This Medical News article discusses a new state-led coalition, called the Governors Public Health Alliance, to bolster disease detection and response as federal support wanes.

JAMA Author Interviews

This randomized clinical trial investigates whether incisional negative pressure wound therapy following emergency laparotomy in UK- and Australia-based patients prevented surgical site infection at higher rates than the surgeon’s choice of wound dressing.

This Medical News article discusses a new program to enroll underrepresented communities in decentralized clinical trials.

JAMA Senior Editor Derek Angus, MD, MPH, and JAMA Associate Editor Christopher Seymour, MD, MSc, discuss 4 critical care trials published in JAMA and simultaneously presented at the 2024 CCR Down Under meeting in Melbourne, Australia, with JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS.