Health Care Predictions For A New Year

The session follows the American Association for Cancer Research's (AACR) prior call to action against executive orders that would harm the National Institutes of Health.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Brady Post, PhD, lead author of a study published in the April 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, challenges the claim that hospital-employed physicians serve a more complex patient mix.

New research explores the complex relationship between female infertility and gynecological cancers, revealing minimal links and emphasizing the need for further studies.

Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.

Adding venetoclax to decitabine-cedazuridine significantly enhanced response rates in patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

Tocilizumab has emerged as a key treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, showing efficacy, safety, and potential cardiovascular benefits in recent studies.