Leading Medicare: Q & A With Medicare Director Meena Seshamani
As the largest public insurance program in the US, Medicare has an outsize influence in how many people in the US access and receive health care. Recently appointed Director of Center for Medicare Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, joins JAMA Associate Editor Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, for a discussion of equitable, patient-centered approaches to health care delivery, and how her own experiences as a physician have illuminated how she leads the program. Related Content: Center for Medicare Director Envisions Holistic Approach to Health Care Leading Medicare: Q&A With Medicare Director Meena Seshamani Health System Factors Related to O...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Adults
Interview with Lori Pbert, PhD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 15, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Atrial Fibrillation
Interview with Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Atrial Fibrillation: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by Gregory Curfman, MD. (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - January 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Public Health in an Era of Endemic COVID-19
Three members of President Biden’s former COVID-19 Advisory Board—Luciana Borio, MD, Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, and Mike Osterholm, PhD—discuss their recent JAMA Viewpoints, providing their ideas on strategies for public health as COVID-19 transitions from pandemic to endemic. Hosted by JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD. Related Content: A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life With COVID A National Strategy for COVID-19—Testing, Surveillance, and Mitigation Strategies A National Strategy for COVID-19 Medical Countermeasures Former Biden-Harris Transition Advisors Propose a New National Strategy f...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - January 18, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
COVID-19 CDC Update – Early January 2022
Former CDC Executive Secretariat of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Amanda Cohn, MD, joins JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, for the latest on the need for vaccination and boosters, vaccine misinformation, and tackling the pandemic from a global perspective. Recorded January 6, 2022. Related Content: One Year of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Shot of Hope, a Dose of Reality COVID-19 Vaccines Have Been Available in the US for More Than a Year—What’s Been Learned and What’s Next? COVID-19 CDC Update – Early January 2022 (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - January 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
USPSTF Recommendation: Screening and Interventions to Prevent Dental Caries in Children
Interview with Michael Cabana, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening and Interventions to Prevent Dental Caries in Children Younger Than 5 Years: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Related Content: (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - December 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
COVID-19 Update: Omicron Variant
Infectious disease experts Adam Lauring, MD, PhD, and Carlos del Rio, MD, join JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, for a discussion of the newly emerged Omicron variant, the potential for a 2021-2022 "twindemic" with flu, and the latest COVID-19 clinical updates. Recorded December 1, 2021. Related content: Omicron Has Reached the US—Here’s What Infectious Disease Experts Know About the Variant COVID-19 Update: Omicron Variant (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - December 6, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Achieving Diagnostic Excellence in the 21st Century
Phil Fontanarosa, MD, MBA, interim editor in chief of JAMA, interviews Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Abraham Verghese, MD, from Stanford University School of Medicine, about diagnostic excellence and a new series on this topic in JAMA. Related Content: Diagnostic Excellence Diagnosis and the Illness Experience: Ways of Knowing (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - October 28, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
A Continued Focus on Equity Through Pharmacoequity and Digital Health Equity: Two Current Viewpoints
Individuals who experience systemic, structural, institutional, and social barriers within society deserve better and more convenient health care access. This idea should be central when advancing efforts to achieve health equity. JAMA Editorial Board member Raina M. Merchant, MD, speaks with Courtney R. Lyles, PhD, and Urmimala Sarkar, MD, about approaches toward improving digital health equity and with Utibe R. Essien, MD, about enhancing targeted efforts toward realizing pharmacoequity. Related Content: A Policy Prescription for Reducing Health Disparities—Achieving Pharmacoequity Focusing on Digital Health Equity (So...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - October 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Administrative Costs in US Health Care: A Quarter-Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Health care expenses that arise from largely nonclinical functions, such as coding and billing and administration, cost the US health care system almost $1 trillion annually. Michael Chernew, PhD, from Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy, and David Cutler, PhD, from Harvard University Department of Economics, join JAMA Associate Editor Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, from Washington University School of Medicine to discuss some basic fixes and simplifications that could reduce administrative spending by an estimated $265 billion. Related Content: Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Pote...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - October 20, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Effect of Carbon Dioxide Laser vs Sham Therapy on Women With Postmenopausal Vaginal Symptoms
Interview with Jason A. Abbott, and Fiona G Li, authors of Effect of Fractional Carbon Dioxide Laser vs Sham Treatment on Symptom Severity in Women With Postmenopausal Vaginal Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Trial (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - October 12, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Scopolamine Butylbromide for Preventing End-of-Life Death Rattle
Death rattle, defined as noisy breathing caused by the presence of mucus in the respiratory tract, is common among dying patients. Harriette van Esch, MD, from the Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands, and Jared R. Lowe, MD, from the University of North Carolina, join JAMA Associate Editor Ethan Basch, MD, to discuss evidence about use of prophylactic scopolamine butylbromide to reduce the death rattle. Related Content: Effect of Prophylactic Subcutaneous Scopolamine Butylbromide on Death Rattle Preventing Death Rattle With Prophylactic Subcutaneous Scopolamine Butylbromide (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - October 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
USPSTF Recommendation: Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality
Interview with Aaron B. Caughey, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force Related Content: Low-Dose Aspirin for the Prevention of Preeclampsia USPSTF Recommendation: Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia Patient Information: Use of Aspirin During Pregnancy to Prevent Preeclampsia (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - September 28, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
COVID-19 in Canada —Experience and Response to Waves 2 and 3
Canadian law gives the country’s individual provinces and territories primary responsibility for coronavirus containment and mitigation. JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, from the University of Michigan and Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, discuss the national pandemic experience, including public health responses to infection and vaccine allocation, from fall 2020 through summer 2021. Related Content: COVID-19 in Canada: Experience and Response to Waves 2 and 3 (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - September 28, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
Interview with Martha Kubik, PhD, RN, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - September 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
