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This Week in JAMA

A Piece of My Mind

Original Contributions

  • Effects of Tezosentan on Symptoms and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Acute Heart Failure: The VERITAS Randomized Controlled Trials

    • John J. V. McMurray,
    • John R. Teerlink,
    • Gadi Cotter,
    • Robert C. Bourge,
    • John G. F. Cleland,
    • Guillaume Jondeau,
    • Henry Krum,
    • Marco Metra,
    • Christopher M. O’Connor,
    • John D. Parker,
    • Guillermo Torre-Amione,
    • Dirk J. van Veldhuisen,
    • Jim Lewsey,
    • Aline Frey,
    • Maurizio Rainisio,
    • Isaac Kobrin,
    • for the VERITAS Investigators
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2009-2019.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2009

  • The Changing Relationship of Obesity and Disability, 1988-2004

    • Dawn E. Alley,
    • Virginia W. Chang
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2020-2027.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2020

  • Cause-Specific Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity

    • Katherine M. Flegal,
    • Barry I. Graubard,
    • David F. Williamson,
    • Mitchell H. Gail
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2028-2037.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2028

  • Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States

    • Josef Coresh,
    • Elizabeth Selvin,
    • Lesley A. Stevens,
    • Jane Manzi,
    • John W. Kusek,
    • Paul Eggers,
    • Frederick Van Lente,
    • Andrew S. Levey
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2038-2047.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2038

Clinical Crossroads

  • A 63-Year-Old Man With Multiple Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Poor Adherence to Treatment Plans

    • Thomas Bodenheimer
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2048-2055.Published online October 2, 2007. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.jrr70000

Clinical Crossroads Update

  • A 57-Year-Old Man With Osteoarthritis of the Knee

    • Nadine Farag,
    • Amy Ship,
    • Jess H. Lonner
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2055-2056.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2055

Commentaries

  • Global Regulatory Strategies for Tobacco Control

    • Lawrence O. Gostin
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2057-2059.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2057

  • A New Era of Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology

    • Bruce M. Psaty,
    • Donna Arnett,
    • Gregory Burke
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2060-2062.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2060

  • A Framework for Health Care Organizations to Develop and Evaluate a Safety Scorecard

    • Peter J. Pronovost,
    • Sean M. Berenholtz,
    • Dale M. Needham
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2063-2065.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2063

Editorial

  • Is Disability Obesity's Price of Longevity?

    • Edward W. Gregg,
    • Jack M. Guralnik
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2066-2067.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2066

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Poetry and Medicine

Medical News & Perspectives

  • Methods to Detect Circulating Tumor DNA May Help Early Diagnosis of Cancer

    • Tracy Hampton
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):1993-1994.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.1993

  • Researchers Warm Up to Hypothermia Use After Cardiac and Brain Trauma

    • Tracy Hampton
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):1994-1995.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.1994

  • Study Probes Best Choice of Drug to Reduce Phosphate in Patients on Dialysis

    • Mike Mitka
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):1995-1996.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.1995

  • New Screening Techniques Show Potential for Early Detection of Lung Cancer

    • Tracy Hampton
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):1997.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.1997

Lab Reports

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Outbreaks of Respiratory Illness Mistakenly Attributed to Pertussis—New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Tennessee, 2004-2006

    JAMA. 2007;298(17):1999-2002.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.1999

  • Notice to Readers: MMWR Podcasts

    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2002.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2002

Letters

  • Nonfasting Triglycerides and Cardiovascular Risk

    • William S. Yancy, Jr,
    • Jeff S. Volek,
    • Eric C. Westman
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2004.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2004-a

  • Nonfasting Triglycerides and Cardiovascular Risk

    • Konstantinos Tsarpalis
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2004-2005.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2004-b

  • Nonfasting Triglycerides and Cardiovascular Risk—Reply

    • Børge G. Nordestgaard,
    • Marianne Benn,
    • Anne Tybjærg-Hansen
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2005.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2005-a

  • Nonfasting Triglycerides and Cardiovascular Risk—Reply

    • Paul M Ridker
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2005-2006.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2005-b

  • Prognosis of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    • Marwan Refaat
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2006.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2006-a

  • Prognosis of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy—Reply

    • Barry J. Maron,
    • Paolo Spirito
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2006.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2006-b

  • Limited Family Structure and Breast Cancer Risk

    • Edwin S. Iversen, Jr,
    • Hormuzd A. Katki,
    • Sining Chen,
    • Donald A. Berry,
    • Giovanni Parmigiani
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2007.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2007-a

  • Limited Family Structure and Breast Cancer Risk—Reply

    • Jeffrey N. Weitzel,
    • Veronica I. Lagos,
    • Deborah J. MacDonald
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2007-2008.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2007-b

Correction

  • Data Processing Error in: Fluoxetine After Weight Restoration in Anorexia Nervosa: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2008.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2008

Book and Media Reviews

  • The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions Into Treatable Disorders

    • A. Mark Clarfield
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2070-2071.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2070

  • Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

    • Nortin M. Hadler
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2071.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2071-a

  • Medicine, Health Care, & Ethics: Catholic Voices

    • Ronald P. Hamel
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2071-2072.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2071-b

  • Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine: From Symptom to Diagnosis

    • Daniel G. Federman,
    • Eric H. Chanko
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2072-2073.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2072

  • Rubin's Pathology: Clinicopathologic Foundations of Medicine, 5th Edition

    • Syed A. Hoda,
    • Rana S. Hoda
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2073-2074.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2073

  • Physicians’ Survival Guide to Litigation Stress: Understanding, Managing, and Transcending a Malpractice Crisis

    • Louise B. Andrew
    JAMA. 2007;298(17):2074-2075.doi:10.1001/jama.298.17.2074

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