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February 21, 2017, Vol 317, No. 7, Pages 663-780

This Week in JAMA

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):663-665. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.12998
Original Investigation

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

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):708-716. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.21043

This clinical trial compares the effects of testosterone gel vs placebo for 12 months on noncalcified 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

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):717-727. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.21044

This randomized trial compares the effects of testosterone gel vs placebo for 12 months on verbal memory and other cognitive functions in older men with low testosterone and age-associated memory impairment.

Effect of Collaborative Care vs Usual Care on Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults With Subthreshold Depression: The CASPER Randomized Clinical Trial

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):728-737. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0130

This randomized clinical trial investigates whether a collaborative care intervention, compared with usual care, reduces depressive symptoms and prevents more severe depression in older people with subclinical depression.

Effect of Fibrinogen Concentrate on Intraoperative Blood Loss Among Patients With Intraoperative Bleeding During High-Risk Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):738-747. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.21037

This randomized trial compares the effects of fibrinogen concentrate vs placebo on intraoperative blood loss in patients at high-risk of bleeding undergoing elective cardiac surgery.

Research Letter

Website Characteristics and Physician Reviews on Commercial Physician-Rating Websites

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):766-768. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.18553

This study characterizes the type and number of physician reviews on commercial physician-rating websites.

Viewpoint

Improving Lower Extremity Functioning in Peripheral Artery Disease: Exercise, Endovascular Revascularization, or Both?

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):689-690. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20673

This Viewpoint reviews treatment options to improve walking ability and quality of life for patients with lower extremity peripheral artery disease.

Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: The Dichotomy Between Acute Outbreaks and Chronic Endemicity

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):691-692. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.21079

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of continuing infectious diseases research, even after outbreaks subside and disease progression becomes endemic.

Benefit-Risk Assessments at the US Food and Drug Administration: Finding the Balance

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):693-694. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0410

This Viewpoint from former US FDA Commissioner Robert Califf discusses existing agency decision support tools for assessing the benefits and risks of medical products under review and the advantages of harmonizing the currently separate frameworks used for evaluating devices and for drugs and biologics.

Interrupting the Mental Illness–Incarceration-Recidivism Cycle

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):695-696. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20992

This Viewpoint offers ways people with serious mental illness can be diverted from prison by preventing court involvment, developing mental health courts, mandating police training, providing housing, and developing outpatient treatment progams.

A Piece of My Mind

Rosemary’s Gifts

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):697-698. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.14695
Editorial

Testosterone and Male Aging: Faltering Hope for Rejuvenation

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):699-701. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0129

When and How to Treat Subthreshold Depression

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):702-704. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0233

Using Design Thinking to Differentiate Useful From Misleading Evidence in Observational Research

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):705-707. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.19970
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

Adjusted Analyses in Studies Addressing Therapy and Harm: Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):748-759. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20029

This Users’ Guide to the Medical Literature discusses strategies for adjusting analyses as a way of addressing prognostic imbalance in studies of therapy and harm.

From the ÌÇÐÄvlog

Cellulitis: Commonly Misdiagnosed or Just Misunderstood?

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):760-761. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.15921

This commentary discusses a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Dermatology reporting frequent misdiagnosis of lower extremity cellulitis and characterizing the patient and health service complications of the misdiagnosed infection.

JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis

Management of Chronic Insomnia Disorder in Adults

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):762-763. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.19004

This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the American College of Physicians’ 2016 guideline on management of chronic insomnia in adults.

Medical News & Perspectives

MacArthur Winner Adapts High-Tech Medicine to Third World

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):683-685. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20335

This Medical News article is an interview with Rebecca Richards-Kortum, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship for her work in global health.

News From the Food and Drug Administration

Novel Drugs Passed Muster in 2016

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):688. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0312

Inspections Turn up Insects, Mold in Drug Compounding Facilities

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):688. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0453

Scientists Receive Award for Meningitis Vaccine Research

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):688. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0839
The JAMA Forum

How Will President Trump’s Policies Affect Domestic and Global Health and Development?

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):685-686. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0235
Global Health

Atypical Leishmaniasis Linked to Genetic Variants of Leishmania

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):687. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0055

Ebola Vaccine Found Highly Protective

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):687. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0633

Uneven Progress in Preventing and Treating HIV Infections Worldwide

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):687. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0635
The Arts and Medicine

Moving the Needle on Recovery From Breast Cancer: The Healing Role of Postmastectomy Tattoos

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):672-674. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0474

This Arts and Medicine essays reports the experience of Chicago-based tattoo artist David Allen, whose work with women to design imagery to conceal their mastectomy scars helps them reclaim a sense of control over their bodies.

Poetry and Medicine

Tale of Two Livers

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):773. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.16403
JAMA Revisited

Communication and the Journals

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):774. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20843
JAMA Patient Page

Restless Legs Syndrome

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):780. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.21375
Comment & Response

Substance Use Terminology

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):768-769. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20469

Substance Use Terminology

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):769. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20472

Substance Use Terminology

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):769-770. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20475

Substance Use Terminology—Reply

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):770. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20485

Evidence for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to Support Breastfeeding

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):770-771. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20832

Evidence for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to Support Breastfeeding—Reply

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):771-772. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20835

Evidence for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to Support Breastfeeding—Reply

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):771. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20837
JAMA Masthead

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JAMA. 2017;317(7):667-668. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.12999
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