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Most viewed this week from JAMA: In critically ill patients, neither dexmedetomidine nor clonidine was superior to propofol in reducing time to successful extubation. https://ja.ma/4kcppU6

Since 2010, the incidence of cardiac arrest during marathons and half-marathons has stayed relatively stable, but the risk of dying from these events has decreased by about 50% compared to 2000-2009. https://ja.ma/4mskeki

In a new #OpEd, Daniel Pham, MD, discusses the debate surrounding Casey Means’ nomination for U.S. Surgeon General, weighing concerns about her medical background against the broader responsibilities of the role in public health leadership. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

What do you think: Does It Matter if the U.S. Surgeon General Never Practiced Medicine? @danielpham.bsky.social shared his thoughts with @medpagetoday.bsky.social. Let us know what you think by commenting below. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... #medsky #surgeongeneral #caseymeans

Viewpoint: Expanding the pipeline of social sciences and humanities physician-scientists is both feasible and critical to tackling medicine’s evolving demands. https://ja.ma/4ks4VXQ

“Although the risk of severe neutropenia with clozapine still exists, FDA has determined that the REMS program for clozapine is no longer necessary to ensure the benefits of the medicine outweigh that risk.” ow.ly/kFZw50V6xsP

In a new Editorial, JAMA editors, JAMA Network Editors in Chief, and JAMA editorial leadership address the recent executive orders that have impacted the scientific process and reaffirm their commitment to scientific and editorial integrity. ja.ma/4b5LsIt

🧵 From 2017 to 2022, California emergency clinicians increasingly adopted buprenorphine prescribing for opioid use disorder. ja.ma/4b8CXfN #MedSky

My opinion piece in @statnews.com. I often encounter people with serious mental illness on complex psychotropic regimen simply because they or their prescriber experience regulatory barriers to considering a trial of clozapine. www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/c... #FDA #MentalHealth

The FDA must remove an unnecessary barrier to the use of clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/c... via @statnews.com

The @fda.gov must remove an unnecessary barrier to the use of clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/c... via @statnews.com @danielpham.bsky.social

From JAMA Psychiatry: Low-dose semaglutide reduced alcohol craving and consumption in adults with alcohol use disorder. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The Missing Post Office, on the remote Japanese island of Awashima, is a repository for 60,000-plus pieces of mail from all over Japan to those with no forwarding address. Lost friends and pets; past and future selves; and, most frequently, the dead. Gift link to our story: wapo.st/4gtdy1n

National Institutes of Health slashes overhead costs to match percentage paid by private foundations, but the two don't account for expenses in the same way.

I'm on service in the MICU this week, a place that is defined by a huge outlay of resources for what is often a small chance of saving one life. Just thinking about what's happened to USAID – arguably one of the best ROI you could ever hope to achieve in human health and flourishing? – is very hard.

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

To Test Or Not To Test: Medical Work-Up of Psychosis Current approaches relying on clinical suspicion leave many patients without correct diagnosis awaisaftab.substack.com/p/to-test-or...

biggest change so far since I became soilpilled: now I look at fall completely differently. just piles and piles of biomass out there for free, dropping everywhere. look at God.

Belatedly read this today. While many no longer need convincing that the US prison system is evil, this is among the more damning accounts. As prison populations age we are increasingly looking the other way as folks who don’t even remember their crimes are punished. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/o...