Providers

Partnering with pharmacists ensures prescription availability for patients with HIV during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), noted Milena Murray, PharmD, MSc, BCIDP, AAHIVP, of Midwestern University College of Pharmacy.

Despite the price, adherence to biologics for asthma is usually good because of the effectiveness, said J. Allen Meadows, MD, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

The patients must always come first, emphasized Milena Murray, PharmD, MSc, BCIDP, AAHIVP, associate professor at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, who practices at the Northwestern Medicine Infectious Disease Center in Chicago.

When the first biologic to treat asthma was approved by the FDA in 2003, it needed to be administered subcutaneously in the physician’s office. Now, there are 3 options available for at-home use: mepolizumab, benralizumab, and dupilumab.

Patients with psoriatic arthritis with enthesitis are more likely to have severe disease than patients without enthesitis, and they and their physicians are less likely to be satisfied with their treatments.

Despite the benefits of switching to a different mode of action in the second line, almost half of patients with rheumatoid arthritis were cycled to a second tumor necrosis factor inhibitor.

Abstracts presented at CHEST 2020 looked at improving diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with machine learning and the development of intensive care unit delirium in hospitalized patients with ARDS.

Patients with severe asthma are good candidates for biologics, but choosing which biologic requires a shared decision-making conversation, said J. Allen Meadows, MD, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Patient-provider communication after surgery is critical for patient safety. The growth of patient-provider communication technologies has created opportunities to study postoperative patient-initiated communication.

For-profit dialysis centers are spending heavily to defeat the measure.

Rebooting the immune system is an exciting approach, noted John Corboy, MD, professor of neurology, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, and co-director of the Rocky Mountain MS Center at Anschutz Medical Campus.

Among community patients living with heart failure, excellent and good patient-centered communication was associated with a reduced risk of death.

New data on the long-term efficacy and safety of dupilumab are very reassuring to patients with asthma, explained J. Allen Meadows, MD, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

As employers seek to gain a pulse of what the health care benefit cost trend will be for the coming year, the Business Group on Health will be monitoring several factors, including the impact of the pandemic, efficacy of virtual care, and deferral in care delivery.

Researchers found the nucleocapsid protein (NP) antigen of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), existed intracellularly in the ocular tissues of a patient who previously had COVID-19.

Blythe Adamson, PhD, MPH, of Flatiron Health, discusses study results she presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting on the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in end-of-life care

Treatment guidelines for comorbid depression and migraine are warranted to ensure optimal efficacy and avoid possible pitfalls in psychopharmacotherapy, according to study results.

Speakers at Patient-Centered Oncology Care® highlighted injustices in the US health care system, the risk of financial toxicity, and how providers can do a better job to ensure their patients achieve health equity, during a panel discussion.

In the real world, dupilumab has been as effective as the results in clinical trials, and patients are seeing low exacerbation rates, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations, explained Neal Jain, MD, FAAP, FAAAAI.

More biosimilars are hitting the US market, but marketplace dynamics have made it difficult to take advantage of these therapies.

Patients of South Asian origins who have psoriatic arthritis have a worse clinical phenotype and worse disease impact than patients of North European origins, according to research published in Rheumatology.

In individuals with type 2 diabetes with no previous insulin treatment, once-weekly injections of insulin icodec resulted in glucose-lowering efficacy and a safety profile similar to individuals who took once-daily insulin glargine U100.

Pediatric patients who had a referral from their pediatric rheumatologist and continued insurance coverage saw decreased delays when transitioning to an adult rheumatology clinic.

Patients who have oral corticosteroid–dependent asthma are recommended to use dupilumab, which reduces the use of oral steroids, explained Neal Jain, MD, FAAP, FAAAAI, of Arizona Allergy & Immunology Research.

Emerging data is showing that treatment within 6 months of presentation of multiple sclerosis (MS) is ideal, explained Patricia K. Coyle, MD, of Stony Brook University Neurosciences Institute.

As cancer care providers, aligning care with each patient's personal goals is a key point to be further discussed at this year's Patient-Centered Oncology Care® 2020 virtual conference.

The high rate of persistence found in the real-world study indicates dupilumab was well tolerated and patients were satisfied with its effectiveness.

We should look forward to a safe, effective vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but not expect it to be the ultimate panacea.

Obesity is common in the general population and research has shown it can increase the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), as well as increase diagnostic delays, explained Ruth Ann Marrie, MD, PhD, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at the University of Manitoba.

Nurses often get involved with patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) before their diagnosis and then work to educate them on the disease and its care, said Amy Perrin Ross, APN, MSN, CNRN, MSCN, Neuroscience Program Coordinator at Loyola University Medical Center.