May 14, 2008, Vol 299, No. 18, Pages 2121-2232

This Week in JAMA

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A Piece of My Mind

Crying for My Grandmother

Jeanne Bereiter, MD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2129-2130. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2129

Original Contribution

Combined Screening With Ultrasound and Mammography vs Mammography Alone in Women at Elevated Risk of Breast Cancer

Wendie A. Berg, MD, PhD; Jeffrey D. Blume, PhD; Jean B. Cormack, PhD; et al.

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2151-2163. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2151

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Editorial
The “Coming of Age” of Nonmammographic Screening for Breast Cancer
Christiane K. Kuhl, MD

Effect of Clopidogrel on Early Failure of Arteriovenous Fistulas for Hemodialysis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Laura M. Dember, MD; Gerald J. Beck, PhD; Michael Allon, MD; et al.

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2164-2171. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2164

Editorial
Randomized Trials in Hemodialysis Patients: Time to Step Up to the Plate
Marcello Tonelli, MD, SM, FRCPC

Coarse Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases Among Medicare Patients

Roger D. Peng, PhD; Howard H. Chang, BS; Michelle L. Bell, PhD; et al.

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2172-2179. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2172

Comparison of Change in Quality of Care Between Safety-Net and Non–Safety-Net Hospitals

Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD; L. Elizabeth Goldman, MD, MCR; R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2180-2187. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2180

Editorial

The “Coming of Age” of Nonmammographic Screening for Breast Cancer

Christiane K. Kuhl, MD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2203-2205. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2203

Randomized Trials in Hemodialysis Patients: Time to Step Up to the Plate

Marcello Tonelli, MD, SM, FRCPC

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2205-2207. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2205

Grand Rounds

Clinician's Corner

A Family's Request for Complementary Medicine After Patient Brain Death

Arthur Isak Applbaum, PhD; Jon C. Tilburt, MD, MPH; Michael T. Collins, MD; et al.

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2188-2193. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2188

Medical News & Perspectives

Effects of West Nile Virus May Persist

Rebecca Voelker

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2135-2136. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2135

Sugar Substitutes Linked to Weight Gain

Tracy Hampton, PhD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2137-2138. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2137

Advocates Seek Better Insurance Coverage for Amputees Needing Limb Prostheses

Mike Mitka

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2138-2140. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2138

New Stress Test Agents Reduce Adverse Effects

Mike Mitka

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2140. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2140

News From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Trends in Tuberculosis—United States, 2007

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2142-2144. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2142

Hospitalization Discharge Diagnoses for Kidney Disease—United States, 1980-2005

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Capitol Health Call

Newborn Screening Bill

Mike Mitka

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2141. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2141-a

Baby Bottle Safety

Mike Mitka

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Lead Paint Rule Criticized

Mike Mitka

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Health Reform Hearing

Mike Mitka

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Letters

Surgical vs Behavioral Therapy for Weight Loss in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Rena R. Wing, PhD; Thomas A. Wadden, PhD; Mark Espeland, PhD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2146-2147. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2146-a

Surgical vs Behavioral Therapy for Weight Loss in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes—Reply

John B. Dixon, MBBS, PhD; Paul E. O’Brien, MD; Joseph Proietto, MBBS, PhD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2146-2147. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2146-b

Legislating Screening for Atherosclerosis

Erling Falk, MD, PhD; Morteza Naghavi, MD; P. K. Shah, MD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2147-2148. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2147

Legislating Screening for Atherosclerosis—Reply

Peter D. Jacobson, JD, MPH

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2147-2148. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2148-a

Nomenclature in Translational Research

Kevin Fiscella, MD, MPH; Nancy M. Bennett, MD, MS; Peter G. Szilagyi, MD, MPH

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2148-2150. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2148-b

Nomenclature in Translational Research

Ian D. Graham, PhD; Jacqueline Tetroe, MA

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2148-2150. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2149-a

Nomenclature in Translational Research—Reply

Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH

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The Cover

Breakfast With a Lobster

M. Therese Southgate, MD

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Poetry and Medicine

Development

Grey Brown

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JAMA Patient Page

Brain Death

Janet M. Torpy, MD; Jennifer L. Kincaid; Richard M. Glass, MD

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Correction

Incorrect Data in: Managing an Acute Pain Crisis in a Patient With Advanced Cancer: “This Is as Much of a Crisis as a Code”

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Incorrect Legend in: How to Interpret a Genome-wide Association Study

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Unreported Research Funding in: Exhaled Carbon Monoxide With Waterpipe Use in US Students

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Commentary

The Wisdom and Justice of Not Paying for “Preventable Complications”

Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD; Christine A. Goeschel, RN, MPA, MPS; Robert M. Wachter, MD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2197-2199. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2197

Barcoded Medication Administration: A Last Line of Defense

David W. Cescon, MD; Edward Etchells, MD, MSc

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2200-2202. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2200

From the Archives Journals

Potential Health Risks of Air Pollution Beyond Triggering Acute Cardiopulmonary Events

Robert D. Brook, MD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2194-2196. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2194

JAMA 100 Years Ago

THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS.

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2220. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2220

Book and Media Reviews

Atlas of Heart Failure

Ruth Falik, MD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2209. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2209

Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Principles and Practice

Colleen G. Koch, MD, MS

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2210-2211. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2210

Ocular Traumatology

Jay I. Perlman, MD, PhD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2211-2212. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2211

Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Disease

Douglas Kalman, PhD, RD; Diane R. Krieger, MD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2212-2213. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2212

Emergency Sedation and Pain Management

Devi E. Nampiaparampil, MD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2213-2214. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2213

The White House Physician: A History from Washington to George W. Bush

Christopher Hamlin, PhD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2214-2216. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2214

Literatim

The Billy Goat War: Morris Fishbein and the AMA's Crusade Against America's Consummate Quack, John Brinkley

Howard Markel, MD, PhD

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JAMA. 2008;299(18):2217-2219. doi:10.1001/jama.299.18.2217

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