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

March 19, 2009

JAMA (Volume 301, Number 11, March 18, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “Religious Coping and Use of Intensive Life-Prolonging Care Near Death in Patients With Advanced Cancer” by Andrea C. Phelps. Paul K. Maciejewski, Matthew Nilsson, Tracy A. Balboni, Alexi A. Wright, M. Elizabeth Paulk, Elizabeth Trice, Deborah Schrag, John R. Peteet, Susan D. Block, and Holly G. Prigerson, 1140-1147.
• “Effects of Modafinil on Dopamine and Dopamine Transporters in the Male Human Brain: Clinical Implications” by Nora D. Volkow, Joanna S. Fowler, Jean Logan, David Alexoff, Wei Zhu, Frank Telang, Gene-Jack Wang, Millard Jayne, Jacob M. Hooker, Christopher Wong, Barbara Hubbard, Pauline Carter, Donald Warner, Payton King, Colleen Shea, Youwen Xu, Lisa Muench, and Karen Apelskog-Torres, 1148-1154.
• “Self-care of Physicians Caring for Patients at the End of Life: ‘Being Connected . . . A Key to My Survival'” by Michael K. Kearney, Radhule B. Weininger, Mary L. S. Vachon, Richard L. Harrison, and Balfour M. Mount, 1155-1164.
• “Social Policy as Health Policy” by Steven H. Woolf, 1166-1169.
• “Action on Health Disparities in the United States: Commission on Social Determinants of Health” by Michael G. Marmot and Ruth Bell, 1169-1171.
• “Uninsured Patients and Emergency Department Use in the United States” by Shailendra Prasad and Jill Klingner, 1124.
• “Erasing Scary Memories” by Joan Stephenson, 1118.
• “Tumors From Stem Cells” by Joan Stephenson, 1118.

Book and Media Reviews Include:

• “Complementary and Alternative Medicine” by Kathi J. Kemper, 1180.
• “Bioethics at the Movies” by Tony Miksanek, 1180-1181.