This Week in JAMA
This Week in JAMA
JAMA. 1998;279:1507.
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Original Contributions
Abstinence and Safer Sex HIV Risk-Reduction Interventions for African American Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial
John B. Jemmott III; Loretta Sweet Jemmott; Geoffrey T. Fong
JAMA. 1998;279:1529-1536.
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Role of Rifampin for Treatment of Orthopedic ImplantRelated Staphylococcal Infections: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Werner Zimmerli; Andreas F. Widmer; Marianne Blatter; R. Frei; Peter E. Ochsner; for the Foreign-Body Infection Study Group
JAMA. 1998;279:1537-1541.
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Use of the Percentage of Free Prostate-Specific Antigen to Enhance Differentiation of Prostate Cancer From Benign Prostatic Disease: A Prospective Multicenter Clinical Trial
William J. Catalona; Alan W. Partin; Kevin M. Slawin; Michael K. Brawer; Robert C. Flanigan; Anup Patel; Jerome P. Richie; Jean B. deKernion; Patrick C. Walsh; Peter T. Scardino; Paul H. Lange; Eric N. P. Subong; Robert E. Parson; Gail H. Gasior; Kathleen G. Loveland; Paula C. Southwick
JAMA. 1998;279:1542-1547.
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Why Patients Use Alternative Medicine: Results of a National Study
John A. Astin
JAMA. 1998;279:1548-1553.
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Clinical Investigations
Comparison of Molecular Changes in Lung Cancers in HIV-Positive and HIV-Indeterminate Subjects
Ignacio I. Wistuba; Carmen Behrens; Sara Milchgrub; Arvind K. Virmani; Jaishree Jagirdar; Bilue Thomas; Harry L. Ioachim; Leslie A. Litzky; Elisabeth M. Brambilla; John D. Minna; Adi F. Gazdar
JAMA. 1998;279:1554-1559.
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Reviews
Why Review Articles on the Health Effects of Passive Smoking Reach Different Conclusions
Deborah E. Barnes; Lisa A. Bero
JAMA. 1998;279:1566-1570.
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Special Communications
Reorganizing an Academic Medical Service: Impact on Cost, Quality, Patient Satisfaction, and Education
Robert M. Wachter; Patricia Katz; Jonathan Showstack; Andrew B. Bindman; Lee Goldman
JAMA. 1998;279:1560-1565.
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Contempo 1998
Emerging Ethical Issues in Palliative Care
Edmund D. Pellegrino
JAMA. 1998;279:1521-1522.
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Commentaries
Time to Act on Drug Safety
Thomas J. Moore; Bruce M. Psaty; Curt D. Furberg
JAMA. 1998;279:1571-1573.
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Editorials
Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Adolescents: A Clash of Ideology and Science
Ralph J. DiClemente
JAMA. 1998;279:1574-1575.
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Reconsideration of Rifampin: A Unique Drug for a Unique Infection
Dani-Margot Zavasky; Merle A. Sande
JAMA. 1998;279:1575-1577.
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Letters
Insulin Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes
Matthew C. Riddle; Diane M. Karl; John M. Poothullil; M. James Lenhard; Irl B. Hirsch; Timothy C. Evans; Barak Gaster; Paul V. M. Cromme; Joseph C. Shipp; Lois Jovanovic; Rodney A. Hayward; Willard G. Manning; Edward Wagner; Sheldon Greenfield; John A. Colwell
JAMA. 1998;279:1523-1526.
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Concerns About Run-in Periods in Randomized Trials
Robert J. Glynn; Julie E. Buring; Charles H. Hennekens; David Riley; Ted J. Kaptchuk; Ariel Pablos-Méndez; R. Graham Barr; Steven Shea
JAMA. 1998;279:1526-1527.
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SV40-Contaminated Poliovirus Vaccine and Childhood Cancer Risk
Susan Gross Fisher; Howard D. Strickler; Philip S. Rosenberg; Susan S. Devesa; Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr; James J. Goedert
JAMA. 1998;279:1527-1528.
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NEWS AND ANALYSIS
From the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs
Heat-Related Illness During Extreme Weather Emergencies
Laura N. Blum; Linda B. Bresolin; Michael A. Williams; for the Council on Scientific Affairs
JAMA. 1998;279:1514.
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Medical News & Perspectives
Using Ventricular Assist Devices as Long-term Therapy for Heart Failure
Andrew A. Skolnick
JAMA. 1998;279:1509-1510.
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Domestic Violence Recognized as World Problem
Charles Marwick
JAMA. 1998;279:1510.
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MediCaring Project to Demonstrate, Evaluate Innovative End-of-Life Program for Chronically Ill
Andrew A. Skolnick
JAMA. 1998;279:1511-1512.
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Health Agencies Update
Is a Cigar More Than a Cigar?
Joan Stephenson
JAMA. 1998;279:1513.
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Deafness Gene Identified
Joan Stephenson
JAMA. 1998;279:1513.
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Calling All Clinical Guidelines
Joan Stephenson
JAMA. 1998;279:1513.
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Preventing MI Treatment Delays
Joan Stephenson
JAMA. 1998;279:1513.
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From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Tuberculosis MorbidityUnited States, 1997
JAMA. 1998;279:1515-1516.
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Update: Influenza ActivityUnited States and Worldwide, 1997-98 Season, and Composition of the 1998-99 Influenza Vaccine
JAMA. 1998;279:1516-1517.
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Erratum: Vol. 47, No. 1 (JAMA . 1998;279:495-496)
JAMA. 1998;279:1517.
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The Cover
Still Life
M. Therese Southgate
JAMA. 1998;279:1508.
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A Piece of My Mind
Holding the Heart
Daniel J. Waters
JAMA. 1998;279:1520.
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Poetry and Medicine
Spleen (No. 76)
Paula Tatarunis
JAMA. 1998;279:1508.
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JAMA 100 Years Ago
THE INFLUENCE OF LOCALITY ON DISEASE.
JAMA. 1998;279:1522.
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Books, Journals, New Media
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
John J. Massarelli
JAMA. 1998;279:1578.
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Spinal Discord: One Man's Wrenching Tale of Woe in Twenty-Four (Vertebral) Segments
Robert M. Crowell
JAMA. 1998;279:1578-1579.
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Hurst's The Heart
E. William Hancock
JAMA. 1998;279:1579-1580.
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Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery
Reid A. Abrams; Beverly Renford
JAMA. 1998;279:1580.
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Virtual Human, ver 1.0
Stanley W. Jacob
JAMA. 1998;279:1580-1581.
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JAMA NetSight
Pediatrics on the PC
Richard Peters; Robert Sikorski
JAMA. 1998;279:1583-1584.
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Obituaries
Mary Catherine Raugust Howell
Yeou-Cheng Ma
JAMA. 1998;279:1586.
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Obituary Listing
Obituary Listing
JAMA. 1998;279:1586.
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Corrections
Incorrect Data
JAMA. 1998;279:1528.
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Incorrect Table Footnote
JAMA. 1998;279:1528.
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Correction to Book Review
JAMA. 1998;279:1580.
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JAMA Patient Page
Preventing HIV infection
JAMA. 1998;279:1590.
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