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This cohort study uses data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database to examine perinatal outcomes among offspring associated with maternal use of statins during pregnancy.
This survey-based study of US adults from gender and sexual minority populations examines self-reported behaviors to save money on prescription medications, including skipping doses, purchasing from other countries, delaying refills, taking less medication, and using alternative therapies.
This Review summarizes current evidence regarding the efficacy, adverse effects, and optimal selection of reversible contraceptives, including oral contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices and subdermal implants, and condoms.
This Medical News feature examines recent developments involving medication abortions outside traditional health care channels.
This cohort study evaluates factors potentially associated with participant-reported adverse effects after COVID-19 vaccination.
This randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of therapeutic drug monitoring vs standard therapy on sustained disease control without disease worsening among patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn disease, or psoriasis) undergoing maintenance therapy with infliximab.
This JAMA Insights in the Women’s Health series reviews commonly used prescription and over-the-counter products during pregnancy, including safety data, available resources for guidance, and the need for clinicians to counsel patients before pregnancy, when possible, about medication use.
This comparative effectiveness research study evaluates whether receipt of intravenous acetaminophen before receipt of intravenous opioid is associated with a reduction in intravenous opioid duration.
This 5-year follow-up secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial analyzed survival outcomes and late toxic effects to assess the efficacy of nedaplatin-based concurrent chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of stage II to IVB nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
This randomized clinical trial examines whether a values affirmation writing exercise improves medication adherence and whether the effect differs by patient race and ethnicity.
This cohort study assesses whether double-dose cefuroxime surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis was associated with the rate of surgical site infection in patients weighing at least 80 kg.
This comparative effectiveness analysis assesses whether the overall survival benefit of biologic drugs in White patients is similar to that for Black patients in a real-world setting using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Result (SEER)–Medicare linked database.
This cross-sectional study characterizes the mechanisms of action of anticancer drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 2009 and 2020, noting how many approvals were based on a new mechanism of action vs next-in-class drugs.
This scoping review characterizes the clinical evidence supporting the use of repository corticotropin for its Food and Drug Administration–approved indications.
This cross-sectional study of claims data from 24 million US patients in a nationwide commercial insurance database assesses patterns of pain management treatment in the period before the COVID-19 pandemic vs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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