Dr Andy Blauvelt on Selecting the Right Patient for Systemic Therapy or Biologics to Treat AD
May 2nd 2023Andy Blauvelt, MD, MBA, president of Oregon Medical Research Center, discusses the use of systemic therapies vs biologics and why adherence is so important when treating patients with atopic dermatitis (AD).
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Democrats look to build on the Inflation Reduction Act, and both parties seem to want to reform the pharmacy benefit manager industry; the US federal government and Gilead Sciences will go to trial this week in a multibillion-dollar dispute; the US Surgeon General warns that loneliness is a public health threat.
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Payers, Drug Manufacturers Can Expect More Liability Under New IRA Drug Pricing Policies
May 2nd 2023Panelists at the 2023 Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit discussed the myriad of ways that the drug pricing policies of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), such as inflation rebates and a redesign of Medicare Part D plans, will affect payers and manufacturers.
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Children of Mothers With HDP Have Greater Risk of Overall, Specific High Refractive Error
May 1st 2023A Danish study of nationwide registries estimated a 39% greater risk of high refractive error among children of mothers with hypertensive disorder of pregnancy (HDP), a complication that affects 5% to 10% of pregnancies.
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Younger Women vs Men Have Worse Outcomes Following AMI
May 1st 2023This subanalysis of data from the VIRGO study encompassed 2979 patients who had an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), or heart attack, between ages 18 and 55 years; outcomes evaluated included all-cause and cause-specific acute events requiring hospitalization in the year after discharge for a heart attack.
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Machine-Learning Approach Identifies 3 Behavioral Phenotypes of TLE
May 1st 2023Patients in this study, who had overall significantly higher scores than controls, fell into 3 categories of psychological risk from temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) based on analysis with unsupervised machine learning.
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What We’re Reading: NY Dental Coverage Expands; Abortion Denial Broke Law; Masking Comes Undone
May 1st 2023A settled class-action lawsuit paves the way for 5 million New Yorkers on Medicaid to have expanded dental coverage; 2 hospitals broke federal law by denying a woman whose life was in danger an abortion; mask mandates in most health care settings are being lifted around the United States.
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Dr Robert Sidbury: How to Treat Facial Atopic Dermatitis in Infants
May 1st 2023Robert Sidbury, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics at Seattle Children's Hospital, discusses treatment approaches for atopic dermatitis of the face in infancy, which he presented at the Revolutionizing Atopic Dermatitis conference.
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Dr Mark Fendrick Talks About Clinical Effects of the Braidwood Ruling
May 1st 2023A. Mark Fendrick, MD, co–editor in chief of The American Journal of Managed Care® and director of the V-BID Center at the University of Michigan, discusses how the Braidwood ruling can affect the efficacy of preventive care.
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Dr Mitzi Joi Williams: SDOH, Care Access May Affect MS Outcomes
April 30th 2023It is likely that social determinants of health (SDOH) may affect the differences in outcomes from multiple sclerosis (MS) that we see among Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx populations, absent more data on their genetics and ancestry, noted Mitzi Joi Williams, MD, FAAN.
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Value-Based Care: Is It Possible for All Providers to Succeed?
April 29th 2023Craig D. Pederson, principal at Insight Health Care Partners, discussed the evolving landscape of value-based care and challenges to implementation from the provider perspective during his keynote presentation at the National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP) Spring Managed Care Forum 2023.
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The European Union has proposed the biggest drug overhaul in 20 years, prompting industry conflict; CMS has proposed 2 new rules focused on increasing care access and quality of care for people enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program; proposed legislation would promise $6 billion for treatments of drug-resistant infections that win approval.
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