New Issue of Journal of the American Medical Association is Now Available

January 6, 2009

JAMA (Volume 300, Number 22, December 10, 2008) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “An Unwelcome Side Effect of Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing: Raiding the Medical Commons” by Amy L. McGuire and Wylie Burke, 2669-2671.
• “Prescription Opioids, Overdose Deaths, and Physician Responsibility” by A. Thomas McLellan and Barbara Turner, 2672-2673.
• “Reporting Dementia on the Death Certificates of Nursing Home Residents Dying With End-Stage Dementia” by Melissa Wachterman, Dan K. Kiely, and Susan L. Mitchell, 2608-2610.

Book and Media Reviews Include:

• “The Economics of Health Equity” by Karunesh Tuli, 2674-2675.
• “Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry” by Bernd Wollschlaeger, 2675-2676.
• “Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids” by Tony Miksanek, 2679.