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This Week in JAMA

A Piece of My Mind

Original Contributions

  • Estrogen Plus Progestin and the Incidence of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    • Sally A. Shumaker,
    • Claudine Legault,
    • Stephen R. Rapp,
    • Leon Thal,
    • Robert B. Wallace,
    • Judith K. Ockene,
    • Susan L. Hendrix,
    • Beverly N. Jones III,
    • Annlouise R. Assaf,
    • Rebecca D. Jackson,
    • Jane Morley Kotchen,
    • Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller,
    • Jean Wactawski-Wende,
    • for the WHIMS Investigators
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2651-2662.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2651

  • Effect of Estrogen Plus Progestin on Global Cognitive Function in Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    • Stephen R. Rapp,
    • Mark A. Espeland,
    • Sally A. Shumaker,
    • Victor W. Henderson,
    • Robert L. Brunner,
    • JoAnn E. Manson,
    • Margery L. S. Gass,
    • Marcia L. Stefanick,
    • Dorothy S. Lane,
    • Jennifer Hays,
    • Karen C. Johnson,
    • Laura H. Coker,
    • Maggie Dailey,
    • Deborah Bowen,
    • for the WHIMS Investigators
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2663-2672.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2663

  • Effect of Estrogen Plus Progestin on Stroke in Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative: A Randomized Trial

    • Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller,
    • Susan Hendrix,
    • Marian Limacher,
    • Gerardo Heiss,
    • Charles Kooperberg,
    • Alison Baird,
    • Theodore Kotchen,
    • J. David Curb,
    • Henry Black,
    • Jacques E. Rossouw,
    • Aaron Aragaki,
    • Monika Safford,
    • Evan Stein,
    • Somchai Laowattana,
    • W. Jerry Mysiw,
    • for the WHI Investigators
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2673-2684.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2673

  • Combined Cardiac Resynchronization and Implantable Cardioversion Defibrillation in Advanced Chronic Heart Failure: The MIRACLE ICD Trial

    • James B. Young,
    • William T. Abraham,
    • Andrew L. Smith,
    • Angel R. Leon,
    • Randy Lieberman,
    • Bruce Wilkoff,
    • Robert C. Canby,
    • John S. Schroeder,
    • L. Bing Liem,
    • Shelley Hall,
    • Kevin Wheelan,
    • for The Multicenter InSync ICD Randomized Clinical Evaluation (MIRACLE ICD) Trial Investigators
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2685-2694.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2685

  • Variation of Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen Levels: An Evaluation of Year-to-Year Fluctuations

    • James A. Eastham,
    • Elyn Riedel,
    • Peter T. Scardino,
    • Moshe Shike,
    • Martin Fleisher,
    • Arthur Schatzkin,
    • Elaine Lanza,
    • Lianne Latkany,
    • Colin B. Begg,
    • for the Polyp Prevention Trial Study Group
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2695-2700.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2695

Clinical Crossroads

  • A 65-Year-Old Woman With Acute Cough Illness and an Important Engagement

    • Ralph Gonzales
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2701-2708.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2701

Special Communication

  • Use of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Publication

    • Judith B. Kaplan,
    • Trude Bennett
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2709-2716.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2709

Editorials

  • Hormone Therapy and the Brain: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

    • Kristine Yaffe
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2717-2719.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2717

  • Combining Resynchronization and Defibrillation Therapies for Heart Failure

    • David J. Bradley
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2719-2721.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2719

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Poetry and Medicine

Medical News & Perspectives

  • Detecting Acute HIV Infections Feasible, North Carolina Program Demonstrates

    • Rebecca Voelker
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2633-2634.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2633

  • Naval Hospital Ship Heads for Home After Treating Casualties of Gulf War

    • Brian Vastag
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2635-2636.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2635

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Update: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome—United States, 2003

    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2637.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2637-a

  • Updated Interim Surveillance Case Definition for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—United States, April 29, 2003

    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2637-2639.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2637-b

  • Self-Reported Asthma Prevalence and Control Among Adults—United States, 2001

    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2639-2640.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2639

  • Poisoning by an Illegally Imported Chinese Rodenticide Containing Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine—New York City, 2002

    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2640-2642.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2640

  • Update: Adverse Events Following Civilian Smallpox Vaccination—United States, 2003

    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2642.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2642

Letters

  • Optimal Digoxin Concentrations for Patients With Heart Failure

    • Pierugo Carbonin,
    • Giuseppe Zuccalà
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2643.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2643-a

  • Optimal Digoxin Concentrations for Patients With Heart Failure

    • Simon de Denus,
    • Sarah A. Spinler
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2643.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2643-b

  • Optimal Digoxin Concentrations for Patients With Heart Failure—Reply

    • Saif S. Rathore,
    • Jeptha P. Curtis,
    • Yongfei Wang,
    • Michael R. Bristow,
    • Harlan M. Krumholz
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2643-2644.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2643-c

  • Health and Function of Patients With Untreated Idiopathic Scoliosis

    • Martha C. Hawes
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2644.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2644-a

  • Health and Function of Patients With Untreated Idiopathic Scoliosis—Reply

    • Stuart L. Weinstein
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2644-2645.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2644-b

  • Approaches to Reducing Consumption of Alcohol by Youth

    • Matt Walcoff
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2645.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2645-a

  • Approaches to Reducing Consumption of Alcohol by Youth—Reply

    • Susan E. Foster,
    • Roger Vaughan
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2645-2646.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2645-b

  • Liability for Adverse Events in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

    • David Shein
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2646.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2646-a

  • Liability for Adverse Events in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

    • George W. Evans,
    • Arnold I. Friede
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2646-2647.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2646-b

  • Liability for Adverse Events in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising—Reply

    • Michelle M. Mello,
    • Meredith B. Rosenthal,
    • Peter J. Neumann
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2647.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2647-a

  • Measuring Improvement in Quality of Care

    • Gail M. Amundson,
    • George Isham
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2647.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2647-b

  • Measuring Improvement in Quality of Care—Reply

    • Stephen F. Jencks,
    • Edwin D. Huff,
    • Timothy Cuerdon
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2647.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2647-c

  • Can Administrative Data Assess Physicians' Quality of Care?

    • Marcy Zwelling-Aamot
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2648.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2648-a

  • Can Administrative Data Assess Physicians' Quality of Care?—Reply

    • David Hsia
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2648.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2648-b

Research Letter

  • Analysis of Generic Nevirapine Products in Developing Countries

    • Scott R. Penzak,
    • Edward P. Acosta,
    • Michele Turner,
    • Jorge A. Tavel,
    • Henry Masur
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2648-2649.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2648-c

Correction

  • Change in the Quality of Care Delivered to Medicare Beneficiaries, 1998-1999 to 2000-2001—Correction

    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2649.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2649

CME Announcement

  • CME Hiatus: July Through December 2002

    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2649.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2649-a

Books, Journals, New Media

  • Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics, vols 1-3

    • Joe J. Hoo
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2723-2724.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2723

  • Hepatology: A Textbook of Liver Disease, vols 1 & 2

    • Frank L. Iber
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2724-2725.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2724

  • Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States 1880-2000

    • Jerome A. Paulson
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2725-2726.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2725

  • The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America

    • Margaret Humphreys
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2726.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2726-a

  • Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, vols 1-3

    • John H. van de Leuv
    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2726-2727.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2726-b

  • Books, Journals, New Media Received

    JAMA. 2003;289(20):2727-2728.doi:10.1001/jama.289.20.2727

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