Mary Caffrey

What would a successor to the Oncology Care Model (OCM) look like? Community oncologists discuss at the Payer Exchange Summit sponsored by the Community Oncology Alliance.

Heading into 2019, the idea that oncology practices would fully embrace financial responsibility for clinical decisions still seemed far-fetched for many. And yet, when it was time to make the call, moving to 2-sided risk proved a “simple” decision, said Travis Brewer of Texas Oncology, who took part in a panel offering an update on the Oncology Care Model (OCM) at the start of the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) Payer Exchange Summit, which opened Monday in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia.

The idea that obesity is linked to mood disorders has been posited since at least 2004.

The advantage of empagliflozin, and the sodium glucose cotransporter 2 class generally, is that its unique mechanism expels excess glucose through the urine, thus offering the possibility of reducing glucose variability—eliminating the “roller coaster” effect that many with type 1 diabetes experience that can cause long-term microvascular damage.

A Colorado-based company, SonderMind, seeks to take on the financial risk associated with reimbursement for mental healthcare so that therapists will be more willing to see patients using their insurance coverage.

Results are based on the DECLARE-TIMI 58 cardiovascular outcomes trial, presented last year at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

The trial, led by a team from the University of Edinburgh, used the troponin blood test to detect heart attacks, but with separate thresholds for men and women.

The global blood shortage is unevenly distributed: Out of 195 countries examined in the study, 119 had unmet need totaling more than 102 million units, the equivalent of 1849 per 100,000 population worldwide.

Although results of other recent studies have noted the rise in the rate of obesity-related cancers among younger adults, this is the first study to also find a concurrent decrease in the rate of new cancer cases among patients 65 years and older.

Omada Health, a longtime leader in digital health coaching for diabetes prevention and type 2 diabetes (T2D) care, and Abbott, maker of the FreeStyle Libre, said the partnership will “create a new paradigm” in T2D management.

A medical affairs official with Janssen said physicians may not bring up the option of a long-acting injectable for fear of disrupting the doctor-patient relationship.

The authors say their findings align with other analyses showing the cost-effectiveness of sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors.

Previous work has linked psoriasis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, but this is one of the first studies to tie together the severity of the 2 conditions.

The findings have implications for survivorship care, as more patients are living longer due to the availability of immunotherapies.

Women who enter menopause before age 50 are substantially more likely to have a nonfatal cardiovascular event before they turn 60, and the risk grows the younger the women are when menstruation ends, according to a recent analysis.

More than 2 years after the FDA derailed the trajectory of its novel treatment system for type 2 diabetes (T2D), Intarcia Therapeutics today announced that regulators have accepted a resubmitted new drug application for the mini pump that delivers a continuous dose of exenatide.

A study last year pointed to empagliflozin as the best choice for patients who have type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

The mechanism studied affects a broad range of physiological responses and is now the focus of intense study by the pharmaceutical industry.

Diagnosis of hypertension was based on guidelines updated by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association in 2017.

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that will protect Medicare and bolster Medicare Advantage (MA) in response to Democrats' Medicare for All proposals.

The study was largely funded the National Institutes of Health, and results appeared in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

The new indication is based on results of the CREDENCE trial, which found that canagliflozin reduced the risk of renal failure or death by 30% in those that had both type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease.

Data on the link between elevated serum neurofilament light chain and diabetes was presented at the 35th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, held in Stockholm, Sweden.

A new concept for targeting insulin toward the liver could lead to people with diabetes needing less of it to control glycated hemoglobin (A1C) and avoid hypoglycemia.

The results of a study published last year from authors at Yale Diabetes Center suggest that rationing is more common than the healthcare system wants to admit. Senior author Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS, says the findings raise a whole new set of questions.

More than 70% of hospital data breaches include the theft of sensitive items like patients’ Social Security or credit card numbers, as well as birth dates, which could lead to identity theft or fraud, according to a new report.

Novo Nordisk officials believe the new therapy will fufill an unmet need for patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity who need a GLP-1 receptor agonist but do not wish to use an injectable drug.

Acute myeloid leukemia is the most common acute adult cancer diagnosed in the United States; 61,000 Americans are living with this disease and more than 10,000 will die of it this year.

Sessions and posters from the 35th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis discussed various ways to measure patient-reported outcomes in multiple sclerosis.

The leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to 3 private equity firms seeking information. The committee has already unanimously voted out the No Surprises Act to protect consumers.