{"title":"Excessive Daytime Napping Tied to Mortality in Older Adults.","authors":"Samantha Anderer","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.2134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.2134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Study Finds No Link Between Acetaminophen Use in Pregnancy and Autism.","authors":"Samantha Anderer","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.2130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.2130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual Neurology Visits Comparable With In-Person for Initial Evaluations.","authors":"Samantha Anderer","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.2135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.2135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kratom Use and Severe Health Outcomes Surge in the US.","authors":"Samantha Anderer","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.2131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.2131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"These Blood Tests May Detect Dozens of Cancers, but Will They Save Lives?","authors":"Rita Rubin","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.4742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.4742","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syphilis Linked to Higher Risk of Some Cardiovascular Outcomes.","authors":"Samantha Anderer","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.2132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.2132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xianghong Liu, Fan Zhang, Cong Zhang, Zongliang Li, Guangxiong Yuan, Deyan Kong, Shuhua Xie, Min Zhou, Jinchun Ye, Zhaohui Lai, Dan Li, Hailong Xu, Lei Chen, Fangqun Cheng, Yan Shi, Bin Chen, Weihua Hu, Huashi Liu, Yi Yin, Xinbo Deng, Zhiyong Xie, Chunying Li, Junfeng Shi, Donghuan Mei, Bin Liu, Bo Wang, Ruize Zhou, Jingjing Liu, Limin Shen, Hairong Hu, Genxiang Xiao, Xiaoyu Guan, Shanggui Yuan, Xunwei Lv, Shuiping Liang, Xiang Zeng, Yi Chen, Wenfeng Cao, Chong Zheng, Yuanlu Liu, Junda Li, Baozhu Guan, Tianmin Lai, Wei Sun, Hongliang Zeng, Jian Zhang, Shizhan Li, Hongfei Sang, Yamei Tang, Duolao Wang, Mengjie Lu, Johannes Kaesmacher, Vignan Yogendrakumar, Suyue Pan, Raul G Nogueira, Daojun Hong, Mayank Goyal, Götz Thomalla, Thanh N Nguyen, Jeffrey L Saver, Qingwu Yang, Zhongming Qiu, Guoyong Zeng
{"title":"Intravenous Tirofiban After Tenecteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke: The INSTANT Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Xianghong Liu, Fan Zhang, Cong Zhang, Zongliang Li, Guangxiong Yuan, Deyan Kong, Shuhua Xie, Min Zhou, Jinchun Ye, Zhaohui Lai, Dan Li, Hailong Xu, Lei Chen, Fangqun Cheng, Yan Shi, Bin Chen, Weihua Hu, Huashi Liu, Yi Yin, Xinbo Deng, Zhiyong Xie, Chunying Li, Junfeng Shi, Donghuan Mei, Bin Liu, Bo Wang, Ruize Zhou, Jingjing Liu, Limin Shen, Hairong Hu, Genxiang Xiao, Xiaoyu Guan, Shanggui Yuan, Xunwei Lv, Shuiping Liang, Xiang Zeng, Yi Chen, Wenfeng Cao, Chong Zheng, Yuanlu Liu, Junda Li, Baozhu Guan, Tianmin Lai, Wei Sun, Hongliang Zeng, Jian Zhang, Shizhan Li, Hongfei Sang, Yamei Tang, Duolao Wang, Mengjie Lu, Johannes Kaesmacher, Vignan Yogendrakumar, Suyue Pan, Raul G Nogueira, Daojun Hong, Mayank Goyal, Götz Thomalla, Thanh N Nguyen, Jeffrey L Saver, Qingwu Yang, Zhongming Qiu, Guoyong Zeng","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.5245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.5245","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Although recent trials have shown benefit with early tirofiban after thrombolysis, its efficacy remains uncertain in patients with acute ischemic stroke who do not have a large or medium vessel occlusion or a cardioembolic source and who show an inadequate clinical response to intravenous tenecteplase.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the efficacy and safety of intravenous tirofiban administered after an inadequate response to intravenous tenecteplase in this specific patient population.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>Investigator-initiated, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted at 37 hospitals in China, enrolling 359 patients with acute ischemic stroke, without large or medium vessel occlusion or cardioembolic etiology, and with an insufficient clinical response to intravenous tenecteplase (defined as no significant change from baseline, neurological deterioration, or neurological fluctuation based on serial assessment of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score within 4-24 hours after infusion). Recruitment took place between April 24, 2024, and July 16, 2025, with final follow-up on October 11, 2025.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Intravenous tirofiban (n = 177), administered as a 0.3-μg/kg/min bolus over 30 minutes, followed by a continuous infusion of 0.075 μg/kg/min for up to 47.5 hours, or matching placebo (n = 182), initiated within 4 to 24 hours after intravenous tenecteplase. Oral antiplatelet therapy (aspirin and/or clopidogrel) was started 24 hours after thrombolysis in the placebo group and 44 hours after thrombolysis in the tirofiban group and continued in all patients through 90-day follow-up.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was an excellent outcome (defined as a score of 0 or 1 on the modified Rankin Scale; range, 0-6, with higher scores indicating more severe disability) at 90 days. Safety outcomes included incidence of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage within 48 hours and 90-day mortality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 359 patients randomized (mean age, 66 years; 141 females [39.3%]), 358 (99.7%) completed the trial. An excellent outcome at 90 days was observed in 113 patients (63.8%) in the tirofiban group and in 95 patients (52.2%) in the placebo group (risk ratio, 1.22; 95% CI, 1.02-1.46; P = .03). Symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage within 48 hours occurred in 1 patient (0.9%) in the tirofiban group and no patients in the placebo group; 90-day mortality was 0.6% and 1.6%, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Among patients with acute ischemic stroke without large or medium vessel occlusion or a cardioembolic source who had an inadequate clinical response to intravenous tenecteplase, adjunctive intravenous tirofiban increased the likelihood of an excellent outcome at 90 days.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov Iden","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yunyun Xiong, Fengyuan Che, Hao Wang, Manjun Hao, Thanh N Nguyen, Marc Fisher, Aoming Jin, Zhixin Cao, Ziran Wang, Xiaoxi Yao, Ganghua Feng, Yuelong Xu, Shifeng Guo, Hao Qin, Xianjun Huang, Jianxin Xu, Zhongjun Chen, Jinglin Yuan, Wenshuai Li, Wei Hu, Xueyan Feng, Lixia Zong, Wanxing Ye, Chunmiao Duan, Liyuan Wang, Shuangzhe Wu, Bruce C V Campbell, Yongjun Wang
{"title":"Intravenous Tenecteplase Prior to Endovascular Treatment for Ischemic Stroke at 4.5 to 24 Hours: The TNK-PLUS Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Yunyun Xiong, Fengyuan Che, Hao Wang, Manjun Hao, Thanh N Nguyen, Marc Fisher, Aoming Jin, Zhixin Cao, Ziran Wang, Xiaoxi Yao, Ganghua Feng, Yuelong Xu, Shifeng Guo, Hao Qin, Xianjun Huang, Jianxin Xu, Zhongjun Chen, Jinglin Yuan, Wenshuai Li, Wei Hu, Xueyan Feng, Lixia Zong, Wanxing Ye, Chunmiao Duan, Liyuan Wang, Shuangzhe Wu, Bruce C V Campbell, Yongjun Wang","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.4292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.4292","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Whether intravenous tenecteplase prior to endovascular treatment (EVT) for ischemic stroke reduces disability in the late time window is unclear.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the adverse events and efficacy of tenecteplase prior to EVT in patients 4.5 to 24 hours after ischemic stroke onset due to proximal middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>Multicenter, phase 3, randomized, open-label, blinded end point, superiority trial conducted at 40 centers in China. Adult (≥18 years) patients with acute ischemic stroke 4.5 to 24 hours after last known to be well due to MCA-M1 or proximal M2 occlusion with salvageable brain tissue (ischemic core volume <70 mL, mismatch ratio ≥1.8, and mismatch volume ≥15 mL) identified on computed tomography-perfusion or magnetic resonance-perfusion-diffusion imaging were enrolled from January 25, 2024, through July 21, 2025, and followed up for 90 days. Final follow-up occurred on October 14, 2025.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Eligible patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive intravenous tenecteplase (0.25 mg/kg; maximum dose, 25 mg) before EVT (n = 199) or EVT alone (n = 192).</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was functional independence, defined as a score of 0 to 2 on the modified Rankin Scale (range, 0-6, with higher scores indicating greater disability) at 90 days. Adverse events outcomes included symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage and death.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All of the 391 patients enrolled (median age, 68 years [IQR, 59-75]; 155 [39.6%] females) completed the trial. Functional independence at 90 days occurred in 88 patients (44.2%) in the tenecteplase before EVT group and 83 patients (43.2%) in the EVT alone group (adjusted relative rate, 1.01 [95% CI, 0.83-1.24]; P = .89; risk difference, 0.99% [95% CI, -8.84% to 10.83%]). Mortality within 90 days was 12.7% (25/197) in the tenecteplase before EVT group and 14.2% (27/190) in the EVT alone group. Symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage within 36 hours was 5.1% (10/197) and 2.6% (5/190), respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In patients presenting to EVT-capable centers 4.5 to 24 hours after stroke onset with proximal MCA occlusion, intravenous tenecteplase before EVT did not improve clinical outcomes vs EVT alone.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT06221371.</p>","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternative Medicine Use Rises Among US Children.","authors":"Samantha Anderer","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.2133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.2133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intravenous Tirofiban After Tenecteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Research Summary.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jama.2026.5288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.5288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":"e265288"},"PeriodicalIF":55.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}