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This JAMA Patient Page describes recent advancements in hepatitis C treatment.
This Viewpoint describes the importance of bias and heuristics to patient choices in palliative care and other types of health care.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the US Preventive Services Task Force’s recommendations on interventions to prevent child maltreatment.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedure and its purposes.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the US Preventive Services Task Force’s recent recommendations on screening and counseling to reduce unhealthy alcohol use.
This Patient Page defines palliative care and explains who may most benefit, when it is most appropriate, and which clinicians might help administer it.
This JAMA Patient Page describes reasons for blood pressure self-monitoring and the steps involved in the procedure.
This Patient Page examines the transmission, symptoms, and treatment of gonorrhea infection.
This Patient Page describes vasculitis, focusing especially on skin vasculitis, how to recognize it, and how it might be treated.
This Patient Page provides information on insomnia—how to recognize it and how it is best treated.
This Patient Page describes candidates for cardiac rehabilitation and how it can help treat cardiovascular disease.
This Patient Page provides information on pityriasis rosea, a common cutaneous erruption that is more prevelent in older children and young adults.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the US Preventive Services Task Force’s recent recommendations on screening for intimate partner violence, elder abuse, and abuse of vulnerable adults.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of gallstones and biliary colic.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of choledocholithiasis.
This JAMA Patient Page describes tinea versicolor and its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of gallbladder cancer.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the US Preventive Services Task Force’s recent recommendations on behavioral interventions for weight loss to prevent obesity-related problems in adults.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the different types of hospitals in the United States and how to assess the specific health care services that they provide.
This Patient Page defines the some of the important terms and techniques that cancer researchers use to measure and report their findings.
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