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Sources--Good News: Journal of the American Medical Association, 5/18/99; Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 5/99. Bad News: JAMA, 5/18/99; American Psychiatric Association meeting
...read an abstract of the JAMA study on the Web, visit www.jama.com You can e-mail Christine at gorman@time.com
Sources--Good News: New England Journal of Medicine (2/25); Journal of the American Medical Association (2/24). Bad News: JAMA (2/24); New England Journal of Medicine (2/25...
...Association made another dubious decision? An AMA source says panic over potential wrath from Republicans was the prime reason for the firing last week of GEORGE LUNDBERG, 65, longtime editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, who the AMA said was booted for "inappropriately and inexcusably interjecting JAMA into the middle of a debate that has nothing to do with science or medicine." The sin? Lundberg published a study--begun in 1991, analyzed in '95 and presented to JAMA in late '98--on the attitudes of U.S. college students toward sex. Among the findings: 59% of the student...
...JAMA, Gorman points out, had become known for trying to expand the subjects of medical inquiry it has explored in its pages. "For example," she says, "the journal has taken a look at gun violence as a public health issue." A struggle of sorts had emerged between JAMA and medicine's other prestigious publication, the New England Journal of Medicine, for wider publicity. "There was a feeling that the two journals were leapfrogging each other for press attention," says Gorman. "This, however, may have been the last leap." A leap of great general interest nevertheless -- 'cause in case...