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Journal of cataract and refractive surgery

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (JCRS), official monthly peer-reviewed journal of ASCRS and ESCRS; founded 1986, merged with the European Journal of Implant and Refractive Surgery in 1996; published by Wolters Kluwer since 2020.

Journal of clinical pharmacology

The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (JCP) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering human pharmacology, published by Wiley as the official journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology.

Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)

Journal of Family Psychology (JFP), ISSN 0893-3200, is the American Psychological Association's peer-reviewed family research journal, founded 1987, edited by Arin M. Connell, published eight times yearly, impact factor 2.4.

Journal of Hematology & Oncology

The Journal of Hematology & Oncology is an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal launched in 2008 in England by BioMed Central, covering all aspects of hematology and oncology.

Journal of Hypertension

Journal of Hypertension (J Hypertens, ISSN 0263-6352) is a monthly peer-reviewed journal founded in 1983, official journal of the International and European Societies of Hypertension, published by Wolters Kluwer/LWW, 2025 impact factor 5.6.

Journal of internal medicine

Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM), a monthly Wiley peer-reviewed medical journal (print ISSN 0954-6820), publishing internal medicine research since 1989 as the continuation of Acta Medica Scandinavica, with roots in 1863 Sweden.

Journal of Neurophysiology

The Journal of Neurophysiology (JNP) is a monthly peer-reviewed journal of the American Physiological Society, based in Bethesda, Maryland, publishing since 1938 under a hybrid open-access model.

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (JNC), bimonthly peer-reviewed journal founded 1994, official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; ISSN 1071-3581/1532-6551; published by Mosby, then Springer, then Elsevier since January 2024; Impact Factor 3, CiteScore 5.9.

Journal of psychiatric research

Journal of Psychiatric Research (J Psychiatr Res), a peer-reviewed psychiatry journal founded 1961 by Pergamon Press, now Elsevier; ISSN 0022-3956/1879-1379, MEDLINE-indexed since 1965, sixteen issues yearly, Q1 Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases

Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases (J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis), bimonthly open-access Elsevier journal founded 1991, official journal of the National Stroke Association and Japan Stroke Society; 2025 impact factor 2.1, ISSN 1052-3057.

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD), the Blue Journal: monthly peer-reviewed dermatology journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, founded July 1979, published by Elsevier, 2025 impact factor 12.3, ranked No. 1 among 99 dermatology journals.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), ISSN 0735-1097, is the ACC's flagship weekly peer-reviewed cardiology journal, launched 1983 under Simon Dack, published by Elsevier, editor Harlan Krumholz.

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS), formerly Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics (1905), is the ACS's monthly peer-reviewed surgery journal, renamed in 1994, published by Wolters Kluwer since 2022, edited by Thomas K. Varghese Jr.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), monthly peer-reviewed clinical aging research journal, official journal of the American Geriatrics Society since 1953; ISSNs 0002-8614 and 1532-5415, published by Wiley, online-only from 2024, impact factor 4.6.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute (ISSN 0027-8874) is a peer-reviewed oncology journal founded in 1940, published by Oxford University Press since 1997 and unaffiliated with the US NCI; 2025 Impact Factor 7.8.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM), UK monthly peer-reviewed general medical journal published since 1809, SAGE-published since 2012, edited by Kamran Abbasi; 2023 JCR Impact Factor 16.3, ranked 10th of 329 general medicine titles.

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

The Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (JTH) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal and the official journal of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

Joycelyn Elders

Joycelyn Elders (Minnie Lee Jones, born 1933), Arkansas pediatric endocrinologist, state health director under Governor Clinton, and 15th U.S. Surgeon General (1993–1994), the first African American in the role, resigned after remarks on masturbation education.

JS006 (anti-TIGIT antibody)

JS006 (TAB006, CHS-006) is Junshi Biosciences' humanized IgG4κ anti-TIGIT monoclonal antibody for cancer immunotherapy; phase I with toripalimab (NCT05061628), licensed to Coherus for the US and Canada in 2022.

JSKN016

JSKN016 is a first-in-class TROP2/HER3 bispecific antibody-drug conjugate from Alphamab Oncology, glycan-conjugated to a topoisomerase I inhibitor (DAR 4), in phase III trials for triple-negative breast cancer and licensed to Pathos for up to $2.09 billion.

JTV-519

JTV-519 (K201) is a 1,4-benzothiazepine RyR2 stabilizer that reduces cardiac SR calcium leak by stabilizing the ryanodine receptor closed state; clinical trials were terminated, and it inspired the Rycal drugs S107 and ARM210.

Juan C. Parodi

Juan Carlos Parodi is an Argentine vascular surgeon who performed the first endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) in 1990 at the Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, a technique since used on more than one million patients.

Juanbi Tang

蠲痹汤 (Juanbi Decoction) is a classic Chinese medicine formula for painful obstruction (bi) syndromes; a Song Yangshi Jiacang Fang version and an 11-herb Yixue Xinwu version treat rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

Juanita W. Fleming

Juanita W. Fleming was an American nurse scientist and academic administrator who became the first Black professor in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing and a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing.

Juberg-Hayward syndrome

Juberg-Hayward syndrome (orocraniodigital syndrome, OMIM 216100) is a rare autosomal recessive ESCO2-related malformation syndrome with cleft lip/palate, thumb anomalies, humeroradial synostosis, and microcephaly; allelic with and milder than Roberts syndrome.

Judith E. Tintinalli

Judith E. Tintinalli is an American emergency physician, founding chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1991 to 2007 and editor-in-chief of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, the field's largest-selling textbook.

Judy Mikovits

Judy Mikovits, former Whittemore Peterson Institute research director, led the retracted 2009 Science paper linking XMRV to chronic fatigue syndrome; later an anti-vaccine activist featured in the false-claim Plandemic video.

Juggling

Juggling: periodic throwing and catching of objects for dexterity, an art over 4,000 years old with ancient Egyptian roots, standardized on balls, clubs, and rings, and widely studied for its effects on brain plasticity, motor learning, and cognition.

Jugular vein

Jugular veins: paired neck veins draining the head and neck. Internal jugular runs in the carotid sheath from the jugular foramen to the brachiocephalic vein; external jugular is superficial. Used for central access and JVP assessment.

Jugular venous pressure

Jugular venous pressure is a bedside estimate of right atrial pressure, measured by the height of the pulsating blood column in the internal jugular vein.