Reactions and commentary on breaking clinical and health economic data presented at top conferences and their impact on practice and policy.
ID Week 2024: Key Updates in UTIs
December 20th 2024Wendy Cheng, PhD, MPH, discusses how recent research presented at ID Week 2024, including the EAGLE-2 and EAGLE-3 trials on gepotidacin, highlights new treatment options for urinary tract infections (UTIs), addressing unmet needs and the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance.
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Post Conference Perspectives: ASH 2024
December 19th 2024Sergio A. Giralt, MD, discusses how the approval of axatilimab and emerging therapies, including ibrutinib and rituximab combinations, are reshaping the treatment landscape for chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD), with a focus on improving efficacy, safety, and patient outcomes based on recent American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2024) findings.
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ASH 2024: Advancing the Multiple Myeloma Landscape
December 18th 2024Saad Z. Usmani, MD, MBA, FACP, discusses how the latest findings from studies presented at the 2024 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, including the AQUILA, MajesTEC-5, and iMMagine-1 trials, highlight the potential of early intervention, bispecific antibodies, and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies to transform the treatment landscape for multiple myeloma.
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AHA 2024 Key Takeaways: Innovations in Managing Heart Failure
December 6th 2024Orly Vardeny, PharmD, MS, discusses how glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists demonstrate multiple cardioprotective mechanisms including reduced inflammation, improved glucose metabolism, and enhanced endothelial function, while clinical trials of both finerenone and ferric carboxymaltose evaluate specific outcomes in patients with heart failure through rigorous study protocols.
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CHEST 2024 Key Takeaways: Innovations in IPF and PAH
November 12th 2024Steven Nathan, MD, discusses how key findings from CHEST 2024, including survival predictors from the IPF-PRO Registry and the potential of inhaled treprostinil for CTD-PAH, are shaping new approaches to managing IPF and PAH, with a focus on early diagnosis, personalized treatments, and improving patient outcomes.
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AJMC Post Conference Perspectives: ESC Congress 2024: Updates in Managing Heart Failure
September 24th 2024Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, discusses The American Journal of Managed Care® Post Conference Perspectives from European Society of Cardiology Congress 2024 in London, United Kingdom, focusing on key updates in heart failure management, including the implications of the FINEARTS-HF trial findings on finerenone, the role of β-blockers and dapagliflozin, and the need to address unmet needs in treatment strategies for patients with mildly reduced and preserved ejection fractions.
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ASCO 2024: Advances in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
July 12th 2024A key opinion leader analyzes pivotal non-small cell lung cancer trials presented at ASCO 2024, including LAURA, CHRYSALIS-2, TROPION-Lung05, and CheckMate 9LA, discussing their implications for treatment strategies in non-small cell lung cancer.
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