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A study looking at the ways in which different countries handle appraisal and reimbursement processes for rare disease treatments (RDTs) revealed that implementing supplemental processes can aid in patient and physician decision making.

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, presented the latest round of data from REDUCE-IT at the American Society of Preventive Cardiology Virtual Summit 2020 this morning

In the last 3 months of life, health care costs were significantly lower for patients receiving multidisciplinary collaborative care than for patients receiving specialized care or nonspecialized care. The differences in costs were primarily driven by differences in hospitalizations and emergency department visits.

In children with inflammatory rheumatic diseases, tocilizumab can cause serious adverse events (AEs), with children who were younger at disease onset and at time of tocilizumab initiation especially affected.

Just when renal replacement therapy should start after acute kidney injury has been debated.

The orders President Trump signed Friday include a deadline for the pharmaceutical industry to come up with their own plan by August 24 to lower prices.

The therapy, to be sold as Tecartus, will be used to treat adult patients with mantle cell lymphoma who have relapsed or not responded to other treatments.

IQVIA, a health information technology and clinical research company, recently announced a new collaboration with JDRF, the world’s largest nonprofit funder of type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Together, the companies plan to develop a real-world research platform to facilitate evidence generation for T1D via non-identified patient-level data and analytics.

A recent webinar discussed what causes symptom recurrence in patients with Parkinson disease and what implications this has for health outcomes and health care cost.

Using a computational algorithm, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia analyzed noncoding genetic mutations to discover how they factor into 5 pediatric cancers.

The researchers noted that these results can help inform therapeutic decision making and identify opportunities to address barriers to disease-modifying drug (DMD) adherence, which not only improves clinical outcomes but also reaps benefits when it comes to health care costs.

This week, the top managed care news included states suing the Trump administration over an HHS rule on nondiscrimination; experimental vaccines show promise against COVID-19 in healthy subjects; diagnostic delays from COVID-19 may increase cancer-related deaths.

Intensity of headache pain is as important as frequency when evaluating the clinical response and impact of migraine preventive treatment with OnabotulinumtoxinA on patient headache-related disability, according to a recent study.

The health burden of comorbid chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma is known to be greater than when either condition exists on its own. An upcoming study shows that COPD is linked with greater all-cause mortality and greater risk of mortality in patients with coexisting asthma who also had long-term use of corticosteroids.

New CDC data outline the prevalence of 5 common underlying health conditions that exacerbate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms; the FDA announced information regarding naloxone must be included on labels for opioids and opioid use disorder medications; despite a district judge's ruling nearly a month ago, hundreds of migrant detainees are being held in detention centers in states where COVID-19 cases are surging.

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Experts surveyed regarding how best to treat patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) amid the pandemic agreed with social distancing, but were cautious about universal testing and treatment continuation.

A new study may have uncovered reasons why some patients with multiple myeloma have poor outcomes following allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

A phase 3 study of ruxolitinib (Jakafi) has met its primary end point of superior overall response rate (ORR) compared with the best available therapy in patients with moderate or severe steroid-refractory or steroid dependent chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

While clinical guidelines call for those with diabetes to be tested regularly for kidney disease, less than 50% of these patients are tested once a year, according to the National Kidney Foundation.

Pandemic anxiety continues to hurt Americans' mental health, while concerns about the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) splits by party affiliation and background.

Writing in Nature, scientists found the antibodies fell into 2 distinct groups, targeting different regions of the viral spike. Thus, they say, the battle against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could be opened on separate fronts, much like the approach Ho and others have studied in HIV and some forms of cancer.

This week, the FDA approved Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ XywavTM (calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium oxybates), an oral solution for the treatment of cataplexy or excessive daytime sleepiness in patients 7 years and older with narcolepsy.

Transferring from pediatric to adult care can result in difficulties for patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus.

Labs nationwide are struggling to meet the processing demands of surging coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests, causing long delays; levels of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were found to drop dramatically across the first 3 months of infection; suspected opioid-related overdoses have more than doubled in Wisconsin amid the pandemic.

In 2 studies of secukinumab use in real-world settings, researchers identified the usefulness of dose escalation in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), as well as the safety, retention rate, and factors associated with drug survival among patients with PsA and ankylosing spondyloarthritis.

Current existing research highlights the important association between the increased risk of suicidal behaviors among chronic migraineurs with and without aura, in both the clinical and general population worldwide, according to a systematic review published in Frontiers in Neurology.

Women with early-onset germline BRCA-mutated breast cancer can have subsequent pregnancies without increasing their risk for disease recurrence, according to the authors of a recent study in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In 2 midyear deals reports issued today by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), total US health services deal value and volume were down in the first half (H1) of 2020 compared with H1 2019, with overall global pharma and life sciences sectors also down in H1 2020 compared with the second half of 2019.

Findings from the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s (MJFF) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survey, based on patient-reported information from Fox Insight, highlight the known adverse effects of general infections on worsening of motor and nonmotor symptoms in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). However, there still remains insufficient data on the specified risk of COVID-19 in the PD community, noted Vanessa Arnedo, vice president of Research Cohorts for MJFF, and Ethan Brown, MD, neurologist and principal investigator of the MJFF COVID-19 survey.