Navigating through health care data disrupted by COVID-19 pandemic

What The Study Did: The association between the COVID-19 pandemic and health care-related data collection is examined in this Viewpoint article. Authors: Makoto Mori, M.D., of the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, is the  corresponding author. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5542) Editor’s…

Outcomes of babies born to mothers with SARS-CoV-2 infection

What The Study Did: The risk of mother-to-newborn transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection was examined in this study. Authors: Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, M.D., M.Sc., and Melissa S. Stockwell, M.D., M.P.H., of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, are the corresponding authors. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.4298)…

Single gene disorders not so simple after all

Traditionally, geneticists divide disorders into “simple,” where a single gene mutation causes disease, or complex, where mutations in many genes contribute modest amounts. A new study suggests that the truth is somewhere in between. For many years, scientists studying patient genomes have gained glimpses of genetic “burden” or additional genetic variation that contributes to the…