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Resurgence of malaria in Ethiopia

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About the Study: This study examines whether emerging drug and diagnostic resistance variants are contributing to Ethiopia’s malaria resurgence.

Journal: JAMA

Spectacle lenses with highly aspherical lenslets for myopia control

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About the Study: In this randomized clinical trial of US children, spectacle lenses with HAL provided a reduction in myopia progression and axial elongation over 24 months. While longer-term data are needed to evaluate sustained treatment efficacy, these findings support HAL as a safe and effective myopia control intervention and underlie US Food and Drug Administration authorization of the study device.

Journal: JAMA Ophthalmology

Thyroid lobectomy vs. total thyroidectomy in indeterminate molecular risk thyroid cancer: A randomized clinical trial

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About the Study: This randomized clinical trial sought to determine the proportion of eligible patients who would consent to randomization and complete either thyroid lobectomy or total thyroidectomy as assigned, with the goal of informing target enrollment of a future multicenter trial.

Journal: JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery

Symptom worsening in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About the Study: This meta-analysis evaluates individual participant data from randomized clinical trials to investigate whether mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is associated with worsening symptoms of depression.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Federal and industry sponsorship in US cancer clinical trials

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About the Study: In a comparative study of 11,681 US cancer clinical trial, industry-sponsored trials were more likely to focus on single-agent drug therapies, while federally sponsored trials were more likely to evaluate nontreatment interventions, multimodality treatment strategies, deescalation approaches, and therapies for rare cancers and children.

Journal: JAMA Oncology

Tobacco companies flooded federal comment process that stalled menthol cigarette ban

Rutgers University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rutgers researchers found that over 90% of nearly 250,000 comments on proposed rules were form letters, and nearly half the letters contained industry content.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Experimental synthetic mRNA platform may lead to faster, more effective therapeutics for infectious disease, cancer

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study, scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine report that an experimental mRNA-based platform has the potential to help deliver next-generation mRNA therapeutics, including vaccines fighting against infectious disease, cancer and autoimmune conditions, faster and more efficiently than the industry standard.

Journal: Nature

Boosting cell cleanup process may protect against glaucoma

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine are exploring ways to prevent or slow degeneration associated with glaucoma, and found a potential therapeutic solution by leveraging autophagy, the body's natural cell 'cleaning' system to protect retinal cells.

Journal: Molecular Neurodegeneration

New guide could help scientists see deeper into the human body using light and sound

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Analysing a wide range of ultrasound detectors creates a performance map showing which equipment can hear the faintest biological signals.

Journal: Nature Reviews Methods Primers