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This new study from South Korea investigated if patients with cancer could be at potential greater risk of kidney failure and found connections with several cancer types.

Despite executive orders by the Biden administration aimed to improve competition in the pharmaceutical industry, pay-for-delay deals and other antitrust issues continue to be reported. On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak on the history and prevalence of these anticompetitive tactics and steps to limit these deals.

An analysis of gestational diabetes trends in the United States revealed increases across all age and racial subgroups over the past decade.

Mary Pat Gallagher, MD, of NYU Langone Health, outlines why young individuals should be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Finnish data on increased rates of type 1 diabetes (T1D) seen during the pandemic.

US health experts to recommend coronavirus vaccine booster shots for all Americans 8 months after receiving their second dose; 5 states report record 7-day averages of new daily cases of COVID-19; debunking concerns of people receiving blood transfusions from vaccinated individuals.

Investigators found that biomarkers for neurodegeneration and inflammation could also aid providers in detecting declines in cognition and information processing speed in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) over a 5-year period.

A new report could eventually help investigators better understand which patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are most likely to respond to certain therapies.

A recent study found half of hospitalized children received a flu vaccination when their providers used a clinical decision support tool; however, that is still lower than the 63% national average for all children.

Researchers evaluated differences among patients with migraine who were diagnosed with the condition upon hospital admission.

The breast cancer drug palbociclib may be able to treat myelofibrosis either alone or in combination with ruxolitinib.

Most patients said they had received instruction on how to use their inhalers from a pharmacist or physician, but only 21% said they had received instruction from both.

Catlin Dennis, MPH, explains the importance of securing internet and technology access among vulnerable youth with diabetes.

The Biden administration announces the largest permanent increase in SNAP benefits history; a potential decision timeline on whether to offer COVID-19 booster shots to Americans may be on the horizon; children hospitalized with COVID-19 reaches a new record high.

The pandemic has shown a spotlight on how critically important respiratory care is to Americans who struggle to breathe on their own. Yet, Medicare policy must be updated to ensure that access to lifesaving equipment will never be disrupted.

A roundup of the latest news in sleep research reported across MJH Life Sciences™.

A recent study aimed to understand whether psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are independent risk factors for coronary calcification and coronary artery disease. It found both correlate with higher rates of calcification, but only psoriasis was linked with severe calcification and disease.

Early responders to the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks are associated with a higher likelihood of liver disease, according to a long-term follow-up of responders.

New strategies are currently being investigated to find out how to avoid resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors and BRAF/MEK inhibitors.

A meta-analysis showed adding trastuzumab to chemotherapy for the treatment of early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer could cut deaths worldwide; a researcher discusses the promise of enfortumab vedotin for advanced urothelial cancers; more research is needed in rare genomic alterations in subsets of colorectal cancer (CRC).

Updated evidence provides new insight into safety, efficacy, and challenges of deprescribing.

An overview of the latest news in Parkinson disease reported across MJH Life Sciences™.

The combination delayed disease progression for a year and a half, suggesting the treatments may be a viable option for patients not eligible for allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

Patients with chronic cough reported autonomic symptoms with substantially increased frequency and severity when compared with a healthy control population.

Use of a smartphone-based application was found to improve medication adherence and some clinical outcomes in patients managing multiple comorbidities using polypharmacy, researchers concluded.

Rajesh Rajpal, MD, chief medical officer, global head of clinical medical affairs, Johnson & Johnson Vision, speaks on the impact of screen usage for eyes and trends in eye symptom burden reported amid the pandemic.

Risk of isolated central nervous system (CNS) involvement was found to be significantly lower in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who received high-dose methotrexate vs RCHOP chemotherapy, although risk of concomitant CNS-systemic relapse rates were similar between both groups.

Findings of a randomized controlled trial revealed no differences among HIV diagnosis rates between targeted screening practices when compared with nontargeted practices.

More than three-quarters of patients with rheumatic diseases quarantined and kept social distance during the pandemic, according to a new global survey.

Patients with nephrotic syndrome were far more likely than healthy controls to suffer end-stage kidney disease, particularly if they had focal segmental glomerulosclerosis or membranous nephropathy.

Recent research showed that patients with Medicaid are more likely than commercially insured patients to have worsened end-of-life experience and that Black patients with breast cancer fare worse than other ethnic groups when it comes COVID-19 outcomes.