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Robert H. Kubin, MD
San Mateo, Calif

JAMA. 1989;261(4):556-557.

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To the Editor.—

Despite the seriousness of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic and the pertinence of up-to-date knowledge about research into AIDS for practicing physicians, I write to ask that JAMA restrict the publication of articles about AIDS. Almost every issue of JAMA has an article or a letter reporting research findings about AIDS. As practicing physicians we are inundated with information about AIDS in JAMA and many other publications. I suspect that the large number of articles published in JAMA about AIDS is due more to the needs of researchers in the field to have their findings published than to the needs of practicing physicians who are the audience for JAMA articles.

There are expected to be only 72 000 patients with AIDS by 1990, many of whom by that time will have died. This number represents a great deal of human suffering and an important clinical epidemic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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