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Vamshi Rao, MD, attending physician of Neurology at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, discusses the safety and efficacy of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treatments.

In addition to coronavirus disease 2019, several other factors will play a major role in health care policy reform for federal and state-level health officials this year, including the transition to value-based care and containment of high health care costs.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, FACP, previews some of the topics of discussion for his talk with former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the upcoming 2021 Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference.

Nearly 45% of children who underwent diagnostic polysomnography (PSG) for obstructive sleep-disordered breathing were found to have normal sleep studies, warranting greater consideration of PSG to manage adverse sleep symptoms in children and potentially prevent unnecessary surgery.

A recent study found that the proportion of patients in the Netherlands with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are being assessed for cardiovascular (CV) risk does not align with Dutch guideline recommendations.

Robert K. Massie Jr, PhD, MA, of the Society for Progress, was born with severe factor VIII hemophilia in August 1956. He contracted HIV in 1978 and later hepatitis C, both from contaminated blood products.

Planning and education can help create systemwide change in order to implement greater use of advance care planning and palliative care for those with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

Fungi within the gut microbiome were not found to be a contributing factor to the initiation and progression of Parkinson disease, contrary to prior findings.

The Biden administration purchases an additional 200 million coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine doses; the president plans to revoke Medicaid work requirements; companies seek billion-dollar tax deductions in opioid crisis settlement.

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This week, the top managed care news included President Biden’s DOJ reversing course in case seeking to overturn the Affordable Care Act; once-weekly semaglutide and lifestyle changes slashed body weight by 15%; updates on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

Carfilzomib-dexamethasone improved renal overall and complete response in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) compared with a regimen of bortezomib-dexamethasone in a real-world study.

A temporary switch from oral to intravenous (IV) selexipag is safe and well tolerated in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

Compared with patients with Parkinson disease, rheumatoid arthritis, or epilepsy, those with multiple sclerosis exhibited higher rates of medication adherence throughout the first year of treatment.

A comparison of 2 time periods shows that following an initial decline, hospital admissions for primary management of heart failure rose between 2014 and 2017.

Abatacept was shown to have a 9% increase in likelihood of achieving remission compared with conventional therapy for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which the researchers contribute to the treatment’s lower discontinuation rates.

CDC updates its guidance to reflect best mask-wearing practices; study highlights racial disparities in nursing home coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths; North Dakota to consider mandatory mental health studies in schools.

The prevalence of pulmonary embolism in certain hospitalized patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be lower than previous research suggests, according to a recent study.

Humana and IBM Watson Health collaboration to streamline access to accurate information on benefits and health care costs for Humana employer group members, agents, and employers.

An investigation of 24 women from the United Kingdom’s PROTECTOR trial has revealed that their concerns toward cancer risk and menopause affect their choice of surgery as treatment for ovarian cancer.

Whereas patient care was often bogged down in bureaucracy when he was younger, Robert K. Massie Jr, PhD, MA, of the Society for Progress, notes that hospitals and caregivers are increasingly paying attention to what makes sense for patient care.

In the placebo-controlled trial, 86% of participants who received semaglutide attained at least a 5% reduction in total body weight.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), under a new administration, on Wednesday dropped its previous position that the now-defunct tax provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) cannot be severed from the rest of the law, thus making the entire health law unconstitutional.

Compared with pollen season in 1990, today's pollen season is starting earlier and lasting longer, largely because of human-caused climate change, researchers said.

The FDA approved a prescription tongue muscle stimulation device that claims to reduce mild sleep apnea and snoring in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Using optical coherence tomography, researchers found that length of disorganization of retinal inner layer, length of external ellipsoid zone disruption, and foveal avascular zone circularity were associated with visual impairment in treatment-naïve patients with diabetes.

Experts outlined the impact value-based insurance design (VBID) has had on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic response and future potential applications of the model.