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When the mercury outside ascends too high early in pregnancy, the risk of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia may rise as well; results also show greater impacts on Latino populations.

An innovative CRISPR-Cas12f-based activator system may hold significant potential in the future of gene therapy and biological research, suggest researchers of a new study.

Despite numerous trials, breast cancer immunotherapies have had a modest clinical impact, with only 2 approved drugs, highlighting inefficiencies in the clinical trial system.

Patients with alopecia areata (AA) face significant out-of-pocket costs for treatments, despite many having limited efficacy.

A recent study showed that the Myasthenia Gravis (MG) Symptoms PRO scales viably measure core symptoms of the disease.

This week, the Center on Health Equity & Access delved into the state of equity as it relates to national spending, ovarian cancer care, health technology, insurance coverage, and postpartum depression.

The Alliance AO91902 trial investigated whether adding immunotherapy to chemotherapy would improve outcomes for patients with advanced angiosarcoma.

The authors of the new meta-analysis aimed to provide an update on the association between ankylosing spondylitis and cancer incidence.

Doug Fulling, MA, and Andrew Cournoyer of Precision AQ discussed what payers can contribute to discussions around drug pricing during clinical development.

The ending of the 2023 film “Barbie,” where she sees a gynecologist, has increased online search interest in gynecology; yesterday marked 34 years of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA); Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration over Title X, a federal contraception program that provides teens birth control without parental consent.

The FDA has approved deuruxolitinib, an oral medication developed by Sun Pharma, as the first-line treatment for adults with moderate to severe alopecia areata.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) models have potential to help clinicians assess risk in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to inform disease management, a new study found.

The gene therapy giroctocogene fitelparvovec demonstrated superiority compared with the standard of care, routine prophylaxis, in hemophilia A treatment.

Legal and policy experts on a KFF webinar explained how the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the Chevron precedent will impact legislators, agencies, and courts as they interpret and enforce policies in the health care realm.

These 48-week data from ARTISTRY-1 build on 24-week results previously presented and show enduring efficacy of bictegravir plus lenacapavir.

In part 2 of our interview, Diane Mahoney, PhD, DNP, FNP-BC, WHNP-BC, APRN, advocates for a multidisciplinary, community-centered approach to reduce ovarian cancer care disparities and stresses the need for ongoing exploration of social, biological, and environmental factors affecting health outcomes.

Interventions promoting adherence to the Mediterranean diet were associated with cardiometabolic biomarkers in children and adolescents, according to one study.

Patients with unresectable stage III non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who received atezolizumab before and after chemoradiation therapy (CRT) had both safe and effective results.

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a group of Republican-led states do not have legal standing to impose restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone; the US infant mortality rate increased by 3% in 2022; a twice-yearly injection could prevent 100% of HIV infections.

Despite a significant increase in women with unilateral breast cancer who received a bilateral mastectomy, this study found no survival benefit compared with other treatment options. Although removing the unaffected breast reduces the risk of developing cancer in the other breast, results did not show decreased risk of death from breast cancer.

This new analysis examined the investigational chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy GC012F among patients with newly diagnosed and high-risk multiple myeloma (MM).

The phase 3, international, open-label, single-group XTEND-Kids study concluded that children with severe hemophilia A younger than 12 years benefited from treatment with efanesoctocog alfa prophylaxis.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with Jason Spangler, MD, MPH, CEO of the Center for Innovation and Value Research on equity challenges within health technology assessment.

A late-breaking abstract focused on a head-to-head comparison between dolutegravir/lamivudine (DTG/3TC) and bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir (BIC/FTC/TAF) in the treatment of HIV.

For Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, the Employee Benefits Security Agency (EBSA) in the US Department of Labor highlights the critical need to address mental health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.

Patients diagnoesd with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease may have a higher risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) or colorectal adenoma.

While both drugs slowed down lung function decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), they were also linked to more deaths and increased incidence of acute exacerbation of IPF in real-world settings.