New Insights on HFpEF in Patients With Severe Obesity
05/06/2026 | 4 min
JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Associate Managing Editor Kate Schweitzer discuss "HFpEF May Be a Different Disease in Patients With Severe Obesity."
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Ebola Outbreak Update
29/05/2026 | 6 min
JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Associate Managing Editor Kate Schweitzer discuss "A Rare Ebola Virus Is Spreading in the DRC—Here's What to Know."
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Is There a Doctor on the Ship?
29/05/2026 | 17 min
Joining from quarantine, Stephen Kornfeld, MD, discusses his experience stepping in as the ship's physician when hantavirus transformed his vacation cruise into a global public health concern.
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Bangladesh's New Measles Crisis
22/05/2026 | 4 min
JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Staff Writer Samantha Anderer discuss "More Than 19 000 Measles Cases in a Month—What the Current Outbreak in Bangladesh Signals to the World."
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New Obesity Definition Stirs Debate
15/05/2026 | 6 min
JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi and Associate Managing Editor Kate Schweitzer discuss "Experts Debate How Obesity Should Be Defined and Diagnosed."
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