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Streamlining the prior authorization process can improve care accuracy and patient access to care, writes Siva Namasivayam, CEO of Cohere Health.

A recent CDC report found that 80% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable; Centene will pay $166 million to Texas in Medicaid pricing settlement; Johns Hopkins has warned that it may no longer accept CareFirst insurance after December 5.

A recent study showed that receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits was not enough to address food insecurity among families whose children were fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

At 12 weeks, nearly 8 in 10 patients had significant improvement.

Newer therapies, such as ketamine or esketamine, or the broader use of bright light therapy, made an updated clinical practice guideline for treating major depressive disorder (MDD), but psilocybin and cannabis did not.

A systematic review found that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) therapy could selectively improve autonomic function measures and may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Previous study results on incidence of skin cancers in persons with albino skin who live in Africa have been inconsistent, despite this population having a known higher risk for the disease.

A recent study found that patients with chronic kidney disease and atrial fibrillation are increasingly using direct oral anticoagulants.

The gene therapy is the first treatment for active cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects boys.

Adolescents who identified as Black, Mexican-American, or low-income and/or were not US citizens were more likely to report worse subjective visual function.

A recent study found that 1 in 5 households were strapped with medical debt; hospitals and hospital systems in North Carolina proposed a way to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of adults; the CDC reported that more adults sought mental health treatment in 2021 compared with 2019.

The case involved a 69-year-old man who presented with lupus nephritis.

Nearly 30% of youths are affected with worsening mental health by the end of adolescence, with anxiety typically presenting in childhood and depression during the teenage years, but the problem is even more acute for Black and Latinx youth.

The findings, produced over a 4-year period, indicate the protein sulfatase-2 (Sulf-2) may be a therapeutic target in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Russell Rotondo, MD, FACC, medical director of clinical strategy and innovation for cardiology at Cohere Health, discusses the myriad positive ways utilization management programs can have an impact on patient outcomes in cardiovascular care.

The review discusses hydroxyurea and 3 additional drugs approved by the FDA—L-glutamine, crizanlizumab, and voxelotor—as well as agents currently being investigated to treat sickle cell disease (SCD).

The study pooled data from 4 clinical trials to gain insight into surgical outcomes in this complex population.

The retrospective claims database analysis looked at patients in the United States, where it is estimated that costs related to asthma are more than $80 billion annually.

Patrick Burnett, MD, PhD, FAAD, chief medical officer of Arcutis Biotherapeutics, discusses clinical recommendations for patients with moderate to severe psoriasis, particularly the need for shared decision-making.

Despite $2.5 million placeholder price tags, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review draft evidence report considers gene therapy cost-effective versus comparators in both hemophilia A and B.

Sutimlimab demonstrated rapid efficacy in the study cohort, and platelet level improvements were sustained for the duration of treatment in nearly half of the participants.

It is already known that patients with eosinophilic esophagitis have higher levels of immunoglobulin G4, and this study examined the relationship to specific foods and aeroallergens.

The review highlights current strategies for myeloid cell targeting and novel agents targeting myeloid cells for cancer treatment.

This new study of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) among women examined the in-common symptoms of different disease phenotypes to see where they overlap and ultimately to define the “symptome” according to symptom cluster and characteristics.

Patients with hepatic encephalopathy (HE) often do not seek care until they are in critical condition, making an optimized emergency care process critical to reduce adverse prognosis and improve clinical symptoms.

The proposed multitask learning (MTL) model was developed using data from wearable devices worn by individuals in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to predict outcomes of a depression treatment.

Patients with Parkinson disease demonstrated significant reduction in depressive symptoms with citalopram and pramipexole, with pramipexole showing slightly more benefit in improving quality of life.

This randomized, multicenter study of children and adolescents with new-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D) investigated the effect on glucose control of a closed-loop system, using C-peptide levels to gauge response

The study analyzed 20 clinical prediction models (CPMs) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), all of which were deemed to have a high risk of bias, leading the researchers to urge against their use to guide decision-making without addressing their limitations.

Health experts warn that all should brace for a flu season that could be worse than the past 2 years; the CDC is opening applications to a vaccine equity program that will help those who may have limited access to the monkeypox vaccine; a new report found that health care services will be greatly affected by climate change.