What We’re Reading: Unpaid Medical Debt; COVID-19 and Hypertension; SNAP Work Requirement Changes
August 21st 2023About 17 million middle-class Americans have unpaid medical bills; more than 1 in 5 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 developed high blood pressure; work requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to begin in September.
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Dr Sara Horst Shares Benefits of Recent Digital Health Developments
August 21st 2023Sara Horst, MD, MPH, FACG, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discussed the recent digital health developments most beneficial to both patients and providers, as well as considerations around using these tools wisely.
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Dr Kevin Davies Discusses Challenges of Streamlining CRISPR Technology Delivery
August 19th 2023Kevin Davies, PhD, executive editor, The CRISPR Journal and GEN Biotechnology, and author of Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing, discusses the difficulties inherent in making CRISPR gene editing technology an equitable treatment.
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Dr Gustavo Fonseca on Key Takeaways From an FCS Analysis on Clinical Trial Enrollment
August 19th 2023Gustavo Fonseca, MD, FACP, physician director of clinical research, Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), discusses the results from a late phase complexity analysis on barriers to clinical trials regarding biopsy requirements.
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FDA Approves FoundationOne CDx as Companion Diagnostic for Niraparib/Abiraterone in mCRPC
August 19th 2023The FDA companion diagnostic designation for FoundationOne CDx may improve access to niraparib/abiraterone acetate for eligible patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) harboring a BRCA mutation.
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Study Validates PSA-Based Recurrence Definitions for Prostate Cancer Prognostication
August 19th 2023Researchers determined that the Huber et al. criteria regarding prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels may more accurately predict the need for additional treatment or the possibility of treatment failure compared with other PSA-based definitions.
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Time to Treatment Initiation Affected by Demographics, Socioeconomics in CRC, NSCLC
August 18th 2023Delays in time to treatment initiation may be associated with demographic and socioeconomic disparities, with care coordination, clinical, and socioeconomic factors representing potential predictors of time to treatment initiation.
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EMA Accepts Marketing Application for Odronextamab in R/R DLBCL, Follicular Lymphoma
August 18th 2023The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for odronextamab for relapsed/refractory (R/R) follicular lymphoma (FL) or R/R diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) following disease progression after at least 2 prior lines of systemic therapy.
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CAR T-Cell Therapy Shown Safe, Effective in MCL With CNS Involvement
August 18th 2023A small study suggests the use of anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) with secondary central nervous system (CNS) involvement is safe and effective.
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Quality vs Convenience: Rural Cancer Patients Weigh Options for Surgical Care
August 17th 2023“Our study suggests that narrowly focusing on hospital volumes and tying that to insurance reimbursement might mask complexities and trade-offs in achieving the goal of optimizing patient outcomes and experiences,” lead co-author Lindsay Sabik, PhD, says.
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