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A roundup of cancer news from the ESMO Breast Cancer Virtual Congress 2021, which took place last week and was covered by OncLive®.

Dupilumab is effective for atopic dermatitis, asthma, and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, but a recent presentation noted the payer challenge in placing the biologic in an optimal tier.

The FDA cleared Bigfoot BioMedical's Diabetes Management System.

A small study, based on 4 family members with Fabry disease, affirms the importance of early enzyme replacement therapy.

HHS announces prohibitions against discriminating by sexual orientation, gender identity in health care; updated CDC guidance highlights airborne threat of COVID-19; European Union, Pfizer/BioNTech agree to deal that could reach 1.8 billion vaccine doses.

Frank Martin, PhD, director of research at JDRF, shares feedback from patients on JDRF's T1Detect screening program.

Michelle M Cloutier, MD, is professor emerita at UCONN Health in Farmington, Connecticut, and chair of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Coordinating Committee Expert Panel Working Group.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare issues of rising high health care costs and disproportionate coverage nationwide, executive decision makers at large employers indicated their support for greater government intervention to address concerns.

Soft tissue and bone infections, urinary tract infections, stroke, and electrolyte disorder top the reasons why patients with diabetes are admitted to the hospital at greater frequency and cost compared with patients without the disease, according to a new study.

Strategies for improving outcomes across hematologic cancers and solid tumors range from addressing cytokine release syndrome and neurotoxicity mediators, immune rejection, on-target off-tumor toxicity, post-infusion control limitation, and immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.

BK virus–specific T cells from healthy donors were an effective and safe off-the-shelf treatment for patients with leukemia or lymphoma who developed a painful and common complication after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Biomarkers are being used in patients with cancer to target treatments that will work best. Interviews with OncLive® highlight how biomarkers are being used in colorectal and bladder cancer.

Using acitretin in combination with secukinumab resulted in nearly complete or total relief for 3 patients with severe psoriasis, according to a case study.

Intravitreal dexamethasone implants stabilized, but did not improve, vision for most patients with macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion (RVO).

A roundup of diabetes news you may have missed from across MJH Life Sciences™.

Although knowledge is plentiful on disease state improvements for adult patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) following use of newer disease-modifying therapies, less is known about similar outcomes among patients with pediatric-onset MS (POMS).

Through matching-adjusted indirect comparison, the authors of the abstract compared the use of umbralisib with other PI3Kis in this setting and found that the treatment yielded the lowest discontinuation rates due to adverse events (AEs), had a lower AE management cost burden, and achieved better duration of responses.

Specific factors, such as experience with technology and health literacy, were key drivers of whether a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) would benefit or be likely to use eHealth tools to improve self-management skills, investigators concluded.

About 90% of patients are diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in an outpatient setting, while the 10% diagnosed in an emergency department or as inpatients incur significantly higher health care costs.

William Shrank, MD, MSHS, the chief medical officer of Humana, discusses how the company is trying to overcome any vaccine hesitancy both in its workforce and in its insured member population.

The literature review included 25 studies related to diagnostic impact of liquid biopsies versus tissue biopsies and 3 studies that assessed the economic impacts of the 2 biopsies.

In a first-of-its kind study, young children undergoing heart surgery had similar results regardless of whether they received levosimendan intravenously or via inhalation.

The group-based Sleep Apnea Management clinic at Cleveland Clinic's Sleep Disorders Center increased criteria-met adherence to positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy by 20% in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

For patients with acute and chronic graft-vs-host disease (GVHD), systemic treatment with steroids is the standard of care, and although steroid-related complications are common, the associated health care resource utilization and costs are not well documented.

A new analysis finds the global COVID-19 death toll is much higher than previously estimated; data show promising efficacy rates of COVID-19 vaccines in teens; the US COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver may not result in immediate aid to countries.

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As the population continues to diversify, the United States may be headed for increases in atopic dermatitis disease burden among children, said Jonathan Silverberg, MD, PhD, MPH.

Administrative claims data in oncology often lack sufficient information to conduct postmarketing comparison studies of biosimilars with their reference product, suggesting that other sources are needed to answer critical research questions.

As people socially distanced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the problems of loneliness and social isolation were exacerbated.

The study results were released as nephrologists and others are awaiting the findings of a joint task force of 2 national kidney organizations looking at alternative approaches to estimating glomerular filtration rate.