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The patient sought care for a mass in her right buttock, but had no tonsillar symptoms.

David R. Penberthy, MD, MBA, 2022-2023 Association of Community Cancer Centers president, addresses technological advancements made during his presidency and how community oncology is working to ensure gains in health equity continue moving forward.

Regional Cancer Care Associates (RCCA) has entered into a strategic relationship with The US Oncology Network, effective April 1, 2023.

The Assessment of Burden Chronic Conditions (ABCC) tool adds validity when measuring burden of disease among people with chronic conditions, according to one study.

In part 2 of this 2-part series on health equity in the treatment of psoriasis, Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, and Bryan Buckley, DrPH, discuss how providers can address disparities in psoriasis care, specifically with race, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds in mind.

Data from the Finnish Pediatric Diabetes Register revealed a 16% increase in type 1 diabetes (T1D) incidence among Finnish children during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A research letter highlighted recent findings that iREACH educational intervention training may be helpful in preventing peanut allergies.

CMS finalizes plans to decrease overpayments to Medicare Advantage insurers; an experimental respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine is highly effective in infants when given to pregnant women; obesity may be influenced by different brain factors between men and women.

The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) 2023 Annual Meeting took place last month in New Orleans, Louisiana, and The American Journal of Managed Care® was there to cover the latest news—catch up on what you may have missed.

Symptoms of sleep disturbance are associated with an increased risk of stroke and might indicate higher individual risk or be representative of independent risk factors.

This study investigated potential benefits of a virtual education intervention for atopic dermatitis that targeted Hispanic Americans and Spanish-speaking populations.

Research showed that HIV incidence and mortality rates were highest among transgender women who were Black or Latinx or lived in the southern United States.

Rates of asthma diagnoses declined at the beginning at the pandemic compared with rates of new diagnoses in the previous 3 years, according to one study.

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to enfortumab vedotin-ejfv plus pembrolizumab for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who are not eligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy.

Patients who underwent sublobar resection and those who underwent more invasive lobectomy for early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) showed similar overall and disease-free survival outcomes in a recent study.

Johnson & Johnson designated over $8.9 billion to settle talcum powder lawsuits; a new report from the World Health Organization says that 1 in 6 adults globally are affected by infertility; a new study looks beyond the body mass index of pregnant mothers to identify risk factors for their children being obese.

A recent study found the mortality rate for patients hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to be 6.6%, with approximately 25% of hospitalized patients requiring admission to the intensive care unit.

A new study has found that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections were more frequent and severe compared with influenza A/B in older adults.

Paul G. Alexander, MD, MPH, executive vice president and chief health equity and transformation officer at RWJBarnabas Health, discusses key strategies for health systems working to identify and address health disparities.

Treatment with relugolix and concomitant therapies for prostate cancer showed similar safety and efficacy to relugolix alone in a recent study.

Banner|Aetna has partnered with Virta and their diabetes reversal program, which now has data on outcomes and patient populations served so far.

Utilization of telehealth increased by 7% nationally in the first month of 2023.

A ruling by District Judge Reed O’Connor on March 30 called the future of preventive care access into question.

The National Cancer Plan is being implemented as part of the Cancer Moonshot aims; inflation and higher spending are driving up monthly plan premiums under the Affordable Care Act; millions of people may lose Medicaid coverage after pandemic protections end.

The impaired reactivity may play a role in organ injury, the authors suggested, among patients who have immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP).

Data from the PANORAMA-HF and PARADIGM-HF trials support the recommendation for approval from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency.

The new research could help identify ways to preserve neuromuscular junctions.

Abdominal and general obesity were associated with adverse respiratory symptoms, with some independent factors identified in women, but not in men.