Physician’s Briefing Weekly Coronavirus Roundup
Biden Relaunches Cancer Moonshot Initiative
Program aims to reduce cancer death rate by 50 percent during the next 25 years
Physician Mental Health Has Declined During the Pandemic
Findings show an increase in mental health, substance use-related visits among Canadian physicians
Adding ADT to Radiotherapy Ups Mets-Free Survival in Prostate Cancer
In meta-analysis, adjuvant ADT prolongation also linked to improvement in metastasis-free survival, but not neoadjuvant ADT extension
Polygenic Risk Score May Predict Radiographic Progression in RA
Risk for severe progression higher for patients in top quintile for PRS; association stronger in patients who were younger at disease onset
California Universal Health Care System Bill Faces Monday Deadline
There is also a second bill to fund universal health care, which has a different deadline and does not have to pass on Monday
Screening Nonsmokers May Up Lung Cancer Overdiagnosis, Spurious Survival Rates
Promoting low-dose CT screening among mostly nonsmoking women increased detection of early-stage, but not late-stage, lung cancers
MRI of Hand, Foot May Predict RA in Undifferentiated Arthritis
MRI-detected tenosynovitis independently associated with progression to rheumatoid arthritis
Brain Imaging May ID THC-Linked Impairment in Cannabis Users
Measurement of prefrontal cortex oxygenated hemoglobin concentration with functional near-infrared spectroscopy may detect THC impairment
