Obese Patients Undergoing Plastic Surgery Incur Higher Healthcare Costs

Medicare Advantage enrollees, particularly Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander decedents, use less end-of-life home health care than those enrolled in traditional Medicare.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Jenny Han, MD, of Emory School of Medicine and Grady Hospital, about COVID-19, long COVID, and strategies for prevention and care.

The CELESTIAL-301 trial evaluating SynKIR-310, a novel chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, has dosed its first patient with relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL).

Three abstracts presented at the 2024 American Society of Hematology annual meeting focused on patient preferences and treatment choices in blood cancers.

Although long-term nursing home stay or death decreased before the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend slowed during the pandemic across all racial and ethnic groups.

First-line maintenance (1LM) niraparib significantly extends progression-free survival (rwPFS) and time to next treatment (rwTTNT) in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), with the greatest benefit observed in those considered homologous recombination-deficient (HRd) and those with BRCA-mutated (BRCAm) tumors.