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JAMA and AIDS: Too Much? Not Enough?

Allan R. Tunkel, MD, PhD
JAMA. 1989;262(16):2229-2230. doi:10.1001/jama.1989.03430160047017.
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To the Editor. —  In the Letter to the Editor that appeared in the January 27 issue of JAMA, Dr Kubin1 asks that JAMA restrict the publication of articles about the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). I disagree with many of his statements. First, he maintains that practicing physicians are inundated with information about AIDS and that almost every issue of JAMA has an article about AIDS. It may seem that way to Dr Kubin, but the overall percentage of articles and letters concerning AIDS is not that great. To illustrate this point, I reviewed the table of contents of all issues of JAMA during the calendar year 1988, including all articles about AIDS, AIDS-related complex, or AIDS risk factors. As can be seen in the Table, only 13.1% of all articles published in JAMA over that period concerned AIDS. On further breakdown by journal section, the work of researchers

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