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  • The US FDA’s New Rule for Regulating Laboratory-Developed Tests

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    JAMA Health Forum. 2024; 5(10):e242917. 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2917

    This Viewpoint discusses potential benefits and obstacles regarding US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of laboratory-developed tests.

  • Who Will Save Legal Access to Emergency Abortion?

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    JAMA. 2024; 332(14):1141-1142. 10.1001/jama.2024.14605

    This Viewpoint discusses whether the federal EMTALA act requires that hospitals provide abortions when needed to protect the health of the pregnant person, even if prohibited by state law.

  • Checks and Balances on FDA’s Authority

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    JAMA. 2024; 332(9):705-706. 10.1001/jama.2024.11987

    In this Viewpoint, the authors refute recent suggestions that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not accountable for its decisions, pointing out the legal, legislative, and executive checks and balances on the agency.

  • Developing an Ethics and Policy Framework for Psychedelic Clinical Care: A Consensus Statement

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    JAMA Netw Open. 2024; 7(6):e2414650. 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.14650

    This consensus statement identifies key ethics and policy issues for the future integration of psychedelic therapies into clinical practice.

  • Essentials of Informed Consent to Psychedelic Medicine

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    JAMA Psychiatry. 2024; 81(6):611-617. 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0184

    This Special Communication discusses the essential elements of designing and implementing informed consent practices for psychedelic medicine.

  • The Alabama Embryo Decision—The Politics and Reality of Recognizing “Extrauterine Children”

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    JAMA. 2024; 331(13):1083-1084. 10.1001/jama.2024.3559

    This Viewpoint discusses the Alabama Supreme Court’s opinion on in vitro fertilization and how it plays into a larger push for fetal and embryonic personhood.

  • State Approaches to Stopping Violence Against Health Care Workers

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    JAMA. 2024; 331(10):825-826. 10.1001/jama.2024.1140

    This Viewpoint examines current state-level approaches to addressing the increased incidence of violence against health care workers, as well as how laws are adapting to protect health care personnel.

  • The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act—a Bipartisan Step Forward

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    JAMA Health Forum. 2024; 5(2):e235386. 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.5386

    This Viewpoint describes key provisions of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and discuss the proposed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rule, as well as its application to health care employment in particular.

  • Options for Building a Diverse Health Care Workforce—Reply

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    JAMA. 2024; 331(4):358-358. 10.1001/jama.2023.23400
  • Lawsuits Over the Price of Insulin—State Efforts for Insulin Access

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    JAMA Intern Med. 2023; 184(1):9-10. 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.6331

    This Viewpoint discusses the litigation strategy of state-initiated lawsuits alleging illegal and immoral conduct regarding the pricing of insulin by pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy benefit managers.

  • AI as a Mental Health Therapist for Adolescents

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    JAMA Pediatr. 2023; 177(12):1253-1254. 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.4215

    This Viewpoint discusses benefits and risks of using conversational artificial intelligence platforms to deliver psychotherapy to adolescents.

  • Affirmative Action Ruled Unconstitutional: Options for Building a Diverse Health Care Workforce

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    JAMA. 2023; 330(11):1031-1032. 10.1001/jama.2023.14886

    This Viewpoint reviews how the recent US Supreme Court decision regarding affirmative action affects extant medical school admission policies seeking to enhance diversity of the national medical student body and its derivative national health care workforce.

  • Maternal Mortality Crisis and Extension of Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

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    JAMA. 2023; 330(10):911-912. 10.1001/jama.2023.15380

    This Viewpoint discusses the maternal mortality crisis in the US, the need for an extension of Medicaid postpartum coverage, and the residual challenges across the US related to maternal health.

  • The FDA Declares Levonorgestrel a Nonabortifacient—A 50-Year Saga Takes a Decisive Turn

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    JAMA Health Forum. 2023; 4(8):e232257. 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.2257

    This Viewpoint discusses recent judicial developments and the newly-enunciated FDA position that levonorgestrel is a nonabortifacient.

  • The New Threat to Abortion Access in the United States—The Comstock Act

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    JAMA. 2023; 330(5):405-406. 10.1001/jama.2023.9360

    This Viewpoint explains the history of the Comstock Act, its use by those seeking to restrict abortion, and why it threatens abortion access in the US.

  • The Challenges for Regulating Medical Use of ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models

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    JAMA. 2023; 330(4):315-316. 10.1001/jama.2023.9651

    This Viewpoint discusses how regulators across the world should approach the legal and ethical challenges, including privacy, device regulation, competition, intellectual property rights, cybersecurity, and liability, raised by the medical use of large language models.

  • Assessing—and Extending—California’s Insulin Manufacturing Initiative

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    JAMA. 2023; 329(7):533-534. 10.1001/jama.2023.0013

    This Viewpoint reviews California’s recently proposed CalRx initiative to manufacture biosimilar insulin, highlights challenges facing the initiative, and suggests ways in which, if successful, the initiative could serve as a model for state-managed development of drugs other than insulin, reduce drug prices, and provide other benefits.

  • Should the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response Lead the National Response to a Public Health Emergency?

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    JAMA Health Forum. 2023; 4(1):e224824. 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.4824

    This Viewpoint examines the future role of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • The FDA Struggle to Withdraw Makena: Problems With the Accelerated Approval Process

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    JAMA. 2022; 328(24):2394-2395. 10.1001/jama.2022.22986

    This Viewpoint discusses the controversy surrounding the FDA’s efforts to withdraw Makena from the market and the broader implications for the accelerated approval pathway.

  • The End of Anonymous Sperm Donation in Colorado: A Step Forward to a New Fertility Future in the US?

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    JAMA. 2022; 328(19):1903-1904. 10.1001/jama.2022.19471

    This Viewpoint discusses the new Colorado law prohibiting anonymous gamete donation and other debates over reproductive technologies and secrecy.