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Does This Man With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Have Bladder Outlet Obstruction? The Rational Clinical Examination: A Systematic Review

Interview with Karen A. D'Silva, MD, MS, author of Does This Man With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Have Bladder Outlet Obstruction? The Rational Clinical Examination: A Systematic Review




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Clinical and Safety Outcomes Associated With Treatment of Acute Venous Thromboembolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Interview with Marc Carrier, MD, MSc, author of Clinical and Safety Outcomes Associated With Treatment of Acute Venous Thromboembolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis




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Prevalence of Antimicrobial Use in US Acute Care Hospitals, May-September 2011

Interview with Shelley S. Magill, MD, PhD, author of Prevalence of Antimicrobial Use in US Acute Care Hospitals, May-September 2011




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For-Profit Status and Clinical and Economic Outcomes

Interview with Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, author of Association Between Hospital Conversions to For-Profit Status and Clinical and Economic Outcomes




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Inpatient STEMI and Treatment and Clinical Outcomes

Interview with George A. Stouffer, MD, author of Association of Inpatient vs Outpatient Onset of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction With Treatment and Clinical Outcomes




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Resident Duty Hour Reforms and Patient Outcomes

Interview with Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, author of Association of the 2011 ACGME Resident Duty Hour Reforms With Mortality and Readmissions Among Hospitalized Medicare Patients




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Imposition of a MOC Requirement and Outcomes of Care

Interview with Bradley M. Gray, PhD, author of Association Between Imposition of a Maintenance of Certification Requirement and Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Hospitalizations and Health Care Costs




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Trends and Outcomes of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

Interview with Sheree L. Boulet, DrPH, MPH, author of Trends in Use of and Reproductive Outcomes Associated With Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection




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Measuring Surgical Outcomes

Interview with Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, author of Measuring Surgical Outcomes for Improvement: Was Codman Wrong?




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Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Interview with David R. Holmes Jr, MD, author of Clinical Outcomes at 1 Year Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement




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Maternal Diabetes and Autism in Offspring

Interview with Anny H. Xiang, PhD, author of Association of Maternal Diabetes With Autism in Offspring




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Autism Occurrence by MMR Vaccine Status Among US Children

Interview with Anjali Jain, MD, author of Autism Occurrence by MMR Vaccine Status Among US Children With Older Siblings With and Without Autism




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Oral Steroids for Acute Sciatica Due to Herniated Lumbar Disk

Interview with Harley Goldberg, DO, author of Oral Steroids for Acute Radiculopathy Due to a Herniated Lumbar Disk: A Randomized Clinical Trial




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Outcomes for ACOs vs Traditional Medicare Fee for Service

Interview with Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc, author of Association of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations vs Traditional Medicare Fee for Service With Spending, Utilization, and Patient Experience




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ICD Use Among Medicare Patients After Acute MI

Interview with Tracy Y. Wang, MD, MHS, MSc, author of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Use Among Medicare Patients With Low Ejection Fraction After Acute Myocardial Infarction






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Doing Field Work With Doctors Without Borders

Adi Nadimpalli, MD, the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission in Nepal, and the former vice president of the US board of directors, talks about MSF’s mission and the challenges he has faced serving in countries where access to health care is insufficient or strained due to natural or manmade disasters, violent conflicts, epidemics, and population displacement.





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Ruling Out Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients With Chest Pain

ACS is a common and potentially lethal problem. However, only about 10% of patients who present to an emergency department with chest pain actually have ACS. In this JAMA Clinical Reviews podcast, we discuss which signs, symptoms and tests used to make the diagnosis of ACS are reliable.

Edward H. Livingston MD, speaks with Alexander Fanaroff, MD, author of Does This Patient With Chest Pain Have Acute Coronary Syndrome? The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review as well as a patient who was diagnosed with myocardial infarction.










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The High Cost of Pharmaceuticals in the United States

Drug prices continue to rise in the US. Many solutions have been proposed but few have been implemented. Drs. Janet Woodcock from the FDA and Aaron Kesselheim, author of The High Cost of Prescription Drugs in the United States from the Harvard Medical School discuss the role of brand name drugs and generics and how they influence the cost of pharmaceuticals.

Also see The Cost of US Pharmaceutical Price Reductions: A Financial Simulation Model of R&D Decisions by Thomas A. Abbott and John A. Vernon.





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Value-Driven Outcomes Program and Health Care Cost and Quality

Interview with Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA;, author of Implementation of a Value-Driven Outcomes Program to Identify High Variability in Clinical Costs and Outcomes: Association With Reduced Cost and Improved Quality, and Michael E. Porter, PhD, author of From Volume to Value in Health Care: The Work Begins






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Alzheimer Outlook Far From Bleak

Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, of Harvard University, and Berislav Zlokovic, MD, PhD, of the University of Southern California, discuss what the future holds for Alzheimer Disease research and treatment.




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The Effects of Testosterone Gel on Health Outcomes

Can testosterone gel improve memory, correct anemia, increase bone density or prevent the growth of coronary artery plaque in older men with low testosterone levels? Four new studies in JAMA and JAMA Internal Medicine found improvement in some of these measures.

Articles discussed in this episode:

Testosterone Treatment and Coronary Artery Plaque Volume in Older Men With Low Testosterone

Testosterone Treatment and Cognitive Function in Older Men With Low Testosterone and Age-Associated Memory Impairment

Effect of Testosterone Treatment on Volumetric Bone Density and Strength in Older Men With Low Testosterone: A Controlled Clinical Trial

Association of Testosterone Levels With Anemia in Older Men: A Controlled Clinical Trial












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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak – Update From NIAID’s Anthony Fauci, MD

In February 2020 the nature of the 2019-nCoV outbreak is still slowly coming into focus but it appears to be acting more like bad pandemic influenza (efficient spread, overall lower mortality) than like SARS (less efficient spread, overall higher mortality). Anthony Fauci, MD, of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) discusses the latest developments with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner.

Coronavirus Resource Center




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JAMA Author Interviews Becomes “Conversations with Dr Bauchner”

JAMA Author Interviews is taking on a new look! Be sure to subscribe to Conversations with Dr Bauchner, a podcast that features the same insightful interviews with leading researchers and thinkers in health care. Covering a broad range of practice-changing research and important innovations, Conversations with Dr Bauchner is a convenient way to stay current with the most pressing issues facing medicine and healthcare. Listen and subscribe at jamanetworkaudio.com.






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Coronavirus Testing – March 16 Q&A with the CDC’s Jay Butler, MD

Coronavirus testing will help countries manage coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but will raise questions about how to counsel patients about their test results. The CDC's Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay C. Butler, MD, talks with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner about what to advise healthy patients with positive PCR results, sick patients with negative test results, exposed health care workers, and more.




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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: The Near Future

How does the current pandemic compare to historical infectious outbreaks and what can we expect in summer and fall of 2020? Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, director of the Human Nature Lab, Co-director of the Institute of Network Science, and Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, discusses the epidemiology of COVID-19.




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Coronavirus Q&A: Former Utah Governor and HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt

US states are taking the lead in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. What can state governors expect from the federal government and from the US Department of Health and Human Services? Governor Mike Leavitt from Leavitt Partners joins JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD, in this live Q&A. Recorded April 8, 2020.





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Chasing the red queen : the evolutionary race between agricultural pests and poisons / Andy Dyer

Dyer, Andy, author