Jaime Rosenberg

Three months following the 2018 midterm elections, a panel discussion at AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference, held February 4-5 in Washington, DC, outlined how much healthcare did, or didn’t, play a role in the elections, as well as what healthcare trends to expect in 2019.

A study presented at the AcademyHealth 2019 National Health Policy Conference, held February 4-5 in Washington, DC, found that the adoption of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act has been linked to lower rates of maternal mortality.

Following President Trump’s second State of the Union address, where he announced plans to end the HIV epidemic, HIV experts from across HHS outlined a comprehensive plan of action focusing on diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and response.

During a session at AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference held February 4-5 in Washington, DC, healthcare stakeholders discussed 3 innovations that are changing the way we think about healthcare: social determinants of health, digital health, and data.

Rural communities continue to face health challenges and disparities, with higher percentages of preventable deaths, higher rates of Medicare and Medicaid populations, and much fewer providers, according to a panel discussion at AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference, being held February 4-5 in Washington, DC.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar outlined efforts by Trump administration to tackle the drug rebate system during his keynote address at AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference.

In 2015, the Neulasta On-Body Injector (OBI) Onpro device was introduced as a less costly method of pegfilgrastim administration. While the device has been found to be safe in healthy volunteers and have pharmacokinetics similar to that of traditional pegfilgrastim, there have been limited data comparing the 2 methods.

When the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) released new cholesterol guidelines in 2013, replacing older guidelines and changing statin eligibility, more patients with HIV became recommended for statin therapy. However, many patients are still not recommended for or prescribed the treatment.

Among older patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma receiving myelosuppressive chemotherapy, use of primary prophylaxis with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) increased significantly over the past 20 years.

Reflecting on a year of breakthrough advancements in the treatment of rare, difficult to treat cancers, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has named “Progress in Treating Rare Cancers” as the Advance of the Year.

The FDA has approved sumatriptan nasal spray (Tosymra) for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in adults.

Being able to accurately measure HIV reservoirs that remain in the body even during viral suppression is the first step to being able to destroy these reservoirs and, potentially, cure the infection. Researchers say they've created a new technique that will allow them to do so.

Americans with primary care receive significantly more high-value care, slightly more low-value care, and report better healthcare experience.

UPMC Health Plan and AztraZeneca have announced their value-based agreement for ticagrelor (Brilinta), which will tie reimbursement to patient outcomes.

Genomic sequencing at birth has the potential to shift the healthcare system from reactive to preventive and save countless lives in the process, but healthcare systems aren’t ready for widespread implementation of these tests, according to a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

The approval marks the first non-chemotherapy combination regimen for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Examining the frequency of bloodstream infection in these patients, researchers have found that staphylococcus aureus is most prevalent, followed by Klebsiella and E. coli.

Men living with HIV are more likely to develop lung disease from long-term marijuana smoking compared with uninfected men.

Panelists at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, discussed the importance of addressing mental health, the role stigma plays, and next steps once the conversation opens up.

Among people with obesity, those with migraine have greater total healthcare utilization and expenses compared with those without migraine.

According to a new study, requiring drug price disclosures in television ads could significantly influence consumer thinking and behavior, especially for expensive drugs.

Seeking to generate data for the development and validation of clinical decision rules in pediatric febrile neutropenia (FN), researchers used 2 decades of data on FN episodes in pediatric patients.

Between 2015 and 2017, drug spending increased by nearly 20% as drug shortages also increased, resulting in hospitals cutting staff and warning that patient safety is at risk.

The organization's list of 10 health challenges include both environmental and medical challenges they say demand attention from the World Health Organization (WHO) and health partners in 2019.

Higher tumor mutational burden is associated with improved overall survival in patients with stage IV or metastatic disease being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

A single measurement of procalcitonin (PCT) is comparable to Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) score for predicting serious medical complications in patients with cancer with febrile neutropenia.

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More than 2 weeks of treatment with cefepime administered by intravenous (IV) push significantly increases the risk of cefepime-induced neutropenia.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reviewed clinical trials and cohort studies validating the concept that people living with HIV who have achieved viral suppression can not sexually transmit HIV.

Patients with cancer who have comorbidities are less likely to have clinical trial discussions, be offered a clinical trial, and participate in a clinical trial, according to a new study.