Clinical

Myasthenia gravis is becoming increasingly common around the world, with a resulting disease burden beset by high health care resource utilization, decreased quality of life, and worsened mental health.

Perfluorohexyloctane ophthalmic solution had high treatment satisfaction in those who took it for dry eye.

Adolescents who are treatment-naive had promising results when using dolutegravir/lamivudine as antiretroviral therapy over 48 weeks.

These findings support the claim that Medicare Advantage (MA) payments may be driven more by diagnosis and coding practices rather than differences in disease burden between MA and fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare beneficiaries.

Higher telemedicine adoption among Medicare beneficiaries was associated with a slight increase in total visits but a reduction in certain low-value tests and related spending.

On February 13, Allogene Therapeutics published new long-term follow-up data on cemacabtagene ansegedleucel, showing the investigative allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy produced durable responses in relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Panelists discuss how health care professionals have varying confidence in biosimilars, driven by concerns about efficacy, safety, and interchangeability. Increased education, real-world evidence, professional engagement, transparent regulations, and comprehensive outcome data can help build trust in these alternative biologic treatments.

Panelists discuss how biosimilars are gaining traction through targeted education, cost-effectiveness analysis, and rigorous clinical validation, with providers increasingly integrating these alternatives by addressing knowledge barriers and demonstrating comparable therapeutic performance.

Although her recent study acknowledges potential differences between White and non-White patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), Rebecca Haberman, MD, NYU Langone Health, emphasizes the need for further research to understand what these differences are and why they occur.

Anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody (AChR-Ab) titers and the AChR-Ab rates of change correlated with myasthenia gravis disease severity scores in a recent study.

Among hospitalized patients with traumatic brain injury, Medicaid fee-for-service was associated with longer hospital stays than private insurance and Medicaid managed care organizations.

Panelist discusses how HS Centers of Excellence integrating multidisciplinary care, personalized treatments, comprehensive tracking, and holistic patient support strategies can significantly improve HS patient outcomes through coordinated, comprehensive care approaches.

While Republican state-led efforts aim to increase restrictions to abortion care and access to mifepristone and misoprostol in 2025, JAMA authors join the conversation with their published research and commentary.

The comparable rates of remission pre- and post-pandemic suggest that COVID-19 did not negatively impact the outcomes of patients with ovarian cancer.

Recognizing psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in non-White patients is the first step toward providing more equitable care for those of all backgrounds with PsA, according to Rebecca Haberman, MD, of NYU Langone Health.

Panelists discuss how increasing insurance step edit requirements for high-dose IV iron formulations have created barriers to optimal patient care, requiring providers to implement strategic prior authorization processes and develop documentation protocols to demonstrate medical necessity while advocating for appropriate patient access to these medications.

Panelists discuss how IV iron formulations requiring fewer infusion visits tend to have better adherence rates, while the ongoing nursing shortage has created additional challenges in scheduling and administering IV iron treatments, leading clinicians to favor products that can achieve iron repletion in fewer sessions.

In part 4 of our interview, we learn more about nipocalimab’s safety profile and how this investigative agent might address unmet needs for patients with generalized myasthenia gravis.

Evidence shows alcohol increases estrogen, raising breast cancer risk, with pandemic-related consumption spikes among women.

In patients with early-stage ovarian cancer, a high prognostic nutritional index improved survival, while a high systemic immune-inflammation index worsened it. In advanced stages, both affected overall survival but not progression-free survival.

Sugammadex (Bridion; Merck) is a small-molecule oligosaccharide, also known as a modified gamma cyclodextin, that was approved by the FDA in 2015 to reverse the anesthesia-induced neuromuscular blockade from rocuronium bromide or vecuronium bromide.

Casdatifan targets a transcription factor that binds with other proteins to switch off the body’s anti-inflammatory mechanisms, empowering genes that promote tumor growth in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Although psoriatic arthritis may be more prevalent in White patients, Rebecca Haberman, MD, of NYU Langone Health, emphasizes that the disease affects those across diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Panelists discuss how biosimilar adoption requires multifaceted organizational readiness, involving strategic infrastructure reconfiguration, comprehensive stakeholder education, rigorous clinical and economic evaluation frameworks, and adaptable operational processes to ensure seamless integration and optimization of health care delivery.

Panelists discuss how private label agreements facilitate biosimilar market entry by allowing manufacturers to collaborate on branding, distribution, and market access, ultimately expanding treatment options and potentially reducing health care costs.