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This Week in JAMA

Original Contributions

  • Alcohol and Motor Vehicle–Related Deaths of Children as Passengers, Pedestrians, and Bicyclists

    • Lewis H. Margolis,
    • Robert D. Foss,
    • William G. Tolbert
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2245-2248.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2245

  • Characteristics of Child Passenger Deaths and Injuries Involving Drinking Drivers

    • Kyran P. Quinlan,
    • Robert D. Brewer,
    • David A. Sleet,
    • Ann M. Dellinger
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2249-2252.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2249

  • Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in African American and White Adults: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    • Frederick L. Brancati,
    • W. H. Linda Kao,
    • Aaron R. Folsom,
    • Robert L. Watson,
    • Moyses Szklo
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2253-2259.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2253

  • Clinicopathologic Features of BRCA-Linked and Sporadic Ovarian Cancer

    • Jeff Boyd,
    • Yukio Sonoda,
    • Mark G. Federici,
    • Faina Bogomolniy,
    • Esther Rhei,
    • Diane L. Maresco,
    • Patricia E. Saigo,
    • Lois A. Almadrones,
    • Richard R. Barakat,
    • Carol L. Brown,
    • Dennis S. Chi,
    • John P. Curtin,
    • Elizabeth A. Poynor,
    • William J. Hoskins
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2260-2265.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2260

Preliminary Communication

  • Respiration During Snow Burial Using an Artificial Air Pocket

    • Colin K. Grissom,
    • Martin I. Radwin,
    • Chris H. Harmston,
    • Ellie L. Hirshberg,
    • Thomas J. Crowley
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2266-2271.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2266

Brief Report

  • Radiation Exposure From Outpatient Radioactive Iodine (131I) Therapy for Thyroid Carcinoma

    • Perry W. Grigsby,
    • Barry A. Siegel,
    • Susan Baker,
    • John O. Eichling
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2272-2274.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2272

Special Communication

  • Determining When Quality Improvement Initiatives Should Be Considered Research: Proposed Criteria and Potential Implications

    • David Casarett,
    • Jason H. T. Karlawish,
    • Jeremy Sugarman
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2275-2280.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2275

Consensus Statement

  • Plague as a Biological Weapon: Medical and Public Health Management

    • Thomas V. Inglesby,
    • David T. Dennis,
    • Donald A. Henderson,
    • John G. Bartlett,
    • Michael S. Ascher,
    • Edward Eitzen,
    • Anne D. Fine,
    • Arthur M. Friedlander,
    • Jerome Hauer,
    • John F. Koerner,
    • Marcelle Layton,
    • Joseph McDade,
    • Michael T. Osterholm,
    • Tara O'Toole,
    • Gerald Parker,
    • Trish M. Perl,
    • Philip K. Russell,
    • Monica Schoch-Spana,
    • Kevin Tonat,
    • for the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2281-2290.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2281

Editorials

  • Child Injuries and Fatalities From Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes: Call for a Zero-Tolerance Policy

    • Guohua Li
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2291-2292.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2291

  • Avalanches, Air Pockets, and Advertisements

    • Phil B. Fontanarosa,
    • Drummond Rennie
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2293-2294.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2293

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Medical News & Perspectives

  • Dermatologists Debate Sentinel Node Biopsy, Safety of Liposuction, and Antibiotic Prophylaxis

    • Lynne Lamberg
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2223-2224.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2223

  • NIDA Seeking Data on Effect of Fetal Exposure to Methamphetamine

    • Charles Marwick
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2225-2226.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2225

  • Travelers Need Hepatitis and Other Immunizations

    • Mike Mitka
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2226-2227.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2226

  • MISCELLANEA MEDICA

    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2227.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2227

From the Food and Drug Administration

  • Withdrawal of Troglitazone and Cisapride

    • Jane E. Henney
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2228.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2228

  • Infant Pneumococcal Vaccine

    • Jane E. Henney
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2228.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2228-a

  • Bacterial Contamination Alert

    • Jane E. Henney
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2228.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2228-b

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Salmonellosis Associated With Chicks and Ducklings—Michigan and Missouri, Spring 1999

    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2229-2230.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2229

  • Fatal Yellow Fever in a Traveler Returning From Venezuela, 1999

    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2230-2232.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2230

  • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome—Panama, 1999-2000

    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2232-2233.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2232

  • Motor-Vehicle Occupant Fatalities and Restraint Use Among Children Aged 4-8 Years—United States, 1994-1998

    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2233-2234.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2233

Letters

  • Chronic Systemic Inflammation in Overweight and Obese Adults

    • Alexandros N. Vgontzas,
    • Edward O. Bixler,
    • Dimitris A. Papanicolaou,
    • George P. Chrousos
      • Bruce R. Bistrian,
      • Lalita Khaodhiar
      • Marjolein Visser,
      • Tamara B. Harris
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2235-2236.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2235

  • Raloxifene and Risk of Vertebral Fracture in Postmenopausal Women

    • J. Halbekath,
    • W. Becker-Brüser,
    • H. Wille
      • Bruce Ettinger
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2236-2237.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2236

  • Treatment Decisions for Seriously Ill Newborns

    • Richard H. Gross
      • Mark R. Mercurio
      • Norman Fost
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2237-2238.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2237

  • Sexual Function After Hysterectomy

    • Daniel Rozenman,
    • Erick Janssen
      • Julia C. Rhodes,
      • Kristen H. Kjerulff,
      • Patricia W. Langenberg,
      • Gay M. Guzinski
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2238-2239.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2238

  • Treatment of Postoperative Respiratory Failure

    • Waheedullah Karzai,
    • Egbert Hüttemann
      • Massimo Antonelli,
      • Giorgio Conti
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2239-2240.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2239

  • Circadian Relationship of Serum Uric Acid and Nitric Oxide

    • Eugene L. Kanabrocki,
    • Jane L. H. C. Third,
    • May D. Ryan,
    • Bernard A. Nemchausky,
    • Parvez Shirazi,
    • Lawrence E. Scheving,
    • James B. McCormick,
    • Ramon C. Hermida,
    • W. Fraser Bremner,
    • Debbie A. Hoppensteadt,
    • Jawed Fareed,
    • John H. Olwin
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2240-2241.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2240

Corrections

Medical Student JAMA

  • ON THE COVER

    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2296.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2296

  • The New Atlantis and the Frontiers of Medicine

    • Michael J. Brenner
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2296.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2296-a

  • Optical Prosthesis: Visions of the Future

    • George Scarlatis
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2297.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2297

  • Examining the Living Genome in Health and Disease With DNA Microarrays

    • Maximilian Diehn,
    • Ash A. Alizadeh,
    • Patrick O. Brown
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2298-2299.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2298

  • Neural Stem Cells and Gene Therapy: Prospects for Repairing the Injured Spinal Cord

    • Steve S. W. Han,
    • Itzhak Fischer
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2300-2301.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2300

Books, Journals, New Media

  • The Politics of Cancer Revisited

    • Richard L. Meyer
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2304.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2304

  • Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings

    • Marcel J. Casavant
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2304-2305.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2304-a

  • How Scientists Explain Disease

    • Morley C. Sutter
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2305-2306.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2305

  • French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory

    • Michael M. Burgess
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2306.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2306

  • Evidence-Based Clinical Practice: Concepts and Approaches

    • Saty Satya-Murti
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2306-2307.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2306-a

  • Books, Journals, New Media Received

    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2307-2308.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2307

Resident Physician Forum

  • Residents Help Young People Understand the Truth About Tobacco

    • Sue Sisley
    JAMA. 2000;283(17):2312.doi:10.1001/jama.283.17.2312

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