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...study published in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indicates that first-year college students living in dormitories are at a much higher risk than the general college-aged population for contracting the potentially fatal disease bacterial meningitis...
While the JAMA article said that more study was needed to understand why college students as a whole were less likely to be infected than their peers not in school, it did note that the drop in infections after the first year made sense...
Sources--Good News: Journal of the AMA (7/25/01), New England Journal of Medicine (7/26/01); Bad News: JAMA (7/25/01) Circulation (7/24/01...
Sources--Good News: Int. Headache Congress (6/30/01), Journal of the AMA (6/27/01). Bad News: JAMA (6/27/01), American Diabetes Assn. Scientific Sessions (6/25/01...
...yoga teacher, published a brief paper on carpal tunnel syndrome in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The eight-week study determined that "a yoga-based regimen was more effective than wrist splinting or no treatment in relieving some symptoms and signs of carpal tunnel syndrome." Letters to JAMA challenged the study's methodology. The authors replied that it was a preliminary investigation to determine if further research was merited. They said...