JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.17571
Svetlana Mojsov
{"title":"Chemistry Matters—From a Putative Peptide to Effective Treatments for Diabetes and Obesity","authors":"Svetlana Mojsov","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.17571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.17571","url":null,"abstract":"In this Viewpoint, 2024 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award winner Svetlana Mojsov describes her discovery of GLP-1 (7-37), the biologically active incretin that led to development of effective GLP-1 analogues for treating diabetes and obesity.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.18271
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S. Abdool Karim
{"title":"AIDS in Africa—Impact of Research","authors":"Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S. Abdool Karim","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.18271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.18271","url":null,"abstract":"In this Viewpoint, 2024 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award winners Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim discuss their journey in AIDS research in South Africa and the local and global health impact of this research.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.19030
Preeti Malani
{"title":"Thirty-Five Years of HIV Research in Africa—An Interview With Winners of the 2024 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award","authors":"Preeti Malani","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.19030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.19030","url":null,"abstract":"This Medical News article is an interview with Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD, and Salim S. Abdool Karim, MBChB, PhD, who received the award for their decades of work on AIDS in Africa.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.18000
Lotte Bjerre Knudsen
{"title":"GLP-1 for Treating Obesity—Origin, History, and Evolution","authors":"Lotte Bjerre Knudsen","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.18000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.18000","url":null,"abstract":"In this Viewpoint, 2024 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award winner Lotte Bjerre Knudsen describes her discovery of glucagon-like peptide-1 for the treatment of patients with obesity.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.13544
Osondu Ogbuoji,Wendy Prudhomme O'Meara
{"title":"The Crucial Role of Rapid Point-of-Care Tests for Malaria in Improving Fever Management.","authors":"Osondu Ogbuoji,Wendy Prudhomme O'Meara","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.13544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.13544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.15857
Jeffrey D Robinson,Douglas J Opel
{"title":"Word Choice and the Patient Encounter.","authors":"Jeffrey D Robinson,Douglas J Opel","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.15857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.15857","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.15225
Patrizia Cavazzoni, Sarah Yim
{"title":"The Science of Biosimilars—Updating Interchangeability","authors":"Patrizia Cavazzoni, Sarah Yim","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.15225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.15225","url":null,"abstract":"This Viewpoint from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) summarizes a recent update to an FDA draft interchangeability guidance regarding the need for clinical switching studies to illustrate the FDA’s ongoing efforts to streamline the development of biosimilar medications that are in line with the latest science.","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.17341
Jamie K Lim,Sriram Ramgopal,Jennifer A Hoffmann,Doug Lorenz,Michael S Toce
{"title":"Characteristics and Trends of Prehospital Encounters for Opioid Overdoses Among US Youth, 2018-2022.","authors":"Jamie K Lim,Sriram Ramgopal,Jennifer A Hoffmann,Doug Lorenz,Michael S Toce","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.17341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.17341","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.15510
Janet Freilich,Aaron S Kesselheim
{"title":"The Patent Trial and Appeals Board: A Target for Prescription Drug Patent Reform?","authors":"Janet Freilich,Aaron S Kesselheim","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.15510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.15510","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMAPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.12589
Han Zhang,Günther Fink,Jessica Cohen
{"title":"Malaria Rapid Tests, Febrile Illness Management, and Child Mortality Across Sub-Saharan African Countries.","authors":"Han Zhang,Günther Fink,Jessica Cohen","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.12589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.12589","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceA prompt malaria diagnosis is crucial for the management of children with febrile illness in sub-Saharan African countries, where malaria remains a leading cause of mortality among children younger than 5 years of age. The development and distribution of point-of-care rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria has transformed practice, but limited systematic evidence exists on how malaria RDTs have affected the management of febrile illness and mortality for children younger than 5 years of age across sub-Saharan Africa countries.ObjectiveTo evaluate the association between the distribution of malaria RDTs and the management of febrile illness and mortality among children younger than 5 years of age in sub-Saharan African countries.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis quasi-experimental study used a novel dataset linking malaria RDT distribution to 165 nationally representative household surveys across 35 sub-Saharan African countries with mortality data. The sample comprised approximately 3.9 million child-year observations and approximately 260 000 febrile illness episodes in children younger than 5 years of age between 2000 and 2019.Main Outcomes and MeasuresFixed-effects linear probability models were used to analyze the association between variation in malaria RDTs distributed per child younger than 5 years of age (by country per year) and blood testing, antimalarial drug use, antibiotic use, use of symptomatic treatments, and mortality rates. Variation in the effects of testing and treatment was also assessed across the sub-Saharan African countries that had varying prevalence of malaria.ResultsThe mortality sample included 1 317 866 children and the fever sample included 256 292 children. The mean age of the children with febrile illness was 2.4 years (SD, 1.3 years) and 49% were female. Each additional malaria RDT distributed per child younger than 5 years of age was associated with an increase of 3.5 percentage points (95% CI, 3.2-3.8 percentage points) in blood testing, an increase of 1.5 percentage points (95% CI, 1.2-1.8 percentage points) in the use of antimalarial drugs, an increase of 0.4 percentage points (95% CI, 0.1-0.6 percentage points) in antibiotic use, and a decrease of 0.4 percentage points (95% CI, 0.1-0.8 percentage points) in the use of treatments for symptoms. Each additional malaria RDT distributed per child younger than 5 years of age was associated with a reduction in child mortality of 0.34 deaths per 1000 child-years (95% CI, 0.15-0.52 deaths per 1000 child-years). The effects of malaria RDT distribution on medication use and child mortality varied across prevalence settings (low vs high) for malaria; there were survival improvements only in areas that had a high prevalence of malaria.Conclusions and RelevanceIncreasing distribution of malaria RDTs was associated with increased blood testing, increased use of antimalarial drugs, and modestly improved survival in children younger than 5 years of age in su","PeriodicalId":518009,"journal":{"name":"JAMA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}