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This Week in JAMA

A Piece of My Mind

Original Contributions

  • Bartenders' Respiratory Health After Establishment of Smoke-Free Bars and Taverns

    • Mark D. Eisner,
    • Alexander K. Smith,
    • Paul D. Blanc
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1909-1914.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1909

  • Declining Blood Lead Levels and Changes in Cognitive Function During Childhood: The Port Pirie Cohort Study

    • Shilu Tong,
    • Peter A. Baghurst,
    • Michael G. Sawyer,
    • Jane Burns,
    • Anthony J. McMichael
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1915-1919.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1915

  • High-Altitude Cerebral Edema Evaluated With Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Clinical Correlation and Pathophysiology

    • Peter H. Hackett,
    • Philip R. Yarnell,
    • Richard Hill,
    • Kenneth Reynard,
    • Joseph Heit,
    • John McCormick
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1920-1925.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1920

  • Improved Prognosis of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms: A Population-Based Study

    • William Darrin Clouse,
    • John W. Hallett, Jr,
    • Hartzell V. Schaff,
    • Michelle M. Gayari,
    • Duane M. Ilstrup,
    • L. Joseph Melton III
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1926-1929.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1926

Review

  • Aspirin and Risk of Hemorrhagic Stroke: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

    • Jiang He,
    • Paul K. Whelton,
    • Brian Vu,
    • Michael J. Klag
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1930-1935.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1930

NIH Consensus Conference

  • Effective Medical Treatment of Opiate Addiction

    • National Consensus Development Panel on Effective Medical Treatment of Opiate Addiction
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1936-1943.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1936

Commentary

  • Should Physicians Accept Gifts From Patients?

    • Laurie J. Lyckholm
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1944-1946.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1944

Editorials

  • Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Identifying and Protecting Those At Risk

    • Ronald M. Davis
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1947-1949.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1947

  • Individualizing Aspirin Therapy for Prevention of Cardiovascular Events

    • Jean-Pierre Boissel
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1949-1950.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1949

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Medical News & Perspectives

  • Reproductive Medicine Experts Till an Increasingly Fertile Field

    • Donald F. Phillips
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1893-1895.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1893

  • Getting Religion Seen as Help in Being Well

    • Mike Mitka
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1896-1897.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1896

  • Do-It-Yourself Report on Patient Privacy

    • Mike Mitka
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1897.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1897

The World in Medicine

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Assessment of Infant Sleeping Position—Selected States, 1996

    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1899-1900.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1899

  • Self-Reported Use of Mammography and Insurance Status Among Women Aged ≥40 Years—United States, 1991-1992 and 1996-1997

    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1900-1901.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1900

  • Report on Survey Regarding Collection and Use of Cause of Injury Data by States

    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1901.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1901

JAMA 100 Years Ago

  • THE STRESS OF MODERN CIVILIZATION AS A FACTOR IN THE CAUSATION OF INSANITY.

    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1902.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1902

Poetry and Medicine

Letters

  • The Changing Treatment Paradigm for Acute Otitis Media

    • Erdem I. Cantekin
      • Antonio De la Cruz
      • Michael E. K. Moffatt,
      • Anita L. Kozyrskyi,
      • Terry P. Klassen,
      • Daniel S. Sitar
      • Michael E. Pichichero
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1903-1904.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1903

  • Screening for Alcoholism Using CAGE

    • John A. Ewing
      • Katharine A. Bradley,
      • Marcia L. Burman
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1904-1905.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1904

  • An Even Closer Look at Therapeutic Touch

    • Andrew Freinkel
      • Susan B. Collins
      • Jacque Carpenter,
      • Julia Hagemaster,
      • Barbara Joiner
      • Jesse Lee
      • Mary Ireland
      • Susan M. Schmidt
      • Robert W. Jarski
      • J. Lynn Palmer
      • Joel D. Howell
      • Jon Streltzer
      • Arnold J. Blank
      • Peter J. Manos
      • Linda Rosa,
      • Larry Sarner,
      • Stephen Barrett
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1905-1908.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1905

  • Endocarditis Prophylaxis for Transrectal Prostatic Biopsy

    • Gürkan Basaran
      • Kathryn A. Taubert,
      • Patricia Ferrieri,
      • Matthew Levison
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1908.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1908

Policy Perspectives

  • Updating Protections for Human Subjects Involved in Research

    • Jonathan Moreno,
    • Arthur L. Caplan,
    • Paul Root Wolpe,
    • and the Members of the Project on Informed Consent, Human Research Ethics Group
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1951-1958.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1951

From the JAMA Web sites

  • Testosterone Replacement Therapy for HIV-Related Wasting: Abstracts and Commentaries

    • Douglas T. Dieterich
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1959-1960.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1959

  • A New HIV-1 Group

    • Eric Delwart
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1960.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1960

Resident Forum

  • Residents and Patients: Telling Stories to Cope With Stress

    • Jeffrey P. Bishop
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1960.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1960-a

Books, Journals, New Media

  • The Health Care Future: Defining the Argument, Healing the Debate

    • Norman G. Levinsky
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1961.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1961

  • The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation

    • John M. Riddle
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1961-1962.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1961-a

  • Miracle Cure

    • Bernadine Z. Paulshock
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1962.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1962

  • Sacred Space: Stories From a Life in Medicine

    • Howard Spiro
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1962-1963.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1962-a

  • Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine

    • Donald W. Goodwin
    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1963.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1963

  • Books, Journals, New Media Received

    JAMA. 1998;280(22):1964.doi:10.1001/jama.280.22.1964

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