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Addressing the social health needs of those ill with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a challenge for providers and health care systems. On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Bechara Choucair, MD, senior vice president and chief health officer for Kaiser Permanente, who discusses the organization's guide that walks clinicians through considerations to keep in mind when screening patients in order to improve health outcomes as well as reduce community transmission.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted many mental health services for children; a study on the long-term effects of COVID-19 will soon kick off; a $13-billion deal has been struck for UnitedHealth to buy Change Healthcare.

Pain is a subjective response with multiple features and components, said Frank Porreca, PhD, professor of pharmacology and anesthesiology at the University of Arizona and a member of the Department of Collaborative Research at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Despite limited resources to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, collaborative efforts among the government, health plans, and providers in Puerto Rico exemplify how care can be better optimized in communities in the United States impacted by disparities in health care services.

Decades ago, companies refused to heat-treat their blood products, which resulted in pooled plasma, among others, enabling many viruses to be transmitted, noted Robert K. Massie Jr, PhD, MA, of the Society for Progress.

In recent clinical practice guidelines issued by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), authors established recommendations for the use of behavioral and psychological treatments for chronic insomnia disorder in adults.

In an effort to detect sea fan neovascularization from ultra-widefield color fundus photographs from patients with sickle cell hemoglobinopathy, researchers developed an automated system with high sensitivity and specificity, which holds potential to improve screening for vision-threatening proliferative sickle cell retinopathy.

The FDA warns against making any changes to the authorized dosing schedules of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines; joint health care venture, Haven, dissolves; Moderna announced it will increase production of its vaccine by 100 million doses for 2021.

The emotional, functional and physical effects of vertigo on patients with vestibular migraine were shown to be more significant compared with the experiences of patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) in a recent study.

Patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson disease (PD) who carried mutations in the Parkin gene were found to exhibit worse quality of life, longer disease duration, and an earlier age at disease onset than those with PD who did not carry the mutation.

Results from a cross-sectional study show individuals with Parkinson disease exhibited decreased retinal vessel and perfusion density, as well as choroidal structural changes compared with age- and sex-matched controls.

A reduction in glycated hemoglobin (A1C) may result in improved perinatal and maternal outcomes among women with prepregnancy diabetes, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Discussions between the FDA and Operation Warp Speed officials have mentioned the implementation of half-dose coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine regimens; the United Kingdom becomes the first country to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine; the outlook for mental health in 2021.

A new study from Sweden cautions against routine discontinuation of renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell exhaustion likely stems from chemotherapy prior to transplant, noted Michael R. Green, PhD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) dominated 2020. This is a look back at how the pandemic evolved and progressed through the year, which closed with the arrival of vaccines, but also continued challenges.

A “dose-response” relationship may exist between migraine and patent foramen ovale (PFO), according to a review published in Frontiers in Neurology.

Through neoadjuvant chemotherapy we can downstage tumors, assess drug efficacy, and better segregate women by prognosis status for adjuvant treatment, explained Alexey Aleshin, MD, senior medical director of Oncology at biotech giant Natera.

In an unexpected finding, patients with psoriasis showed similar hand impairment to patients with psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Among children who underwent unilateral cataract removal in infancy, risk of glaucoma-related adverse events continues to increase with longer follow-up and is not associated with primary intraocular lens (IOL) implementation, according to research published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Several economic benefits stem from engaging in care soon after HIV transmission and maintaining viral load suppression, noted Milena Murray, PharmD, MSc, BCIDP, AAHIVP, associate professor, Midwestern University College of Pharmacy.

Slowing progression of chronic kidney disease can help mitigate adverse outcomes in minority populations, said Guofen Yan, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

This approach allows clinicians to keep using existing prediction models and incorporate chronic kidney disease (CKD) data seamlessly to calibrate patients' risks, said Kunihiro Matsushita, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University.

Using advanced machine learning models, researchers in China were able to accurately predict incidence of gestational diabetes among pregnant women during their first trimester.

A small pilot study could point the way to a new option for patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) who experience cytokine release syndrome (CRS) that cannot be cured with the standard therapy.

In 2020, the top 5 most-watched interviews published on AJMC.com addressed a myriad of different issues within breast cancer, cardiology, and HIV, with additional perspectives on the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

One guideline focuses on managing severe asthma and the other begins with recommendations for mild intermittent asthma before increasing based on disease severity, noted Megan Althoff, MD, PhD, University of Colorado.