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Direct inpatient and outpatient costs are significantly higher for patients with untreated spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) compared with matched controls.

Researchers found that thousands of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) did not follow the traditional trajectory associated with the disease, suggesting a possible incorrect diagnosis.

Individuals at high risk of contracting HIV and with commercial health insurance adhered to their pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) regimens more than twice as long as persons covered by Medicaid.

Findings suggest that including slowly repeated evoked pain (SREP) in quantitative sensory testing protocols may enhance assessments of altered pain modulation in different pain conditions.

Through heightened awareness and education on skin disorders in Parkinson disease (PD), neurologists and dermatologists can better recognize PD-related manifestations that are present on the skin and direct patients to the optimal source of care for these issues.

States lift some COVID-19 restrictions despite warnings from top health officials; President Biden says all American adults should be able to receive a vaccine by the end of May; report highlights decline in young, middle age adult life expectancy.

The specialization program will teach fundamentals and offer real-world examples of value-based care through an online program.

Triple oral combination therapy with macitentan, riociguat, and selexipag may be a promising strategy to treat patients with low/intermediate-risk pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), and possibly even patients with high-risk PAH.

An irregular sleeping schedule is associated with a greater risk of depression in the long term, with consequences similar to results seen among persons who sleep fewer hours overall or stay up late most nights.

Timing of bout-related moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is associated with cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiovascular risk among men with type 2 diabetes (T2D), independent of bout-related MVPA volume and intensity, according to research published in Diabetes Care.

The disorder known as molybdenum cofactor deficiency (MoCD) Type A presents shortly after birth, often with severe encephalopathy and intractable seizures.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Sheri Winsper, the senior vice president for quality measurement at the National Quality Forum, to discuss how the forum plans to devise national telehealth quality metrics.

Merck and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) partner to produce J&J's COVID-19 vaccine; Anthony Fauci, MD, warns against shifting to a single-dose strategy for approved 2-shot vaccines; Medtronic recalls its HVAD Pump Implant Kits.

Research published in JAMA Ophthalmology supports the continued implementation of preschool-based vision screening programs, as nearly 3 of 4 preschool students consistently wore their glasses at school during the first year of use.

Based on the findings, researchers suggest it may be beneficial to advise patients with chronic migraine and medication overuse headache (MOH) to reduce cannabis use to effectively treat MOH.

Most orphan drug spending does not actually go to patients with rare diseases, a new study shows.

Collaboration enabled ChristianaCare to significantly grow its population of patients with well-controlled disease, thanks to a diabetes control roadmap that ensured both physical and emotional health needs were met through interprofessional partnerships.

The first batch of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine will be shipped today to states and pharmacies nationwide; Anthony Fauci, MD, says elementary school-aged children very likely to able to be vaccinated by first quarter 2022; special clinics nationwide try to treat COVID-19 survivors who continue to experience long-term symptoms.

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.

Vamshi Rao, MD, attending physician of Neurology at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, discusses the future of combination therapies in the spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) space.

Jeffrey Hogan, Northeast regional manager of the Rogers Benefit Group and member of the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Business Group on Health, discussed how his organization helped providers navigate some of the challenges posed by the pandemic.

The FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the distribution of the nation's third COVID-19 vaccine, and on Sunday, a CDC panel will meet to decide on recommendations to put it into practice.

From 1999 to 2015, permanent disability claims for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) spiked during periods of economic recessions, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic may create a similar effect in the near future.

Updates on Waldenström macroglobulinemia treatment formed by an international consensus panel were recently finalized and published in The Lancet Haematology.

The substitution of telemedicine for many in-person HIV services during the COVID-19 pandemic has produced mixed results, with persons living with HIV increasingly lost to follow-up despite favorable views of this method of care delivery.

While diagnostic algorithms have evolved in the last decade, there remains an urgent need for innovative therapeutic options to treat systemic sclerosis with pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Researchers identified variants of 9 genes that increase the risk of developing the rare disease.

A comparison of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) randomized to 1 of 2 physical activities did not show a significant increase in peak oxygen consumption (VO2) vs guideline-based physical activity.