Here are the top 5 articles for the month of December.
Hi, I'm Jaime Rosenberg for The American Journal of Managed Care®. Here are the top 5 articles for the month of December.
Number 5: Competing breast cancer tests vied for attention from clinicians and payers at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Number 4: While the Oncology Care Model is likely not a sustainable model for oncology care, it will probably inform what structure comes next, according to Michael Kolodziej, MD, vice president and chief innovation officer, ADVI Health.
Number 3: A new study is adding to the debate of statin use to prevent cardiovascular disease, arguing that the benefits don't outweigh the harms.
Number 2: A federal judge in Texas ruled that the Affordable Care Act's individual mandata is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law must also fall.
Number 1: New reports from the CDC highlight troubling increasing trends in suicides and drug overdose rates as life expectancy in the United States declined for the second year in a row.
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Challenges in developing next-generation cancer therapies persist; research indicates widespread utilization and hurdles in affordability and access to glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications; legislation seeks to legalize therapeutic use of psychedelics in California.
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