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Even though the number of US adults who smoke has decreased in the last decade, racial and ethnic disparities persist, and equitable interventions are needed.

The FDA approved Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine Wednesday; Medicare announced plans to largely cover a new class of expensive Alzheimer drugs; more states are extending postpartum coverage under Medicaid.

Individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D) had brain atrophy patterns equivalent to a brain age about 6 years older than their actual age.

Olaparib plus abiraterone and prednisone or prednisolone already is approved in the European Union and several other countries.

The 2023 Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit took place in early May in Las Vegas, Nevada, and The American Journal of Managed Care® was there to cover the meeting—catch up on what you may have missed.

Children were hospitalized most commonly due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) compared with influenza and COVID-19 during a season with respiratory pathogen cocirculation.

A web-based physical activity self-management intervention for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) might be helpful for urban participants across 4 months, but not so much for rural participants.

Ixazomib was first approved in the United States in 2015 for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The SLEEP 2023 conference will be held in Indianapolis from June 3 to June 7 and promises to feature topics including sleep health disparities, hypersomnia, geriatric medicine, and new technologies.

In this preview interview for SLEEP 2023, Rebecca Spencer, PhD, chair of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies Program Committee, highlights how bringing patients and clinicians together can inspire new ideas in sleep medicine.

Sick restaurants workers are among the main drivers of foodborne illness outbreaks at restaurants, according to the CDC; Sackler family members of Purdue Pharma can be protected from opioid liability, an appeals court rules; Sweden nears becoming the first “smoke free” country in Europe as daily cigarette use falls.

In some cases, individuals of Puerto Rican descent face lower risk than other Hispanic groups in the United States.

This is the first study to investigate a potential connection between anthracycline chemotherapy and risk of heart failure (HF) in young adult cancer survivors.

Adalimumab had a slight advantage over infliximab in terms of adverse events when used to treat patients with noninfectious uveitis (NIU).

Andrew Evens, DO, MBA, MSc, associate director for clinical services at Rutgers Cancer Institute, discussed the ways in which SWOG S1826 trial results will build on current knowledge of Hodgkin lymphoma treatment.

Debt limit deal will not effect Medicaid; a national safety board may make health care safer; experimental hemophilia therapy reduces bleeding.

Quality of life (QOL) for people living with autoimmune diseases benefits from an integrated approach that considers individual immune system sensitivities and patients’ life circumstances, a new study shows.

Mitzi Joi Williams, MD, FAAN, medical director and CEO of Joi Life Wellness Neurology Clinic, discusses how underrepresentation of minority population patients in clinical trials became an issue and how education and raising awareness can begin to remedy it.

Nicholas Bagley, JD, professor at Michigan Law at the University of Michigan, speaks about the benefits of ongoing communication about the effects of the Braidwood ruling and what will be done to keep preventive care accessible.

To stratify the risk of future epilepsy, physicians have historically used lumbar puncture, neuroimaging, and electroencephalography in these patients.

Mark A. Socinski, MD, executive director at AdventHealth Cancer Institute, shares insight on the cost-effectiveness and utility of biomarker testing in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals received approval for sotagliflozin to treat a broad range of left ventricular ejection fraction, for patients with and without diabetes.

Christopher P. Cannon, MD, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior physician in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, spoke about the benefit seen in a study of sotagliflozin for patients with acute heart failure.

The predictive ability of cough sound algorithms shows promise in detecting acute respiratory diseases, study finds.

With surveys demonstrating that care disparities in atopic dermatitis (AD) may exist among pediatric patients with the chronic skin condition, investigators set out to determine AD’s prevalence by sociodemographic subgroup.

The study also showed that the measurement of HbA1c—which serves as an indicator of clinical assessment—sharply drops in the late teenage years among individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

The FDA approves Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 drug; hundreds of thousands of people lose Medicaid coverage after pandemic protections expire; irregular menstrual cycles seem to be linked with higher cardiovascular disease (CVD) risks.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the lead researcher from a study published in the May 2023 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about the impact of low-income subsidies on the uptake and equitable use of expensive orally administered antimyeloma therapy.

Use of a mobile app was not associated with better cardiac outcomes or completing a cardiac rehabilitation program.

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