Pearl Steinzor

Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, PhD, MPH, hematology and medical oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses methods for identifying patients with indolent systemic mastocyctosis (ISM) using health claims data.

It is important to study the safety of targeted therapies in populations at increased risk of skin cancer, according to the researchers.

Researchers have identified a surge in breast cancer rates among young women and racial disparities across age groups.

Risankizumab is an effective treatment option for patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), according to a recent meta-analysis.

These modifiable environmental factors were independently associated with asthma severity, according to one study.

Miriam J. Atkins, MD, FACP, president of the Community Oncology Alliance, discusses the impact of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) on health care costs and offers potential ways to remedy certain CMS decisions that negatively affect oncologists and their patients.

Continuous improvement was observed across the different domains of minimal disease activity criteria with guselkumab.

A Mendelian randomization analysis supported an increasing causal relationship between asthma and lung cancer risk, particularly in smokers and lung squamous cell carcinoma.

The increased risk is likely due to the underlying cancer disease and adjuvant treatments, researchers find.

Bevey Miner, executive vice president of health care strategy and policy, Consensus Cloud Solutions, discusses the complex landscape of proposed health care rules, and the potential impact of CMS' Advancing Interoperability and Prior Authorizations Rule.

Mike Brown, vice president of managed services at Cardinal Health, discusses Cardinal Health's goals to to leverage technology, while reducing costs to the health care system.

This association remained significant even after controlling for cigarette use and demographic characteristics.

Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, PhD, MPH, hematology and medical oncology, Cleveland Clinic, suggests that some patients with indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) may be progressing at a faster rate than expected, and will need to be monitored and started on appropriate therapies.

Bevey Miner, executive vice president of health care strategy and policy, Consensus Cloud Solutions, discusses the historic progression of health information technology and the role interoperability plays in secure exchanging of patient data.

Mike Brown, vice president of managed services at Cardinal Health, discusses how remote pharmacy services are revolutionizing patient care by improving accessibility and medication safety.

Dupilumab shows long-term efficacy across yearly seasons in patients with type 2 inflammatory asthma.

Momelotinib was given category 2A and 2B status for patients with high- and low-risk myelofibrosis (MF) and MF with anemia. However, ruxolitinib retains a higher category of recommendation as a treatment for patients with MF.

A recent cohort study finds that prenatal opioid exposure is associated with increased risk of certain immune-related conditions, including asthma.

People of color with scalp psoriasis experienced significant improvement in scalp itch and patient-reported health-related quality-of-life outcomes.

David Adamson, MD, emphasizes the need for continuous education and building relationships with colleagues to navigate the complexities of reproductive rights and evolving care standards.

Molly Mendenhall, BSN, RN, director of quality and compliance at Oncology Hematology Care, Inc (OHC), discussed a 1-year quality improvement project implemented by OHC to standardize comprehensive biomarker testing in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Asthma can be predicted using non-biological measurements from the age of 3 years, according to one study.

Mike Brown, vice president of managed services at Cardinal Health, shares how drug cost control software has improved monitoring efficiency and reduced drug spending.

Physicians should be vigilant when managing patients with psoriasis and concurrent metabolic disorders, according to a new study.

An artificial intelligence (AI)-aided stethoscope provides reliable information on asthma exacerbations in children, especially those under 5 years, a study suggests.

Brian Mullen, PhD, head of innovation and product at The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, discusses how providing second opinions has improved patient and provider experiences in health care.

Bevey Miner, executive vice president of health care strategy and policy, Consensus Cloud Solutions, shares how extraction artificial intelligence is helping train machine learning models to recognize and extract information from documents, providing structured data with confidence scores.

Michael Gieske, MD, director of lung cancer screening at St. Elizabeth Health Care, speaks to the success of the Rural Appalachian Lung Cancer Screening Initiative, along with challenges to implementing increased lung cancer screening.

These findings support the safe use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) regarding the risk of pneumonia among children with asthma, according to one study.

Health insurance coverage is a strong determinant of cancer care access and survival, and the observed variations are despite a significant increase in coverage under the Affordable Care Act.