October 15, 2003, Vol 290, No. 15, Pages 1953-2088

This Week in JAMA

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Original Contribution

Results of Therapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Black and White Children

Ching-Hon Pui, MD; John T. Sandlund, MD; Deqing Pei, MS; et al.

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2001-2007. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2001

Editorial
Race and Outcome in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
William L. Carroll, MD

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Survival Variability by Race and Ethnicity in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Nina S. Kadan-Lottick, MD, MSPH; Kirsten K. Ness, MPH; Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH; et al.

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2008-2014. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2008

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Race and Outcome in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
William L. Carroll, MD

JAMA

Exercise Plus Behavioral Management in Patients With Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Linda Teri, PhD; Laura E. Gibbons, PhD; Susan M. McCurry, PhD; et al.

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2015-2022. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2015

Relationships Between Poverty and Psychopathology: A Natural Experiment

E. Jane Costello, PhD; Scott N. Compton, PhD; Gordon Keeler, MS; et al.

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2023-2029. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2023

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Poverty and Child Mental Health: Natural Experiments and Social Causation
Michael Rutter, MD

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Unique Lipoprotein Phenotype and Genotype Associated With Exceptional Longevity

Nir Barzilai, MD; Gil Atzmon, PhD; Clyde Schechter, MD, MA; et al.

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2030-2040. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2030

Editorial

Race and Outcome in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

William L. Carroll, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2061-2063. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2061

Poverty and Child Mental Health: Natural Experiments and Social Causation

Michael Rutter, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2063-2064. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2063

Caring for the Critically Ill Patient

Glucose Control and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

Simon J. Finney, MBChB, MRCP; Cornelia Zekveld, BSc; Andi Elia, BSc; et al.

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2041-2047. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2041

Medical News & Perspectives

Studying Cancer in 3 Dimensions

M. J. Friedrich

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1977-1979. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1977

Gene Studies, Anti-TNF Therapy Take Lasker Honors

Mike Mitka

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New Centers to Focus on Health Disparities

Mike Mitka

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1983. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1983

News From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis, January-June 2003

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1986-1987. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1986

Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Morbidity— United States, 2000

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1987-1988. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1987

The World in Medicine

Gene-Stroke Link Found

Joan Stephenson, PhD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1984. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1984-a

Helping Platelets Chill Out

Joan Stephenson, PhD

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Heat Wave Deaths

Joan Stephenson, PhD

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PAHO Influenza Plan

Joan Stephenson, PhD

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Letters

Treatment of Depression by Mental Health Specialists and Primary Care Physicians—Reply

Allen J. Dietrich, MD; Thomas E. Oxman, MD; John W. Williams, Jr, MD, MHS

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1991-1993. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1991-a

Treatment of Depression by Mental Health Specialists and Primary Care PhysiciansTreatment of Depression by Mental Health Specialists and Primary Care Physicians

Mark H. Ebell, MD, MS

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1991-1993. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1991-a

Treatment of Depression by Mental Health Specialists and Primary Care PhysiciansTreatment of Depression by Mental Health Specialists and Primary Care Physicians

Harold Alan Pincus, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1991-1993. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1991-a

Treatment of Depression by Mental Health Specialists and Primary Care Physicians

Ronald C. Kessler, PhD; Olga Demler, MS; Robert Jin, MA; et al.

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1991-1993. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1991-a

Cost-effectiveness of Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection

David Bernstein, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1993-1994. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1993-a

Cost-effectiveness of Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C InfectionCost-effectiveness of Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection

Gregory J. Dore, MD, MPH, PhD; Hla-Hla Thein, MD, MPH

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1993-1994. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1993-a

Cost-effectiveness of Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection

Joshua A. Salomon, PhD; Sue J. Goldie, MD, MPH

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1993-1994. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1993-a

Prescription Drug Benefits and Health Status Among Medicare Patients—Reply

Richard Moldawsky, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1994-1995. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1994-a

Cost-effectiveness of Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection—Reply

Chien-Wen Tseng, MD, MPH; Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPH

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1994-1995. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1994-a

Communicating Life Expectancy to Patients With Terminal IllnessCommunicating Life Expectancy to Patients With Terminal Illness

Gary N. Fox, MD

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State Legislation and Use of Feeding Tubes in Cognitively Impaired Patients

Daniel D. Buff, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1995-1996. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1995-a

Communicating Life Expectancy to Patients With Terminal Illness

Susan L. Mitchell, MD, MPH; Joan M. Teno, MD; Vincent Mor, PhD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1995-1996. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1995-a

Processes and Outcomes of Care Among Navajo Women With Breast Cancer

David R. Flum, MD, MPH; Susan Stuart, MD; Michael Wilcox, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):1996-1997. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.1996-a

The Cover

Catharina Hooft With Her Nurse

M. Therese Southgate, MD

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Poetry and Medicine

Morning Light

John Savoie

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Contempo Updates

Clinician's Corner

Important Causes of Visual Impairment in the World Today

Nathan G. Congdon, MD, MPH; David S. Friedman, MD, MPH; Thomas Lietman, MD

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JAMA Patient Page

Causes of Visual Impairment

Janet M. Torpy, MD; Cassio Lynm, MA; Richard M. Glass, MD

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Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life

Care of the Dying Doctor: On the Other End of the Stethoscope

Erik Fromme, MD; J. Andrew Billings, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2048-2055. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2048

Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life: CODA

Complexities in Prognostication in Advanced Cancer: "To Help Them Live Their Lives the Way They Want to"

Amy J. Markowitz, JD; Stephen J. McPhee, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2056. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2056

JAMA 100 Years Ago

THE EVIL OF EPONYMS.

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Books, Journals, New Media

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P. H. Pinkerton, MD, FRCP

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History

Brian C. Reed, MD

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Pediatrics

Jeffrey P. Brosco, MD, PhD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2067-2068. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2067

Geriatrics

James R. Sowers, MD

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JAMA. 2003;290(15):2068-2069. doi:10.1001/jama.290.15.2068

Charcot

Allan Beveridge, FRC Psych, MPhil

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Books, Journals, New Media Received

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