March 2024 Medical News Summary

JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Associate Managing Editor Kate Schweitzer discuss "Experts Debate How Obesity Should Be Defined and Diagnosed." Related Content: Experts Debate How Obesity Should Be Defined and Diagnosed 

JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Lead Senior Staff Writer Rita Rubin discuss "These Blood Tests May Detect Dozens of Cancers, but Will They Save Lives?" Related Content: These Blood Tests May Detect Dozens of Cancers, but Will They Save Lives? 

How is Alzheimer's diagnosed? Is there a new blood test for colon cancer? Is West Nile virus deadly? Is West Nile virus curable? How bad is COVID right now? Our guest is American Medical Association Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH. AM ...  Afficher plus

Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer in the UK, with over 40,000 new cases each year. The positive predictive value of Faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) far exceeds that of symptoms and makes FIT an important tool for triaging patients with symptoms sugges ...  Afficher plus

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed each year worldwide. This highly anticipated series will take an in-depth look at this disease. In this first episode, we discuss the basics, including staging, tumor markers, ...

In this Spotlight series episode on Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Blood Editor, Dr. Selina Luger interviews Drs. Laura Michaelis and Alexander Perl on their paper in the series titled “The fit older adult with acute myeloid leukemia: clinical challenges to providing evidence-based fron ...  Afficher plus