Interview with Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, author of Association of Pembrolizumab With Tumor Response and Survival Among Patients With Advanced Melanoma

Christine Curry, MD, PhD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Miami, discusses the challenges of keeping pregnant patients and her colleagues well-informed of the facts as Zika virus fears circulate.

Lyme disease is very common in certain regions of the country and is caused by the spirochete Borrelia bergdorferi. Lyme disease is transmitted by tick bites and in this podcast we review the discovery of Lyme disease, its major clinical features, and how to diagnose and treat it, as told by Dr Alan Steere, Dr Lyndon Hu, and Dr Paul Auerwerter.

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Interview with Axel Linke, MD, author of Effect of a Cerebral Protection Device on Brain Lesions Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis: The CLEAN-TAVI Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Roger L. Zemek, MD, author of Association Between Early Participation in Physical Activity Following Acute Concussion and Persistent Postconcussive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents

Workplace violence–related injuries occur disproportionately in health care settings. In this podcast, we discuss how individual clinicians should manage violent patients who might attack them. Article discussed in this episode: Ensuring Staff Safety When Treating Potentially Violent Patients

Interview with Maureen G. Phipps, MD, MPH, Task Force member and co-author of Screening for Gynecologic Conditions With Pelvic Examination: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Susan J. Curry, PhD, author of Behavioral Counseling to Promote a Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Risk Factors: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Alex R Kemper, MD, MPH, MS, Task Force member and co-author of Vision Screening in Children Aged 6 Months to 5 Years: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with John W Epling, MD, MSEd, Task Force member and co-author of Behavioral Counseling to Prevent Skin Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Alex H Krist, MD, MPH, Task Force member and co-author of Vitamin D, Calcium, or Combined Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Fractures in Community-Dwelling Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement, and Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Carol M Mangione, MD MSPH, Task Force member and co-author of Screening for Cervical Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Chyke A Doubeni, M.D., F.R.C.S., M.P.H., Task Force member and co-author of Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with John W Epling, MD, MSEd, Task Force member and co-author of Screening for Intimate Partner Violence, Elder Abuse, and Abuse of Vulnerable Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Final Recommendation Statement

Interview with David A. Asch, MD, MBA, author of The Uncertain Effect of Financial Incentives to Improve Health Behaviors

Interview with John A. Baron, M.D., author of Vitamin D as Cancer Therapy?: Insights From 2 New Trials

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Durable Control of HIV Infection in the Absence of Antiretroviral Therapy: Opportunities and Obstacles

Interview with Marissa A. Hendrickson, MD, author of The Review of Systems, the Electronic Health Record, and Billing

Interview with John W Epling, MD, MSEd, Task Force member and co-author of Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Melissa A Simon, MD MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Pregnant Women: US Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement

Interview with Joanna Paladino, MD, author of Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients: Beyond Survival Statistics

Interview with Benjamin Daniel Sommers, MD, PhD, author of Medicaid Expansion and Health: Assessing the Evidence After Five Years

Interview with William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, author of Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings

Interview with Pascale Carayon, PhD, author of Improving the System to Support Clinician Well-being and Provide Better Patient Care

Interview with Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, author of Improving the Residency Application and Selection Process: An Optional Early Result Acceptance Program

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold

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.

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By mid-February 2020 there were 60,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the vast majority diagnosed in Hubei Province (including Wuhan city) in mainland China. China CDC Chief Epidemiologist Zunyou Wu, MD, PhD discusses the latest COVID-19 developments in the country with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner, MD.

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Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., author of The Inevitable Reimagining of Medical Education

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, Task Force member and coauthor of Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Coronavirus testing, mortality, vaccine development, containment vs mitigation, and more. JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD, interviews US NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, about the latest developments in SARS-CoV-2 science and global spread of infection.

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Physicians in Lombardy, Italy, have been overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients requiring critical care. Based on an existing ECMO center network they developed an ICU network to rapidly identify, triage, and manage patients infected with SARS-2-CoV. Maurizio Cecconi, MD, of Humanitas University in Milan discusses the region’s approach to the surge, including clinical and supply management, health care worker training and protection, and ventilation strategies, with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner.

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Critical Care Utilization for the COVID-19 Outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: Early Experience and Forecast During an Emergency Response

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.

Diagnostic testing, NSAIDs, ACE Inhibitors, antivirals, and more. Anthony Fauci, MD from NIAID discusses latest developments in the spread and clinical management of COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD.

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The strategy for managing the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted from containment to mitigation. What does that mean for US hospitals and health systems? Kaiser Permanente Executive Vice President Stephen M. Parodi, MD, discusses telemedicine, protecting health care workers, equipment allocation planning, and more.

The ARDS in COVID-19 patients appears more responsive to PEEP and prone ventilation, but seems to require prolonged ventilation and may be associated with myocardial injury. Michelle N. Gong, MD, MS, Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, discusses her department's experience managing critically ill coronavirus patients, procuring diagnostic tests and personal protective equipment (PPE) for her staff, and more.

As COVID-19 spreads globally, populations who survive their illness will become immune. Mayo Vaccine Research Group Director Gregory Poland, MD, discusses antibody responses, duration of immunity, vaccine safety, and the prospects for using convalescent serum to passively immunize people unexposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Hospitals need ways to make rational, fair decisions about who gets ICU beds and ventilators if COVID-19 patients overwhelm capacity. Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, Director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses a framework for those decisions and a guideline he helped develop for allocation of scarce resources in public health emergencies.

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.

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV), working with dying patients’ families, use of experimental therapies, and more. JAMA Associate Editor Derek Angus, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, provides a COVID-19 ICU management update.

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Infectious epidemics have always driven change and triggered discrimination in human societies. Frank Snowden, DPhil, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University and author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Yale University Press, 2019), puts the COVID-19 pandemic in historical context.

Questions about testing, chloroquine toxicity, duration of immunity and reinfection, and what to expect next are gripping the US as the novel coronavirus spreads. JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, professor of medicine and Chief Health Officer at the University of Michigan, discusses recent developments in a live conversation with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner. Recorded on April 6, 2020.

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.

New York City coronavirus update from Mitchell Katz, MD, President and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal public health system in the United States. Recorded April 13, 2020.

JAMA Health Forum editors John Ayanian, MD, MPP, and Melinda Buntin, PhD, discuss changes in US health care and health policy driven by the coronavirus pandemic. Recorded April 16, 2020.

Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, of Harvard University discusses public health strategies and policies for lifting shelter-in-place and quarantine and for returning the US to a new post-first-wave normal. Recorded Monday April 20, 2020.

Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, an infectious diseases epidemiologist developing biological and modeling approaches to pathogen transmission and outbreaks, discusses evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in summer and fall 2020. Originally recorded April 22, 2020.

The US spends more on health care as a proportion of its GDP than any other nation. Will the COVID-19 pandemic reduce or accelerate that spending? Sherry Glied, PhD, Dean and Professor of Public Service at New York University, explains. Recorded Monday, April 27, 2020.

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The Potential Effects of Coronavirus on National Health Expenditures

Anne Schuchat, MD, Principal Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), discusses evolution of CDC guidance and latest developments in the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded Friday May 1, 2020.