Tag: Journal of the American Medical Association

  • In First for Sitting President, Obama Publishes a Scholarly Article Fortune 2016-07-11 Jeff John Roberts Call him scholar-in-chief An author named “Barack Obama, JD” published an article on Monday in a scholarly journal. No prizes for guessing the topic: It’s an assessment of the Affordable Care Act as well as policy recommendations for the next…

  • United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps The Journal of the American Medical Association Published online 2016-07-11 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.9797 Barack Obama, JD President of the United States, Washington, DC Importance The Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in the United States since the creation of Medicare…

  • Genomics and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Statistical Discrimination The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 308, Number 19 (2012-11-21) pages 1979-1980 DOI: 10.1001/2012.jama.10820 Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, Professor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Ten years ago, 2 events occurred that have transformed biomedical research. In 2001, the draft sequence…

  • A Color Problem in England The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 95, Number 3 (1930-07-19) Foreign Letters: London Letter pages 210-211 DOI: 10.1001/jama.1930.02720030040020 From Our Regular Correspondent (1930-06-21) There is no color line in England such as exists in America. This does not mean that the English do not appreciate differences of race.…

  • Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Why and How? The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 292, Number 13 (2004) pages 1612-1614 DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.13.1612 Margaret A. Winker, MD, Deputy Editor and Online Editor Journal of the American Medical Association Race and enthnicity are constantly evolving concepts, deceptively easy to measure and used ubiquitously in the biomedical literature,…

  • The Morbid Proclivities and Retrogressive Tendencies in the Offspring of Mulattoes The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 20, Number 1 (1893-01-07) pages 1-2 DOI: 10.1001/jama.1893.02420280009001 W. A. Dixon, M.D. Read in the Section of Diseases of Children, at the Forty-third Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Detroit, Mich., June 7,…