Patient Information

This JAMA Patient Page summarizes the USPSTF 2020 guideline recommending that physicians ask all adults about tobacco use, advise them to stop using tobacco, and provide behavioral interventions and drugs shown effective for stopping cigarette and other tobacco use.

This JAMA Patient Page describes the symptoms of prolactinomas, benign tumors of the pituitary gland, and explains how they are diagnosed and treated.

This JAMA Patient Page summarizes the benefits and possible harms of taking bisphosphonates for postmenopausal osteoporosis (age-related thinning of bones).

This JAMA Patient Page describes Peyronie disease, a scarring of tissue in the penis that may affect sexual function, and available procedural treatment options.

This JAMA Patient Page describes the causes, symptoms and signs, and treatments, including medication (eg, proton pump inhibitors) and surgery (eg, fundoplication), for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

This JAMA Patient Page reviews the US Preventive Services Task Force’s 2020 recommendation to screen for hepatitis B infection in adolescents and adults at increased risk (B recommendation).

This JAMA Patient Page describes the groups of people who are at high risk of complications from influenza infection, how to reduce risk through vaccination, and steps high-risk people should take if they develop influenza symptoms.

This JAMA Patient Page describes the 3 surgical techniques used to divert urine away from the bladder as a part of surgical treatment of bladder cancer.

This JAMA Patient Page describes what herd immunity is, how it limits disease spread, and how it is achieved in a population either by vaccination or by infection and recovery from a disease.

This JAMA Patient Page reviews the 2020 US Preventive Services Task Force’s recommendation to offer behavioral counseling to promote healthy diet and physical activity to prevent cardiovascular disease in adults with CVD risk factors (B recommendation).

This JAMA Patient Page summarizes treatment options for early, invasive, and advanced bladder cancer.

This JAMA Patient Page summarizes the 2020 USPSTF recommendation statement on blood pressure screening in children, which concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of the practice (I statement).

This JAMA Patient Page describes the risk of acquiring the COVID-19 virus associated with air travel, steps that airlines and airports are taking to mitigate risk, and steps that passengers can take to reduce their risk.