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Pitch a story to any editor and the first question is likely to be: What's the peg? Not so at the Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA's longtime editor, Dr. George Lundberg, was fired on Friday for having apparently linked the publication date of an article that surveyed how college students define "having sex" to President Clinton's impeachment trial. The AMA blamed Lundberg for "inappropriately and inexcusably interjecting JAMA into the middle of a debate that has nothing to do with science or medicine." The incident is fascinating, says Time medical columnist Christine Gorman, "because there...
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have found a strong correlation between high waist-to-hip ratios in middle-aged women and risk for heart disease, according to a new study in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA...
...seen the change in every segment of society: blacks, non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics," says Marian Willinger, director of SIDS research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a co-author of the JAMA study. Much of the credit goes to a public-health campaign begun in 1994 under the slogan Back to Sleep. But not everyone has got the message. Those who are still more likely to place their infants on their stomachs include mothers ages 20 to 29, African Americans in the inner city and families who live in Middle Atlantic or Southern states...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal; Pediatrics; JAMA...
...Sources: JAMA; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Sexually Transmitted Infections...