June 2020 Medical News Summary
Latin America and Its Global Partners Toil to Procure Medical Supplies as COVID-19 Pushes the Region to Its Limit; "Abandoned" Nursing Homes Continue to Face Critical Supply and Staff Shortages as COV...
23 Juni 202023min
The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine
JAMA's Angel Desai, MD, speaks with Gary Marcus, PhD, coauthor of Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust. Marcus argues that endowing machines with intelligence will require innov...
3 Juni 202032min
May 2020 Medical News Summary
Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19; Prioritizing Physician Mental Health as COVID-19 Marches On; Global Effort to Collect Data on Ventilated Patients With COVID-19
26 Maj 202019min
Prioritizing Physician Mental Health as COVID-19 Marches On
The University of New Mexico's Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, speaks with JAMA's Jennifer Abbasi about the pandemic's mental and emotional toll on health care workers—and how they and their employers can sa...
20 Maj 202023min
April 2020 Medical News Summary
Finding Ways to Reduce Coronavirus Exposure During Dialysis; The Promise and Peril of Antibody Testing for COVID-19; The Challenge of Preventing COVID-19 Spread in Correctional Facilities
28 Apr 202028min
Pandemic Part 2: A Trip to Philadelphia's Mutter Museum
A new exhibit on the 1918 flu pandemic asks: What is an individual's responsibility to their community during a pandemic? Exhibit curator Jane Boyd and museum manager Nancy Hill take Jennifer Abbasi o...
27 Apr 202022min
Pandemic Part 1: 1918 Flu Pandemic and COVID-19
Medical historian Howard Markel, MD, PhD, director of the University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine, speaks with JAMA Fishbein fellow Angel Desai, MD, about lessons from the devastat...
27 Apr 202032min
March 2020 Medical News Summary
Fixing the Parent Trap for Resident Physicians; Confirmatory Trial For Drug to Prevent Preterm Birth Finds No Benefit, So Why Is It Still Prescribed?; The Low-FODMAP Diet Helps IBS Symptoms, but Quest...
1 Apr 202022min
