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• FDA Hopes Tool Will Help Identify Substandard, Counterfeit Malaria Drugs in the Field

  By Bridget M. Kuehn on April 25, 2013

  

  More than half of all drugs used to treat malaria in low- and middle-income countries are substandard or counterfeit, which contributes to preventable deaths and the emergence of drug resistance. But the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hopes that… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: Are Health Insurers’ Administrative Costs Too High or Too Low?

  By Austin Frakt, PhD on April 24, 2013

  

  There are few minutiae of health care economics that policy wonks love to fight about more than insurers’ administrative costs. These are costs for things like management and marketing that are not directly related to care delivery. Are they too… Read More ›

• Author Insights: Firearm Injuries Pose Greater Risks to Youth Than Other Types of Injuries

  By Bridget M. Kuehn on April 23, 2013

  

  Children and adolescents who are injured by firearms are more likely than youth who have injuries resulting from other causes to require intensive care and to die, according to an analysis published in JAMA today. As state and federal legislators… Read More ›

• Primary Care–Based Screening May Identify Some Adults at Increased Risk for Suicide

  By Mike Mitka on April 22, 2013

  

  Screening tools in the primary care setting may help identify some adults at increased risk for suicide, but the tools have limited ability to detect suicide risk in adolescents, say the authors of an evidence review prepared for the US… Read More ›

• Intense, Single-Sport Training Increases Young Athletes’ Risk of Overuse Injuries

  By Rebecca Voelker on April 19, 2013

  

  Young athletes who train strenuously in a single sport have a new rule of thumb for their practice schedules: don’t spend more hours than your age in training during a given week. Sports medicine researchers at the Loyola University Medical… Read More ›

• Little Progress Seen in Developing New Antibiotics to Combat Drug-Resistant Bacteria

  By Mike Mitka on April 18, 2013

  

  The development of new antibiotics remains alarmingly neglected, report authors of an Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) public policy article. The article, appearing today in Clinical Infectious Diseases, is a progress report on the IDSA’s 10 × ’20 Initiative,… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: Social Status and Health: A Coming Issue for Physicians

  By David Cutler, PhD on April 17, 2013

  

  “The rich are different from you and me. They have more money,” a cynic once noted. The modern-day version would add a deeply troubling observation: and they live longer too. The gap in life expectancy between the better off and… Read More ›

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