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Most Read Psychiatry Articles on JAMA Network
- The Rise of Venture Capital Investing in Mental Health September 16, 2020This Viewpoint discusses potential concerns and benefits related to increasing use of applications for mental health care created by venture capital–backed companies.
- Association of Poor Family Functioning With Preadolescent Behavior and Subcortical Brain Development September 16, 2020This population-based cohort study uses data from the Generation R Study to investigate the association of poor family functioning with subcortical brain development and preadolescent behavioral problems from pregnancy onward.
- Guidance for Working With a Patient Who Elicits Fear in the Psychiatrist September 16, 2020This essay offers advice to psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians regarding working with a patient who evokes anxiety and fear in the clinician regarding their own physical safety or the safety of others.
- Psychiatry’s Myopia—Reclaiming the Social, Cultural, and Psychological in the Psychiatric Gaze September 9, 2020This Viewpoint proposes that psychiatry should more closely attend to the poverty, justice system involvement, and housing issues of people with serious mental illness, supporting this view with quotes from philosophers.
- Sophisticated Study Designs and Casual Inferences September 9, 2020This Viewpoint presents considerations for assessing evidence for causal inference when using sophisticated study designs with regression analyses of longitudinal observational data.
JAMA Oncology Current Issue
- Precision Therapy in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer September 1, 2020In this issue of JAMA Oncology, Diefenhardt and colleagues report a post hoc analysis of the previously published German CAO/ARO/AIO-04 trial and found that the ability of patients with rectal cancer to complete planned neoadjuvant (but not adjuvant) therapy was associated with improved disease-free survival. The authors concluded “the findings emphasize the need for appropriate […]
- Treatment Adherence and Oncologic Outcomes in Rectal Cancer September 1, 2020This post hoc analysis of a randomized phase 3 trial analyzes the association of treatment adherence with disease-free survival among patients with rectal cancer in the CAO/ARO/AIO-04 trial.
- Time to Focus on Value-Based Metrics for Cancer Care? September 1, 2020This Viewpoint stresses the importance of the multiple dimensions of value-based, patient-centered, quality health care for patients with cancer.
- Cancer Survivorship—Considering Mindsets September 1, 2020To the Editor We commend Baker for his call to action to “do better” in cancer survivorship care. Baker advocates for an increased focus on treatment-specific late effects; this work can promote precision in survivorship care by targeting prevention efforts and increasing medical surveillance for those with elevated biomedical risk.
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The New England Journal of Medicine | Primary Care/Hospitalist/Clinical Practice
- Tribal Truce — How Can We Bridge the Partisan Divide and Conquer Covid? September 23, 2020In late April 2020, Ethan Weiss, a San Francisco cardiologist, joined colleagues in New York to care for critically ill patients with Covid-19. On Weiss’s last day there, a relatively young man was dying of Covid, as his wife lay ill with Covid down the hall. They had been in the hospital nearly a…
- Community Health Workers and Covid-19 — Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Times of Crisis and Beyond September 23, 2020As the United States navigates the uncertainties of Covid-19 and begins a long-overdue process of confronting systemic racism, the communities most affected by poverty, racism, and language barriers and those with the largest populations of immigrants continue to have the worst health outcomes. In…
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- Case 29-2020: A 66-Year-Old Man with Fever and Shortness of Breath after Liver Transplantation September 17, 2020Presentation of Case. Dr. Matthew B. Roberts: A 66-year-old man who had undergone orthotopic liver transplantation because of end-stage liver disease was admitted to this hospital because of fever and cough during the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the disease caused by severe…
The New England Journal of Medicine Rheumatology
- Tolerance in the Age of Immunotherapy September 17, 2020The induction and maintenance of robust immune tolerance has been the holy grail of immunology for decades. In the absence of robust unresponsiveness of the immune system to self antigens (immune tolerance), uncontrolled reactivity can lead to disorders like food allergies and autoimmune diseases.…
- Targeting CD38 with Daratumumab in Refractory Systemic Lupus Erythematosus September 17, 2020Systemic lupus erythematosus is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by autoantibody production and immune-complex–mediated tissue damage. Autoantibody-secreting plasma cells are increasingly recognized as essential drivers of chronic inflammation in lupus, but targeting them…
- Two-Year, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Belimumab in Lupus Nephritis September 17, 2020Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by loss of immune tolerance, leads to multisystem inflammation and organ injury. Lupus nephritis, which occurs in 25 to 60% of patients with SLE, is the most common severe manifestation of SLE and a major cause of…
- Belimumab as Add-on Therapy in Lupus Nephritis September 17, 2020Nephritis, the most common serious manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), affects up to 50% of patients with this condition. Proliferative lupus nephritis typically manifests with microscopic hematuria, nonnephrotic proteinuria, renal insufficiency, and hypertension, whereas…
