March 5, 2014 Issue of JAMA

March 5, 2014, Vol 311, No. 9, Pages 877-978

This Week in JAMA

Highlights

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Podcast: Warfarin for afib patients with CKD, housing mobility in childhood and adolescent mental health, review of management of tremor, and more.

Original Investigation

Warfarin, Kidney Dysfunction, and Outcomes Following Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Juan Jesús Carrero, PhD(Pharm and Med); Marie Evans, MD, PhD; Karolina Szummer, MD, PhD; et al.

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):919-928. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.1334

Carrero and coauthors study outcomes associated with warfarin treatment in relation to kidney function among 24鈥�317 patients after myocardial infarction (MI) in Sweden from 2003 to 2010. In an Editorial, Winkelmayer discusses whether these findings should change clinical practice in caring for patients with atrial fibrillation worldwide.

Podcast: Warfarin, Kidney Dysfunction, and Outcomes Following Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Editorial
Warfarin Treatment in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: Sins of Omission or Commission?
Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, MD, MPH, ScD; Mintu P. Turakhia, MD, MAS

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Association Between Casino Opening or Expansion and Risk of Childhood Overweight and Obesity

Jessica C. Jones-Smith, PhD; William H. Dow, PhD; Kristal Chichlowska, PhD

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):929-936. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.604

Jones-Smith and coauthors longitudinally assessed whether openings or expansions of American Indian鈥搊wned casinos were associated with childhood overweight/obesity risk in 117 school districts encompassing tribal lands in California. Halfon comments in an editorial.

Editorial
Socioeconomic Influences on Child Health: Building New Ladders of Social Opportunity
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH

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Associations of Housing Mobility Interventions for Children in High-Poverty Neighborhoods With Subsequent Mental Disorders During Adolescence

Ronald C. Kessler, PhD; Greg J. Duncan, PhD; Lisa A. Gennetian, PhD; et al.

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In a randomized clinical trial involving 3689 children residing in high-poverty neighborhoods, Kessler and coauthors assessed the effect of moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood on development of subsequent mental disorders among adolescents, and found that boys had an increased rate of select mental disorders while girls did not.

Podcast: Associations of Housing Mobility Interventions for Children in High-Poverty Neighborhoods With Subsequent Mental Disorders During Adolescence

Editorial
Socioeconomic Influences on Child Health: Building New Ladders of Social Opportunity
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH

JAMA

Research Letter

Federal Human Research Oversight of Clinical Trials in the United States

Deborah A. Zarin, MD; Tony Tse, PhD; Jerry Menikoff, MD, JD

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):960-961. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.284306

Viewpoint

Legal and Ethical Responsibilities Following Brain Death: The McMath and Mu帽oz Cases

Lawrence O. Gostin, JD

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):903-904. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.660

Podcast: JAMA: 2014-03-04, Vol. 311, No. 9, Author Reading

Evaluating the Risks of Electric Uterine Morcellation

Kimberly A. Kho, MD, MPH; Ceana H. Nezhat, MD

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):905-906. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.1093

What Is the Public鈥檚 Right to Access Medical Discoveries Based on Federally Funded Research?

Carolyn L. Treasure, BA; Jerry Avorn, MD; Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):907-908. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.404

Reward-Based Incentives for Smoking Cessation: How a Carrot Became a Stick

Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD; Robert Galvin, MD, MBA

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):909-910. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.418

A Piece of My Mind

What Would You Do, Doctor?

Rebekah Mannix, MD, MPH

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):911-912. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.910

Editorial

Warfarin Treatment in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: Sins of Omission or Commission?

Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, MD, MPH, ScD; Mintu P. Turakhia, MD, MAS

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):913-915. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.1781

Socioeconomic Influences on Child Health: Building New Ladders of Social Opportunity

Neal Halfon, MD, MPH

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):915-917. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.608

Medical Education Theme Issue 2014: Call for Papers

Robert M. Golub, MD

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Grand Rounds

Tremor

W. Jeffrey Elias, MD; Binit B. Shah, MD

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):948-954. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.1397

Drs Elias and Shaw define different types of tremor and discuss 2 patient presentations with tremor in a Grand Rounds review.

Video: Neurological Assessment of Case Patients 1 and 2

JAMA Clinical Evidence Synopsis

Acupuncture for Chronic Pain

Andrew J. Vickers, DPhil; Klaus Linde, MD

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):955-956. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.285478

JAMA Clinical Challenge

An Immunocompromised Patient With Recent-Onset Skin Lesions

Nilanthi D. Gunawardane, MD; Anne Laumann, MBChB, MRCP(UK)

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):957-958. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.284992

Medical News & Perspectives

Critics of Fibroid Removal Procedure Question Risks It May Pose for Women With Undetected Uterine Cancer

Tracy Hampton, PhD

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2014 Adult Immunization Schedule: Recombinant Flu Vaccine Expands Options for People With Egg Allergies

Jill Jin, MD, MPH

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News From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

news@JAMA

From JAMA鈥檚 Daily News Site

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Lab Reports

New Method Allows for Precise Gene Targeting in Monkeys

Tracy Hampton, PhD

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Anticancer Drugs Reduce Type 1 Diabetes Incidence in Mice

Tracy Hampton, PhD

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Bar Code Technology Enables Cancer Cell Protein Analysis

Tracy Hampton, PhD

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Dysfunctional HDL May Increase Heart Disease Risk

Tracy Hampton, PhD

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):894. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.1872

The Art of JAMA

Slaughterhouse Ruins at Aledo: Gertrude Abercrombie

Thomas B. Cole, MD, MPH

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):884-885. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.279362

Poetry and Medicine

High Tide

Jeffrey Johnson

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):968. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.283252

JAMA Revisited

Treatment of Pyoderma With Polymyxin B-Bacitracin Ointment

Bernard J. Pass, M.D.; Herbert Rattner, M.D.

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JAMA Patient Page

FDA Approval of New Drugs

Jill Jin, MD, MPH

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Comment & Response

Deaths and Cardiovascular Events in Men Receiving Testosterone

Abraham Morgentaler, MD; Abdulmaged Traish, PhD; Ravi Kacker, MD

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):961-962. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.392

Deaths and Cardiovascular Events in Men Receiving Testosterone

T. Hugh Jones, BSc, MD, FRCP; Kevin S. Channer, MD, FRCP

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Deaths and Cardiovascular Events in Men Receiving Testosterone

Daniel M. Riche, PharmD; William L. Baker, PharmD; Christian A. Koch, MD, PhD

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Deaths and Cardiovascular Events in Men Receiving Testosterone

James Katz, MD, MPH; Robert Nadelberg, MD

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):963. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.395

Deaths and Cardiovascular Events in Men Receiving Testosterone

Sandeep Dhindsa, MBBS; Manav Batra, MBBS; Paresh Dandona, MBBS

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JAMA. 2014;311(9):964. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.389

Deaths and Cardiovascular Events in Men Receiving Testosterone鈥擱eply

P. Michael Ho, MD, PhD; Anna E. Barón, PhD; Margaret E. Wierman, MD

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Underrepresentation of Older Adults in Cancer Trials

Jing Luo, MD; Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH

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Underrepresentation of Older Adults in Cancer Trials鈥擱eply

Harvey Jay Cohen, MD; Mary Naylor, PhD, RN; Arti Hurria, MD

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Correction

Error in Patient Page

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Incorrect Number of Excluded Patients Reported in the Text and Figure

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