Introduction to JAMA Climate Change and Health Series
This JAMA Insights introduces the new series on climate change intended to inform readers about the associations between climate change and health.
Medical Knowledge
Segmental Skin Induration in a Boy
An 11-year-old boy presented with progressive unilateral skin hardening on his right thigh and buttock for 7 years. What is your diagnosis?
Diffusely Enhancing Lesions on MRI in DPPX Antibody-Associated Encephalitis
This case report describes a diagnosis of dipeptidyl-peptidase like protein-6 antibody-associated encephalitis in a woman aged 51 years who presented with progressive gait instability, memory impairment, and weight loss.
Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging During Convective Gene Therapy Perfusion of the Brain
This article discusses use of intraoperative MRI in convective gene therapy perfusion.
NAS and NOWS, Part 2
The diagnosis of a substance use or opioid use disorder during pregnancy is linked to complications for the mother, fetus, and newborn. Chronically drug exposed fetuses are at high risk for neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) or neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome…
NAS and NOWS, Part 1
The diagnosis of a substance use or opioid use disorder during pregnancy is linked to complications for the mother, fetus, and newborn. Chronically drug exposed fetuses are at high risk for neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) or neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome…
Diagnostic Safety, Part 1: The Basics
This overview of the discipline of diagnostic safety gives information about the number of diagnostic errors that occur each year in the US. It discusses barriers that make diagnostic errors more likely and presents strategies for making diagnosis safer.
A Female Patient With Recurrent Headache and Syncope
This case report discusses a diagnosis of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas in a female patient in her 30s who presented with a 5-year history of hypoxia, syncope, and headaches.
Weakness and Syncope After Prolonged Diarrhea
This case report presents the electrocardiogram findings of a patient in their 70s history of hypertension, chronic kidney failure, and prolonged diarrhea who presented for repeated episodes of weakness and syncope.
Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Diseases
This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the 2022 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for diagnosis and management of aortic disease.
