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This Medical News article is our fifth-annual roundup of the top-viewed articles from each of the JAMA Network Journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Medical News article is an interview with physician-geneticist Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, as he ends his historic tenure as director of the National Institutes of Health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Medical News article discusses a new consensus study report on the state of nursing homes from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Medical News feature examines the potential implications for pregnant people and clinicians if the US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Medical News article is an interview with Pamela Morris, MD, conference chair for the American College of Cardiology's 2022 Scientific Sessions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Medical News article is an interview with Chicago public health legend and retired physician Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and a past president of the American Public Health Association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this Medical News article, Anthony Fauci, MD, the country's top infectious diseases expert, discusses the latest on COVID-19 and memories of a friend from another pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the top articles from each of the periodicals published by the American Medical Association (AMA), based on the number of online views each article accumulated. They include articles from "JAMA Surgery," "JAMA Internal Medicine" and "JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association."

This Medical News article is an interview with Leana Wen, MD, the new president of Planned Parenthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Medical News article is an interview with the coauthor of a new policy statement on corporal punishment for children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Medical News article discusses a new study of the chemical bisphenol A. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Medical News article is an interview with Shantanu Nundy, MD, about a new way for physicians to collaborate on cases online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Medical News article discusses data on American Indian and Alaska Native premature mortality and its causes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the treatment and management of sepsis. Topics include the 2013 passage of Rory's Regulations in New York state requiring hospitals to have evidence-based protocols for the early recognition and treatment of sepsis, the positive impact of rapid antibiotic administration and completing a 3-hour bundle of care on the mortality of sepsis patients, and the need for further studies on the association between the timing of completion of fluid bolus and in-hospital mortality.

The article discusses the health impact that junk food advertisements (ads) have on children, within the context of the self-regulations of the U.S. food industry. It references the food ad researcher Jennifer L. Harris's perspective on food marketing to children, including the risk of obesity in children.

The article discusses the focus on the study of breast cancer within the long-term study known as the Nurses' Health Study, particularly concerning the potential risks of breast cancer associated with the use of oral contraceptives, and the significance of the long-term study to women's health research.

The article focuses on the effectiveness of emergency preparedness drills and planning and the need for more hospitals to perform these drills. It comments on the effectiveness of the Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) in response to the June 12, 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida and mentions three months before the incident staged an annual community-wide mass casualty drill. It mentions emergency planning at hospitals after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

The article discusses the result of a study in which Martin A. Makary and Michael Daniel of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine asserted that medical errors is the third most common cause of death in the U.S. A comparison of the data on the medical error death rates used in the study and the data used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is made. It is noted that there is no reliable data on the total number of medical errors across areas of the health care system.

The article discusses the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) issuance of a final rule on August 8, 2016 which extends the agency's regulation authority to all tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), and it mentions the potential implications of the FDA's rule on the cigarette smoking cessation efforts of adult e-cigarette users. According to the article, the FDA rule makes it illegal for e-cigarettes to be sold to people under the age of 18.

The article discusses research which indicates that the number of hospital emergency department (ED) opioid misuse diagnoses involving adolescents and young adults has increased in America since 2008, and it mentions diagnosis codes for opioid dependence or abuse (OD/OA) and information about an opioid use disorder in children public health crisis in the U.S. According to the article, opioid-related inpatient stays and ED visits increased for all age groups between 2005 and 2014.

The article discusses how only one out of 159 medical students in the U.S. correctly performed all of 11 elements of a blood pressure (BP) check challenge which is based on the American Heart Association's BP measurement recommendations. According to the article, one-third of the adults in America have hypertension which is a major risk factor for heart disease. Systolic pressure and diastolic pressure are examined, along with education regarding how to assess a patient's BP.

The article reports on the top prized received by an intubation assist device in the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) challenge, a contest supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the nonprofit VentureWell.

The article presents an interview with Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers who is serving as the chairperson of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Nutrition Research Task Force. The state of nutrition research as of 2017 is addressed, along with the efforts to reduce the rates of obesity, heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Strategic health planning and food intake are examined, along with the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans and physician-patient relations.

An interview with Dr. Barbara E. Murray, director of the University of Texas Health Science Center's division of infectious diseases, is presented. When asked about her initial response to news the colistin-resistant gene, mcr-1, being discovered in a bacterial culture of Escherichia coli taken from a patient in the U.S. she said it was a surprise as she didn't know colistin was used in animals. She talks about barriers she's encountered to curbing resistance to antibiotics.

The article discusses U.S. advocacy for walking in relation to neighborhood walkability. Topics include the role of physicians in the organization Walk with a Doc, the health benefits of walking in relation to diseases like obesity and cardiovascular disease, and the role of collaboration among nonprofit groups and government agencies in promoting walkable neighborhoods as part of U.S. city planning.

The article discusses the use of wearable digital thermometers, in the form of wearable patches, to improve fever detection.

The article presents U.S. health agencies-related news briefs on topics including research which indicates that the incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in American youth under the age of 20 increased between 2002 and 2012. The "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer" states that cancer-related mortality involving men, women, and children decreased between 2010 and 2014. The effort to treat viral hepatitis (VH) and eliminate VH-related deaths in the U.S. is also examined.

News briefs concerning U.S. health agencies as of late December 2016 are presented. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated goals for reducing health care-associated infections (HAIs) in acute care hospitals by 2020. Testing of a vaccine for the Zika Purified Inactivated Virus that was developed by scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) began. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative announced over 100 grants.