Tag: JAMA Internal Medicine

Healthcare giants prioritize shareholder payouts over patient care

Editor’s Note Shareholder payouts by publicly traded healthcare companies have surged 315% since 2001, raising questions about financial priorities in the sector, according to a February 19 article in Healthcare Finance. A research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine and co-authored by Yale University researchers found that major healthcare corporations…

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By: Matt Danford
February 20, 2025
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Rethinking the standard 98.6 degree body temperature

Editor's Note Looking at the temperature measurements of more than 126,000 patients, researchers have found that the once-accepted standard body temperature of 98.6 degrees may not be an accurate measure, as reported in JAMA Internal Medicine on September 5.   The 98.6 degree average was originally arrived at in 1868 by…

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By: Brita Belli
October 17, 2023
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