Tag: journal of the american medical association

  • Nation & World

    Death is universal, but sometimes murky

    A Q&A with ethicist Robert Truog to mark the 50-year anniversary of a Harvard Medical School panel’s landmark report on brain death.

    8 minutes
    Robert Truog.
  • Nation & World

    Nudging families away from fruit juice

    Harvard-affiliated diabetes specialists are calling for fruit juice to be cut from the federal WIC supplemental nutrition program for low-income families.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Weight and mortality

    In January, when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a meta-analysis of 100 studies that probed the relationship between body mass index and mortality — studies that found slightly overweight people have lower all-cause mortality than normal weight and underweight people — media around the globe trumpeted the news.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Transplant pioneer dies at 93

    Joseph E. Murray, emeritus professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, whose many breakthroughs included the first successful kidney transplant, died Nov. 26, after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke at his Wellesley, Mass., home on Thanksgiving. He was 93.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    When a calorie is not just a calorie

    A new study by Harvard researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) challenges the notion that “a calorie is a calorie.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    PFCs may hinder vaccine response

    Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), widely used in manufactured products such as non-stick cookware, waterproof clothing, and fast-food packaging, were associated with lowered immune response to vaccinations in children in research led by Philippe Grandjean of the Harvard School of Public Health.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sleep, oxygen, and dementia

    Harvard research finds that sleep-disordered breathing is associated with a higher risk of cognitive impairment in older women.

    2 minutes
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    Hard on the ears

    Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital have determined that hearing loss in adolescents has increased over the past 15 years.

    2 minutes