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Study Compares Strategies for Adjusting Asthma Therapy in Adults

The JAMA Report

Inhaled corticosteroids are the most widely used drugs for controlling asthma. Currently, U.S. guidelines recommend that adults with mild to moderate asthma should take this medication daily whether they have symptoms or not. A new study compared three strategies for adjusting the dose of inhaled steroids for adults with asthma. Catherine Dolf explains in this week’s JAMA Report.

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Wealth-Associated Disparities in Death and Disability in the United States and England

Family Medicine

Although life expectancy has increased worldwide, differences in death rates among socioeconomic groups continue to grow in the United States and Europe. But are there differences in the relationship between...

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Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Long-Term All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality

The JAMA Report

Menopausal hormone therapy involves a complex balance of risk and benefit for women. A new study based on the Women’s Health Initiative hormone therapy trials examined total risk of death...

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Neighborhood Demographics and Cardiac Arrest Treatments and Outcomes

Cardiology

In a cardiac arrest, the heart suddenly stops beating. About 350,000 patients have a cardiac arrest outside the hospital each year in the United States. Only 8% to 10% survive...

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Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Football Players

Human Interest

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a progressive degenerative brain disease associated with repetitive head trauma. Currently, CTE can only be confirmed post-mortem. In a new study from JAMA, researchers...