking A Recent Study Linking Diet Soda With Stroke Risks
Dr Schrier Goes to Congress as Second Woman Physician
JAMA Medical News Summary for March 2019
Paradise’s Emergency Department Director Recalls California’s Worst Wildfire
JAMA Medical News Summary for February 2019
JAMA Medical News Summary for January 2019
New Planned Parenthood President: No Politics in the Exam Room
American Academy of Pediatrics Says No More Spanking or Harsh Verbal Discipline
Sexual Harassment and Assault Associated With Poorer Midlife Health in Women
JAMA Medical News Summary for December 2018
Physicians Are Steering the Conversation About Gun Violence
For Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr Denis Mukwege, His Patients Motivate and Inspire
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Human Placenta
JAMA Medical News Summary for November 2018
For Difficult-to-Model Brain Diseases, Brain Organoids Come to the Rescue
Have Tent, Will Do Pop-Up HIV Screening
Vulnerability to Pandemic Flu Could Be Greater Today Than a Century Ago
Cardiologist Trades Stem Cells for Cell-Based Meat
Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico: A Physician Looks Back at the Storm
Anthony Fauci, MD: Working to End HIV/AIDS
“Is There a Doctor on the Plane?”
Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD: Developing Prescribable Video Games
Framingham at 70: What We’ve Learned About Women and Heart Disease
Training Physicians About Nutrition
Researching Nondrug Approaches to Pain Management
ASO Therapy: Hope for Genetic Neurological Diseases
The Human Diagnosis Project
New Inroads Against Multiple Sclerosis
Ketamine-Like Agents for Depression
Phage Therapy for Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
The Human Cell Atlas
Robots Help Patients Change Behaviors
The Nature of Lung Microbiome Research
Barry Marshall, MD: H pylori 35 Years Later
Alzheimer Outlook Far From Bleak
NIH Charts a Path for Nutrition Science
Pioneering Geneticist Explains Ambitious Plan to “Write” the Human Genome
On CDC’s 70th Anniversary, Director Tom Frieden, MD, Looks Ahead
Threat From Colistin-Resistant Superbug
HIV and Transplantation: New Reasons for HOPE
Quelling Zika Fears With Evidence
Doing Field Work With Doctors Without Borders
Donald M. Berwick Reflects on Medicare at 50