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What We're Reading: MSKCC Medical Officer Resigns; Drug Ad Plan Stopped; Transgender Teen Suicide Study
José Baselga, MD, the chief medical officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, resigned after it was reported that he failed to disclose any industry ties in 60% of the nearly 180 papers he had published since 2013; an idea to give a push to the president’s plan to disclose drug prices on television was sunk this week by House Republicans; transgender adolescents attempt suicide at a much higher rate than young people whose gender identity matches the sex on their birth certificates.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Chief Medical Officer Resigns
José Baselga, MD, the chief medical officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, resigned after ProPublica and The New York Times found that he failed to report any industry ties in 60% of the nearly 180 papers he had published since 2013. That figure increased each year. Last year, he did not disclose any relationships in 87% of the journal articles that he cowrote, according to the report.
House Republicans Stymie Trump's Drug Advertising Plan
An idea to give a push to the president’s plan to disclosed drug prices on television was sunk this week by House Republicans, STAT reported. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wanted to include an amendment in a major government funding bill that would give the FDA $1 million to kick off advertising idea, which he first floated in May. But the amendment failed to make into a final version being hashed out in a Senate-House reconciliation meeting about the funding bills, aides and Congressman Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, said.
Transgender Youth Have High Suicide Rate, Study Finds
Transgender adolescents attempt suicide at a much higher rate than young people whose gender identity matches the sex on their birth certificates, according to a new study published this week in Pediatrics. The Washington Post reported on the study, as well as the experience of 1 transgender woman whose experiences led her to create a hotline called Trans Lifeline. The highest rate reported in the study was suffered by transgender male adolescents (51%).
Urticaria Diagnosis Challenged by Overlapping Pruritic Skin Conditions
April 23rd 2025Urticaria is complicated to diagnose by its symptomatic overlap with other skin conditions and the frequent misclassification in literature of distinct pathologies like vasculitic urticaria and bullous pemphigus.
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New Research Challenges Assumptions About Hospital-Physician Integration, Medicare Patient Mix
April 22nd 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.
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Personalized Care Key as Tirzepatide Use Expands Rapidly
April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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ACOs’ Focus on Rooting Out Fraud Aligns With CMS Vision Under Oz
April 23rd 2025Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are increasingly playing the role of data sleuths as they identify and report trends of anomalous billing in hopes of salvaging their shared savings. This mission dovetails with that of CMS, which under the new administration plans to prioritize rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse.
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