Immunoâ€Oncology Versus Precision Medicine: Where Is Cancer Care Headed?
February 20th 2017At the 5th annual Patient-Centered Oncology Care® meeting, hosted by The American Journal of Managed Care®, experts discussed the contradiction presented by immuno-oncology agents in the world of precision medicine.
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Pharma—PBM War on Drug Prices Picks Up Steam
February 17th 2017An e-mail, from Mark Merritt, president and CEO of the trade group Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, to the organization’s board, lays out a plan to develop an aggressive campaign to convince the new administration that the fault rests with pharmaceutical manufacturers.
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Sustained Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Could Influence Standard of Care
February 14th 2017A new study to be presented at the 2017 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium has found that some patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma had a durable response after treatment discontinuation.
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Michigan Study Finds Obesity Lowers Hospice Use Among Seniors
February 8th 2017A long-term health study has found that seniors with a higher body mass index were less likely to make use of hospice care. Additionally, obese seniors spent significantly fewer days in hospice care than their nonobese counterparts.
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PMC Report Proposes Strategies for Clinical Integration of Personalized Medicine
February 7th 2017The Health Care Working Group of the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) has published a new report that provides a framework for the successful integration of personalized medicine in the clinic.
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5 Key Highlights From the AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference
February 3rd 2017The National Health Policy Conference hosted by AcademyHealth, January 30-31, 2017, in Washington DC, delivered on its promise of insightful discussions on the current and future trends within healthcare.
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Senator Cassidy Presents Competing Options to Replace the ACA
February 2nd 2017At the AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference in Washington DC, Senator Bill Cassidy spoke about the potential replacement of the Affordable Care Act and the options that the Republican administration is considering for the replacement.
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First Trial With Universal CAR-T Treatment in Pediatric Leukemia Reports Success
January 26th 2017“Off-the-shelf” chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, also known as universal donor cells, were used in 2 young infants with relapsed, refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia resulted in molecular remission in 28 days in both infants.
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Innovative Approach to Precision Trial Design: NCI-MATCH and Beat AML
January 25th 2017At the 58th annual meeting of the 58th American Society of Hematology, representatives from 2 national clinical trials, Beat AML and NCI-MATCH, detailed how they were incorporating genomic profiling to assign patients to different treatment arms.
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Healthcare Utilization and Costs Associated With the Treatment of Relapsed/Refractory MM
January 25th 2017A poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Society of Hematology compared the utilization patterns and associated costs for recently approved and older drugs in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma in the United States.
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JAMA Study Discovers Regional Trends in Cancer-Related Mortality
January 25th 2017An analysis of cancer death records across the country, by researchers at the University of Washington, has identified clusters of counties that had a particularly high rate of mortality depending on the cancer type.
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