Hospitals' Struggles to Beat Back Familiar Infections Began Before Ebola Arrived

Put up against placebo in the phase 3 EMBARK trial, delandistrogene moxeparvovec (Elevidys) did not significantly improve function after 52 weeks.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the chief science officer of the Center for Innovation & Value Research about key insights from its Rare Disease project.

Oral function should be measured routinely to determine individual bulbar involvement stages in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

Shereef Elnahal, MD, MBA, under secretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), sat for a conversation with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, Tennessee Oncology, that covered the cancer footprint of the VHA.

Patients aged 2-21 receiving apitegromab showed clinically meaningful motor function improvements, with a favorable safety profile consistent with long-term data, as Scholar Rock prepares for US and EU regulatory submissions in Q1 2025.

Less than a third of FDA-mandated trials for drugs approved between 2015 and 2021 had been completed by May 2024.