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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concludes that primary care-feasible behavioral interventions have a moderate net benefit for preventing tobacco use in children. These findings form the basis of a final recommendation statement

USPSTF: Behavioral Interventions Likely Prevent Tobacco Use

Primary care-feasible behavioral interventions have moderate net benefit for school-aged children
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis have low awareness about associated cardiovascular risk

Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Remain Unaware of CV Risk

Further, rheumatoid arthritis patients report low rates of counseling by physicians
Prevention

Thromboembolic Complications in COVID-19 Discussed

All hospitalized COVID-19 patients should be started on prophylactic low-molecular-weight heparin
Limited tools are available for identifying

Reviews Assess Tools to Identify, Diagnose, Treat Alzheimer Dementia

Many cognitive tests can differentiate clinical Alzheimer-type dementia from normal cognition
Individuals at high risk for major depression reared in adoptive homes have a significantly reduced risk for major depression compared with those raised in their home environment

Major Depression Reduced for Those Reared in Adoptive Homes

Protective rearing effect found for adopted compared with home-reared full and half siblings
Multicancer blood testing combined with positron emission tomography-computed tomography imaging can detect cancers

Multicancer Blood Test, PET-CT Combo Feasible for Cancer Screen

One percent of participants underwent PET-CT imaging due to false-positive blood tests
For multiple sclerosis patients with clinically isolated syndrome

Low Vitamin D, Smoking Predict Worse Cognitive Function in MS

Higher vitamin D predicted better cognitive performance, while smoking predicted worse performance
Health care organizations are facing hard financial decisions amid the COVID-19 pandemic

David Shulkin, M.D., on COVID-19 Financial Consequences for Health Care System

Shulkin, ninth secretary for Veterans Affairs, estimates health care provider revenue down about $500 billion
Treatment disparities may explain worse outcomes for pediatric black and Hispanic brain cancer patients

Pediatric Brain Cancer Outcomes Worse for Black, Hispanic Patients

Disparities for disease severity not seen at diagnosis, meaning postdiagnosis factors may affect outcome
Quantitative smell testing shows that decreased smell function is a major marker for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection

Almost All COVID-19 Patients Have Diminished Sense of Smell

98 percent of COVID-19 inpatients exhibited some smell dysfunction on quantitative smell test