Risankizumab Associated With Improved Skin Clearance vs Secukinumab in Moderate to Severe Psoriasis
January 28th 2022Psoriasis Area and Severity Index scores indicated that patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis had improved skin clearance when treated with risankizumab compared with secukinumab treatment.
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LV Changes, CABG Contribute to Higher Mortality Risk From Heart Failure
January 28th 2022In this new study from China, the link between left ventricular (LV) structural changes and mortality following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) was investigated among a patient cohort with heart failure with reduce ejection fraction.
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Steroid-Eluting Implants May Reduce Health Care Utilization From Chronic Rhinosinusitis
January 28th 2022Lower health care utilization was shown in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis, with and without nasal polyps, who had steroid-eluting implants vs those who did not in the 18 months following endoscopic sinus surgery.
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Combination Therapy May Prevent Secukinumab Switching in Psoriasis
January 28th 2022Patients with psoriasis who experienced secukinumab secondary failure did not require switching after experiencing significant improvement of daily functioning and quality of life when given a combination rescue therapy.
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Incyte Withdraws FDA Submission for Parsaclisib for FL, MZL, MCL
January 27th 2022Incyte has become the latest company to pull an FDA filing following Gilead and Secura Bio, which both voluntarily withdrew therapies that had been granted accelerated approval but hadn’t completed confirmatory studies for full approval.
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Point-of-Care Testing Has Potential to Expand the Reach of NGS for CRC
January 27th 2022This 9-month investigation looked into the potential for next-generation sequencing (NGS) at the point of care to increase turnaround time for biomarker testing results in advanced colorectal cancer (CRC).
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New Section on Chronic Kidney Disease Risk Management Added to ADA Standard of Care Guidelines
January 27th 2022The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has added a new section to their 2022 Standard of Care guidelines to assist clinicians in managing and preventing the presence of chronic kidney disease and related complications in patients with diabetes.
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Multidisciplinary Care Emphasized for Pregnant Women With SMA
January 27th 2022According to researchers, this case of a patient with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) from Indonesia was the first to use a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach that involved obstetric, neurology, pediatric, and anesthesiology departments at a hospital.
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Dupilumab Significantly Reduces Hospitalization Rates in Patients With Atopic Dermatitis
January 27th 2022Patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) treated with dupilumab showed reduced hospitalization rates and shorter duration of AD-related hospitalizations vs those treated with control therapies.
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Persistent Care Variations Uncovered in New Breast Cancer Study
January 27th 2022This new analysis among patients with stage I to III breast cancer investigated outcomes in connection with 5 care delivery variables: stage I at diagnosis, chemotherapy receipt, radiation therapy receipt, endocrine therapy initiation, and endocrine therapy continuation.
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Study Supports Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines’ Safety in Patients With Multiple Myeloma
January 26th 2022Study results showed that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines were safe and effective in patients with multiple myeloma, which investigators hope will improve vaccine hesitancy in the high-risk population.
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Number of Accountable Care Organizations Joining MSSP in 2022 Grew Slightly, CMS Says
January 26th 2022In its annual Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) report, CMS said the number of accountable care organizations joining increased, but a trade group said the results should have been better.
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Panelists Explore What Exactly Is Holding Up US Adoption of Biosimilars
January 26th 2022Payer intervention, lack of patient savings, and confusion surrounding interchangeability are some of the many barriers standing in the way of US biosimilar uptake, with our group of panelists calling for big changes.
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A study found 4 factors may correlate with increased risk of long-term COVID-19; Rhode Island joins opioid settlement against McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health; the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will station mobile equipment in Louisiana to measure air pollution.
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GPBCH Speakers Support Potential Benefit Design for Obesity
January 25th 2022Speakers at the Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health (GPBCH) discussed data on lifestyles, economic trends, and presented real-life examples of obesity treatment, as well as a benefit design for obesity.
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Depression Screening Shown to Benefit Persons Living With Breast Cancer
January 25th 2022This new study of data from Kaiser Permanente Southern California compared outcomes for behavioral health referrals among patients with breast cancer between those receiving a tailored intervention or an education-only approach.
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How Patient Descriptors Influence Racial Bias in the Electronic Health Record
January 25th 2022On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Michael Sun, a medical student at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, who served as first author of a Health Affairs study showing that race and bias were significantly associated with negative patient descriptors in the electronic health record.
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