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Fahad Tahir, MAS, MBA, FACHE, of Ascension St Thomas, discusses health system innovation and entrepreneurship, highlighting specialty care advancements and leadership strategies for fostering innovation.

Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, of Tennessee Oncology and Thyme Care, discusses the future of specialty value-based care and how attendees can apply what they learned at the Institute for Value-Based Medicine event on August 22.

National data sets and registries are able to provide outcomes data and process measures that testify to quality of care being delivered, said Matthew Nielsen, MD, FACS, chair, Department of Urology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

By analyzing the surface proteome of a wide-ranging sample of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) specimens, researchers identified potential antigens and primitive cell markers representative of AML supgroups.

This second installment on the threat of forever chemicals examines the impactful policies brought about during the Biden-Harris administration that are set to play a role in the future manufacturing, use, and monitoring of these harmful substances.

Also known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, black lung disease (or miner’s lung) is typically the result of inhaling coal dust for many years that causes scarring in the lungs and makes breathing increasingly difficult. The prevalence of black lung has been on the rise in the US.

Improvements in multiplex immunofluorescence and spatial analysis have enabled a better understanding of the ways classical Hodgkin lymphoma evades the immune system.

The authors said their findings also suggest AXL inhibition might be an important therapeutic strategy.

Brooke Kempf, PMHNP, from Indiana University Indianapolis, discusses the importance of timely outpatient care and how innovative approaches like long-acting injectables (LAIs) are helping to bridge the gap in treatment for schizophrenia.

A single-center cohort study found no differences between males and females in the odds of starting or time to treatment in generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG), but investigators want to continue to probe more deeply into why women are more severely affected by the disease.

When women with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) carrying high-risk pregnancies collaborate with their health care providers to find the best individualized continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment, their risks of gestational hypertension and preeclampsia may drop appreciably

Learn more about the negotiated Medicare drug prices and what the FDA's rejection of therapeutic MDMA means for mental health care through expert reactions. Other highlights include pharmacy-based HIV care, gaps in care for gastrointestinal stromal tumors, and the obesity epidemic.

Treatment with bimekizumab showed consistent efficacy through 52 weeks in patients with psoriatic arthritis in a post hoc analysis of the BE OPTIMAL, BE COMPLETE, and BE VITAL trials.

Both cycling and home-based exercise training helped maintain gait and balance parameters in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), with cycling training also improving antero-posterior balance.

A retrospective, single-center cohort study utilized liver ultrasound, serum collection, and proteome analysis to draw associations between spinal motor neuron (SMN) protein depletion and heightened risk for fatty liver disease in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

The 10th annual meeting of the Family Heart Global Summit will bring together leading scientists and practitioners with patients to discuss treatment of inherited lipid disorders.

The majority of federal savings indicated by the Inflation Reduction Act's Drug Price Negotiation Program can be attributed to 3 drugs.

Changes in formulary coverage for 2024 are impacting Medicare patients' access to and ability to afford various prescription medications.

Though circulating high mobility group box-1 levels appear to be a biomarker for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in adults with congenital heart disease, the same is not true in pediatric patients.

A meta-analysis demonstrated the superiority of Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BKTi) in the overall survival of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia compared with other therapies.

A review of the upcoming schedule of the Institute for Value-Based Medicine.

Analysis of the phase 3 explorer7 (NCT04083781) study indicates a preference for concizumab prophylaxis over no prophylaxis in patients with hemophilia A or B with inhibitors.

Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD, MAS, AAHIVP, University of California, San Francisco, School of Pharmacy, discusses the benefits of pharmacy-administered long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy for HIV and patient attitudes toward pharmacy-administered treatment.

Recent years have brought a more targeted approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML) based on accumulating knowledge about the genetic makeup of the heterogenous disease.

CAR T-cell therapy results in a high incidence of cytokine release syndrome, but it is manageable in most cases.

A predictive tool considering disease duration, age at disease onset, age, and Expanded Disability Status Scale score estimated patients’ risk of transition to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS).

Lumbar spine bone mineral density improved significantly and was maintained during long-term tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) treatment for axial spondyloarthritis.