{"title":"The Black Prisoners of Stateville: Race, Research, and Reckoning at the Dawn of Precision Medicine.","authors":"Hannah Allen, James Tabery","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.8024","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jama.2025.8024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":"209-211"},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144267910","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":"Audio Highlights: June 20, 2025.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.18878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.18878","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":"334 3","pages":"e2418878"},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144638743","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}
James D Berry, Nicholas Maragakis, Sabrina Paganoni
{"title":"CNM-Au8 in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-Reply.","authors":"James D Berry, Nicholas Maragakis, Sabrina Paganoni","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.5825","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jama.2025.5825","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":"278"},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144327789","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":"Addressing Inaccuracies in American Indian and Alaska Native Health Data Is a Work in Progress.","authors":"Mary Owen, Matthew Tobey","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.9540","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jama.2025.9540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":"217-218"},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144310838","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":"Plant Pathology and Medicine.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.18893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.18893","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144602288","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":"Equity in Obesity Awareness.","authors":"Nilay S Shah, Sadiya S Khan","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.10877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.10877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144602285","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":"Ownership of Americans' Health Care.","authors":"Mark Robinson Levy","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.7482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.7482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144602286","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}
David U Himmelstein, Robert Kuttner, Steffie Woolhandler
{"title":"Ownership of Americans' Health Care-Reply.","authors":"David U Himmelstein, Robert Kuttner, Steffie Woolhandler","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.7485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.7485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144602287","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":"Robotic vs Laparoscopic Surgery for Middle and Low Rectal Cancer: The REAL Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Qingyang Feng, Weitang Yuan, Taiyuan Li, Bo Tang, Baoqing Jia, Yanbing Zhou, Wei Zhang, Ren Zhao, Cheng Zhang, Longwei Cheng, Xiaoqiao Zhang, Ye Wei, Fei Liang, Guodong He, Jianmin Xu","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.8123","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jama.2025.8123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Robotic surgery for rectal cancer is widely used, but data on long-term oncological outcomes are still lacking.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare the 3-year locoregional recurrence rates of middle and low rectal cancer in patients who underwent robotic surgery vs conventional laparoscopic surgery.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>In this multicenter, superiority, randomized clinical trial, patients with middle or low rectal adenocarcinoma (cT1-T3, N0-N1, or ycT1-T3 Nx) and no distant metastasis were enrolled at 11 centers across 8 provinces in China from July 2016 to December 2020. Among the 1742 consecutive patients assessed for eligibility, 1240 were eligible and randomized. Follow-up continued until December 31, 2023.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Patients were randomized 1:1 to undergo robotic or conventional laparoscopic rectal cancer resection.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was the 3-year locoregional recurrence rate. The primary analysis was performed as randomized, but excluded patients deemed ineligible after randomization. The secondary outcomes included disease-free survival; overall survival; and urinary, sexual, and defecation function.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 1240 patients enrolled, 1171 were included in the primary analysis (586 in the robotic surgery group; mean age, 59.1 [SD, 11.0] years; and 356 were men [60.8%] vs 585 in the laparoscopic surgery group; mean age, 60.7 [SD, 9.8] years; and 354 were men [60.5%]). The median follow-up time was 43.0 months (IQR, 36.7-60.0 months). The 3-year locoregional recurrence rate was 1.6% (95% CI, 0.6%-2.6%) in the robotic group vs 4.0% (95% CI, 2.4%-5.6%) in the laparoscopic group (hazard ratio [HR], 0.45 [95% CI, 0.22-0.92], log-rank P = .03; adjusted HR, 0.39 [95% CI, 0.19-0.80]). The 3-year disease-free survival rate was higher in the robotic group (87.2%) vs the laparoscopic group (83.4%) (HR, 0.74 [95% CI, 0.56-0.98], log-rank P = .04; adjusted HR, 0.67 [95% CI, 0.50-0.89]). No significant between-group difference was observed in 3-year overall survival (94.7% in the robotic group vs 93.0% in the laparoscopic group). Patients in the robotic group also had better urinary function, male and female sexual function, and defecation function at 3 and 6 months after surgery and better urinary function and male sexual function at 12 months after surgery.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery significantly improved long-term oncological outcomes in patients with middle or low rectal cancer. With additional real-world clinical data and modern, improved training programs for surgeons, robotic surgery could be the preferred choice for patients with middle or low rectal cancer.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02817126.</p>","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":"136-148"},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12131176/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144210278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poetry, Memory, and Medicine.","authors":"Rafael Campo","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.3398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.3398","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54909,"journal":{"name":"Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":"334 2","pages":"185"},"PeriodicalIF":63.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144585704","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}