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CVS Health Corp. is nearing a $10.5 billion deal to take on Oak Street Health Inc.; an innovative cystic fibrosis drug that can lengthen life expectancy for patients is blocked by high costs and unavailability in low-income countries; New York City will end the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers.

The investigational therapy promises a new way to target HER2 while still using chemotherapy combinations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) improved detection of actionable lung nodules without leading to higher rates of false positives, the study found.

Drug costs, particularly for immunotherapies, contributed to the rising cost of care during the last 6 months of life for a fee-for-service Medicare beneficiary, according to a recent study.

Amy Crawford-Faucher, MD, vice chair of the Primary Care Institute and Department of Family Medicine at Allegheny Health Network, discussed the potential of a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine in children, as well as ongoing efforts to get childhood vaccination rates back on track.

Data from 2 prospective studies showed correlations between impaired patient health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and disease severity, as well as correlations between the health of caregivers and their HRQOL and caregiver burden.

Even patients with the mildest symptoms of myasthenia gravis said they experienced negative quality-of-life (QOL) effects from the disease.

Limited affordability and availability make consulting with a gynecologist and receiving surgery for ovarian cancer difficult for many minority women.

Adjusted analyses showed vitamin D reduced diabetes risk by 15%, with a 3-year absolute risk reduction of 3.3%.

The modified Atkins diet exhibited superior tolerability and effectiveness in reducing seizure frequency compared with other dietary therapies in the management of childhood drug-resistant epilepsy.

Telemonitoring may help improve continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy adherence for patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA), while motivational enhancement therapy (MET) most significantly impacted long-term adherence, according to a recent study.

Such cases of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) are rare, but they can be treated with the typical therapies for EoE.

Disparities in access to pediatric ophthalmological care is associated with lower socioeconomic status.

A pediatric shot for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) may not be covered as a free routine vaccine; hospitals fail to comply with payment transparency rules; the fate of abortion pills is in the hands of conservative judges

The long time to diagnosis is consistent with data pointing to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) often being misdiagnosed as asthma, said the researchers, adding that the findings from their retrospective study provide valuable insight into where the diagnostic pathway lags.

Although allogenic stem cell transplant is increasingly used to treat multiple myeloma (MM) and other hematological conditions, there have been mixed efficacy results in the context of MM.

The latest updates in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cover recommendations for diagnostics, staging, when to use biomarker testing, sequencing of therapeutic options, and the addition of new treatments.

Virtual care not only means saved time and costs for employees, but improvements to employers' bottom lines, through more proactive management of health concerns, notes UCM Digital Health CEO and co-founder Keith Algozzine.

In this column, a health insurance executive discusses 2 ways to address rising inflation, including moving past the traditional fee-for-service payment model.

With greater attention being paid to the heterogenous patient population, researchers questioned whether this has resulted in a more diverse group of patients included in Parkinson disease (PD) studies in the Netherlands.

Vaccination was shown to lower risk of developing severe COVID-19 in both variants, with the largest difference in risk observed in patients aged 40 to 59 years.

A novel test developed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was able to detect and characterize even microscopic amounts of prostate cancers and could potentially help individualize treatment in the clinical setting.

A study attempted to see how symptoms affect quality of life after adjusting for confounding factors.

Jeremy Abramson, MD, director of the Jon and Jo Ann Hagler Center for Lymphoma at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, shared his take on the potential benefits of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in earlier lines of treatment.

Gregory Vidal, MD, PhD, director of Clinical Research at West Cancer Center & Research Institute, spoke about community-level discussions within diversity, equity, and inclusion to be addressed at the 8th Annual West Oncology Conference.

Tochi M. Okwuosa, DO, cardiologist and director of cardio-oncology at Rush University Medical, discusses the multidisciplinary process that underlies caring for patients with cancer who may develop heart damage.

Five leading academic cancer centers are assessing the feasibility of implementing the Health Equity Report Card pilot project as a tool that can both meaningfully and feasibly measure and report on equitable care practices.

Sharon Gill, MBA, chief visionary officer, Total Health, reviewed the agenda and key topics to be presented at the West Oncology Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, which takes place February 4-5, 2023.

Having models like these that produce more plausible results are crucial for decision-making in an era of targeted treatments that often come with immature data, argued researchers of their findings for minimal residual disease (MRD) in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM).

The bill could have saved CMS about $26.5 billion had it been in place from 2018-2020, the study showed.