Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health problem that threatens to reverse many of the medical therapy advances achieved over the past 4 decades. Infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are estimated to cause 35 000 deaths in the US every year and increase medical costs by $4.6 billion. Efforts to stem the emergence and spread...

In the Editorial titled “Struggling to Stem the Tide of Child Maltreatment,” published in the March 19, 2024, issue of JAMA, incorrect text appeared. In the first full paragraph on the second page, the second sentence should have read “Research on some primary care interventions, such as Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) and the Positive Parenting...

About 12% of patients were inappropriately diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to results from more than 17 000 hospitalized patients across 48 hospitals in Michigan. Older people as well as those with dementia or altered mental status were at particularly high risk of being inappropriately diagnosed, which the researchers defined...

A 41-year-old with type 1 diabetes had generalized weakness, muffled voice, and slurred speech. Neck computed tomography showed soft-tissue gas in the nasopharynx and prevertebral fascia; examination of sinus mucosal samples identified numerous broad, nonseptate right-angled hyphae and fruiting bodies. What is the diagnosis and what would you do next?

People with increased polygenic risk scores for higher body mass index (BMI) would need to walk about 2300 more steps each day to have the same risk of obesity as those with lower scores, a recent retrospective study in JAMA Network Open found. Polygenic risk scores reflect the risk of disease determined by many variants in a person’s DNA. The results...