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Monthly parainfluenza virus incidence rates were nearly 6 times higher in September 2021 vs the second highest reported monthly incidence rates among children 4 years and younger in Finland in the last decade, following lifting of COVID-19–related restrictions.

An online survey of migraineurs in Germany aimed to evaluate their most pressing unmet needs, with data collected on socioeconomic background, medical care experience, acute medication use, and migraine prophylaxis use and experience.

A comparison of type 2 biologics indicated for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps identified dupilumab as the most effective drug in decreasing nasal polyp score and nasal congestion severity, whereas benralizumab was least effective.

There is evidence that people with HIV may have increased risk of cardiovascular disease and researchers are still trying to understand why, said Jorge Plutzky, MD, director of the Vascular Disease Prevention Program and director of Preventive Cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Robert Sidbury, MD, MPH, chief, Division of Dermatology, Seattle Children's Hospital, spoke on considerations for dermatologists in seeking payer coverage of novel, expensive therapies for atopic dermatitis.

Lower risk of discontinuation was found with ustekinumab vs the biologics adalimumab, secukinumab, and ixekizumab, in the treatment of patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.

The annual spring meeting of AMCP 2022 will include keynote sessions on health care and marketplace trends and the specialty pharmaceutical pipeline, with a featured preconference session on bias in health care.

Patients switched from the originator product maintained their clinical outcomes and remissions status while biologic-naïve patients recorded positive responses and remission outcomes after initiating infliximab-dyyb.

Sublingual immunotherapy with Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus extract was associated with significant improvements in disease severity among patients with atopic dermatitis sensitized to the house dust mite.

This new study from Germany evaluated the use of and satisfaction with continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) since health insurance companies in the country began reimbursement of the technology in 2016 for persons with insulin-dependent diabetes.

At the 2022 Community Oncology Conference, Elizabeth Spurlock, MA, PHR, director, Human Resources Business Partner, Texas Oncology, discussed the prevalence of burnout among physicians, staff, and administrators, and several strategies to reduce risk and support the health care workforce.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetes were associated with a higher risk of neurocognitive decline, but kidney disease stage did not appear to affect risk.

The special enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage has opened to low-income Americans; the FDA approves the first drug for a rare genetic epilepsy disorder; the National Institutes of Health to launch biomarker testing program for pediatric tumors.

Taiwanese patients with psoriasis were found to be at greater risk of developing gout; nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use was shown to decrease such risk.

A provisional clinical opinion from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommends that patients with advanced cancer with specific genomic alterations undergo genomic sequencing.

Emerging research on therapeutics and practical approaches to managing a myriad of dermatological conditions, as well as a growing focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion will be explored at the 2022 American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Annual Meeting, which will take place March 25-29, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Teprotumumab has shown great efficacy in treating thyroid eye disease in both clinical trials and real-world settings, but more data are needed on adverse events, said Shoaib Ugradar, MD, UCLA Stein Eye Center Santa Monica.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Lori Timmins, PhD, and Eugene Rich, MD, discuss the findings of their interim analysis of data from the first 3 years of the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Initiative, a large-scale effort of primary care redesign meant to improve care fragmentation among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

This new investigation compared outcomes among pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) before and after COVID-19 restrictions were imposed in Dallas County on March 15, 2020.

Compared with placebo, dupilumab treatment resulted in statistically significant and meaningful symptom improvements in adults and adolescents with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), according to abstracts presenting findings from the 3-part LIBERTY-EoE-TREET study.

Quality measures are the lifeblood of practice transformation, but learning which ones make a difference—and how to use them to drive change—is as much an art as a science, according to 3 oncology care leaders who discussed the topic Friday at the 2022 Community Oncology Conference, presented by the Community Oncology Alliance.

During a panel at the Community Oncology Alliance’s Community Oncology Conference, speakers discuss practice-level efforts to reduce cancer care disparities.

As a result of being less likely than men to receive lifesaving treatment when experiencing cardiogenic shock, women were significantly less likely to survive in the short and long term.

Jim Schwartz, RPh, corporate pharmacy manager, Texas Oncology, discussed pharmacy challenges regarding equitable care and distribution of specialty drugs in the community oncology setting.

Public financial statements from 9 dermatology groups backed by private equity (PE) were analyzed by the researchers, who described a significant decrease in debt valuations of these groups both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sunil Verma, MD, senior vice president and global head of oncology, medical, at AstraZeneca, talks about advancements in standards of care for uncommon cancers, including cholangiocarcinoma.

Cases of Clostridioides difficile (C diff) have increasingly been reported outside of typical settings, and a survey of general practitioners in France found that many cases can be managed without hospitalization.

Michael Diaz, MD, president and managing physician, Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, speaks on takeaways from his discussions on site of care and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) at the 2022 Community Oncology Conference.

The study called for increased education, productive health care professional dialogue, and shared decision-making in the management of patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Along with common symptoms of itch and pain, patients with atopic dermatitis experience significant work productivity and attention issues that affect overall quality of life, said Robert Sidbury, MD, MPH, chief, Division of Dermatology, Seattle Children's Hospital.