JAMA Medical News

Discussions of timely topics in clinical medicine, biomedical research, public health, health policy, and more, featured in the Medical News section of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Highlights From Kidney Week 2025 11/21/2025

Highlights From Kidney Week 2025 Updates on SGLT2 inhibitors, fish oil and hemodialysis, GLP-1 drugs, and more: Katherine R. Tuttle, MD, education committee co-chair of Kidney Week 2025 and a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, shares clinical research... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/39113650

US Governors Form a Public Health Alliance 11/21/2025

US Governors Form a Public Health Alliance In this week’s roundup, JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Associate Managing Editor Kate Schweitzer discuss “US Governors Are Forming a Public Health Alliance Amid Federal Funding Cuts and Shifting Guidance” and more. /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/39113960

The Common Liver Disease You’ve Never Heard Of 11/14/2025

The Common Liver Disease You’ve Never Heard Of In this weekly roundup, JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Lead Senior Staff Writer Rita Rubin discuss “MASLD—The Chronic Liver Disease That Affects Tens of Millions of US Adults but Flies Under the Radar” and more. /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/39034795

Are Peanut Allergies Finally on the Decline? 11/07/2025

Are Peanut Allergies Finally on the Decline? In this weekly roundup, JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Staff Writer Samantha Anderer discuss “Peanut Allergies Appear to Be on the Decline Following Early Introduction Guidelines” and more. /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/38943995

Dementia’s Cultural Narratives 10/31/2025

Dementia’s Cultural Narratives Dementia is still a highly stigmatized condition. Nancy Berlinger, PhD, a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center for Bioethics, discusses a new report about the cultural narratives of dementia and how they can affect the quality of... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/38849475

October 2025 Medical News Summary 10/31/2025

October 2025 Medical News Summary State Laws Aim to Bring Internationally Trained Physicians to Underserved Areas, but Barriers Abound; Oral Microbiome Composition Linked to Pancreatic Cancer Risk /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/38851765

Understanding Cardiac Long COVID 10/24/2025

Understanding Cardiac Long COVID A new European Society of Cardiology clinical consensus statement deals with cardiovascular disease prevention and management in COVID-19, including cardiac long COVID. The report’s lead author, Vassilios Vassiliou, MBBS, PhD, MA,... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/38760395

Acetaminophen Use in Pregnancy and Risk of Autism 09/29/2025

Acetaminophen Use in Pregnancy and Risk of Autism Epidemiologist Brian Lee, PhD, discusses his study on acetaminophen use during pregnancy and children’s risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders in this interview with JAMA Deputy Editor Linda Brubaker, MD. /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/38393380

September 2025 Medical News Summary 09/26/2025

September 2025 Medical News Summary Ultraprocessed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health—New Report on a “Growing Public Health Challenge”; New Analysis of Women’s Health Initiative Data Aims to “Clear the Air” Over Menopausal Hormone Therapy /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/38366245

Cardiovascular Highlights From ESC 2025 09/19/2025

Cardiovascular Highlights From ESC 2025 Updates on GLP-1 drugs in heart failure, β-blockers after myocardial infarction, the shingles vaccine, and more: Felix Mahfoud, MD, chair of the Department of Cardiology at University Hospital Basel, shares clinical research highlights... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/38278120

How Did Cystic Fibrosis Go From Fatal to Treatable? 09/11/2025

How Did Cystic Fibrosis Go From Fatal to Treatable? Pulmonologist Michael J. Welsh, MD, is the co-recipient of the 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his research on cystic fibrosis. In this interview, he discusses his early clinical encounters with the disease, the... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/38146860

August 2025 Medical News Summary 08/29/2025

August 2025 Medical News Summary What Is 7-OH?; Real-World Experience With Antiamyloid Therapies for Alzheimer Disease; FDA Panel on SSRIs and Pregnancy Lacked Nuance, Experts Say /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/38006350

July 2025 Medical News Summary 07/25/2025

July 2025 Medical News Summary The Effects of Newly Changed Guidance on COVID-19 Shots During Pregnancy; Heart Disease Deaths Have Changed; Progress Toward a Norovirus Vaccine /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/37546955

Socially Assistive Robots, Part 2 07/02/2025

Socially Assistive Robots, Part 2 In this follow-up to a 2017 interview with JAMA Medical News, the University of Southern California’s Maja Matarić, PhD, the computer scientist who pioneered the field of socially assistive robotics, discusses how artificial intelligence... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/37244870

Clinical Highlights From ASCO 2025 06/27/2025

Clinical Highlights From ASCO 2025 Kimmie Ng, MD, MPH, a JAMA associate editor and associate chief of the Division of Gastrointestinal Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, shares highlights from the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting, including... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/37177835

June 2025 Medical News Summary 06/27/2025

June 2025 Medical News Summary New NIH-FDA Partnership Targets Nutrition Research Gaps; First Blood Test for Alzheimer Biomarkers Receives FDA Clearance; A Growing Movement to Care for Caregivers /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/37177955

AI-Based Analysis for Parkinsonism 06/16/2025

AI-Based Analysis for Parkinsonism Delaying diagnosis of parkinsonism can mean delaying care. In a study recently published in JAMA Neurology, David Vaillancourt, PhD, and colleagues tested the ability of an AI model to differentiate between Parkinson disease and other neurodegenerative disorders when paired with MRI. He joins JAMA and JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH to discuss. Related Content: /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/37026065

May 2025 Medical News Summary 05/30/2025

May 2025 Medical News Summary Federal Funds for Rural Health Care May Be Cut; Why the IV Fluid Shortage After Hurricane Helene Was Years in the Making; Surge in US Sports Betting Raises Public Health Concerns /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/36771770

When Do Nudges Help? 05/16/2025

When Do Nudges Help? Susan Athey, PhD, of Standford University joins JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, to discuss her research on machine learning to target behavioral nudges for college students and their potential implications for health care. Related Content: /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/36596810

Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2025 Scientific Session 04/25/2025

Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2025 Scientific Session Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM, a professor of medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, discusses late-breaking clinical research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in an interview with JAMA... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/36299920

April 2025 Medical News Summary 04/25/2025

April 2025 Medical News Summary Axe Falls on Federal Health Workforce; Experts Say CDC Cuts Will Cost Lives /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/36300985

Real-World Performance of AI in Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy 04/18/2025

Real-World Performance of AI in Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy Diabetic retinopathy remains a leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide, and AI may facilitate screening, if such models continue to perform well when they are deployed in the real world. Coauthors Arthur Brant, MD, of Stanford University, and Sunny Virmani, MS, of Google join JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, to discuss a new study published in JAMA Network Open. Related Content: /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/36191260

Can Open-Source LLMs Compete With Proprietary Ones for Complex Diagnoses? 04/04/2025

Can Open-Source LLMs Compete With Proprietary Ones for Complex Diagnoses? A recent study published in JAMA Health Forum suggests that institutions may be able to deploy custom open-source large language models (LLMs) that run locally without sacrificing data privacy or flexibility. Coauthors Thomas A. Buckley, BS, and Arjun K. Manrai, PhD, from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School join JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, to discuss. Related Content: /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/35962045

March 2025 Medical News Summary 03/28/2025

March 2025 Medical News Summary The US Is Suing Pharmacies for Aiding in the Opioid Crisis; Texas Measles Outbreak Spurs Call for Stronger Vaccine Advocacy; Study Finds Sleep-Related Infant Deaths Are on the Rise /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/35889950

Rethinking Race in Prenatal Screening for Open Neural Tube Defects 03/28/2025

Rethinking Race in Prenatal Screening for Open Neural Tube Defects Correction: This podcast has been updated to add additional context on the frequency of false positives. Open neural tube defects affect approximately 1 in 1400 births. Daniel Herman, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine joins JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, to discuss a quality improvement study examining the need to continue to incorporate race in tests that screen for these defects. Related Content: /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/36084295

AI’s Role in Advancing Equity for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities 03/21/2025

AI’s Role in Advancing Equity for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities Artificial intelligence (AI) in health care is advancing, despite concerns about how its use may impact health disparities. Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, chief health officer at Special Olympics, joins JAMA Associate Editor Yulin Hswen,... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/35784310

Prescreening for Clinical Trial Eligibility Using Large Language Models 03/14/2025

Prescreening for Clinical Trial Eligibility Using Large Language Models A recent study showed AI-assisted screening using a large language model tool reduced time to determine trial eligibility compared with manual methods. Author Alexander J. Blood, MD, MSc, cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/35660805

Machine Learning for Earlier Diagnosis of Schizophrenia 03/07/2025

Machine Learning for Earlier Diagnosis of Schizophrenia In a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers reported that a machine learning model was able to stratify risk for subsequent diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder among individuals already receiving psychiatric treatment. Coauthor Søren Dinesen Østergaard, PhD, of Aarhus University in Denmark joins JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, to discuss. Related Content: /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/35578125

The 5 Ways Engineers Plan to Curb Antimicrobial Resistance 02/28/2025

The 5 Ways Engineers Plan to Curb Antimicrobial Resistance A recent report from the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance emphasizes the urgent need for engineering-directed research to mitigate the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Anita Shukla, PhD, a professor of engineering at... /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/35473180

February 2025 Medical News Summary 02/28/2025

February 2025 Medical News Summary Changes to CDC’s Website Threaten Patients, Public Health; Landmark Study of Black Women and Cancer Launches /episode/index/show/jamamedicalnews/id/35482690

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