Health Care Delivery

Mitigating the high cost of prescription drugs is a win-win to address the complex, multipronged problem of getting patients to take their medications as advised.

With more people living with HIV now reaching advanced ages and qualifying for Medicare coverage, this new study investigated HIV-related influences on their health care spending, particularly antiretroviral therapy (ART), compared with a population who does not have HIV.

Later school start times are being considered to address youth mental health crises; states are taking action to enact legislation on opioid addiction and fentanyl-related deaths; Unilever recalls 2 Suave aerosol antiperspirant products due to a potential carcinogen.

Certain types of ophthalmic care were more successful with video visits based on what was required to treat patients, said Darren Chen, MD student at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

A significantly greater proportion of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps reported symptom-free days for at least 1 symptom when treated with dupilumab vs placebo in the 28 days preceding 24-week and 52-week analysis intervals.

Additional analyses from the SCORED trial further highlight sotagliflozin's benefits among patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, regardless of cardiovascular disease presence.

Only half of pediatric patients with atopic dermatitis who fit the criteria of having severe disease were identified as such by managing physicians.

Milind Desai, MD, MBA, director of the Center for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and medical director of the Center for Aortic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, speaks on therapeutic implications of the VALOR-HCM late-breaking clinical trial findings presented Saturday at the American College of Cardiology's 71st Scientific Session.

This new analysis of data from the Swedish Heart Failure Registry involved an investigation into the relationship between therapy count and dosing on mortality and morbidity among patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

Both fidaxomicin and vancomycin are recommended for treatment of Clostridioides difficile infections, but real-world data suggest fidaxomicin should be the go-to treatment option.

Democrats and Republicans are near agreement on a $10 billion COVID-19 funding package; scientists perform the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome; more than a third of high school students reported they experienced poor mental health during the pandemic.

Conversations are ongoing between CMS and patient advocates on how accountable care organizations (ACOs) and similar programs can better interface with beneficiaries.

Orly Vardeny, PharmD, MS, core investigator, Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research, and associate professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, discusses key barriers to access of novel therapies and what sessions she’s looking forward to during the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) 71st Annual Scientific Session.

Younger and older patients with noneosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) with nasal polyps showed significant differences in preoperative blood eosinophil levels and postoperative modified Lund-Kennedy scores.

Findings of 2 abstracts presented at the 2022 American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Annual Meeting showed that ruxolitinib cream (​​Opzelura) demonstrated significant improvement vs vehicle in patients with atopic dermatitis of Black race and across anatomic regions.

Levosimendan appeared to increase in-hospital survival rates, although no long-term survival benefit was reported, among patients with comorbid heart failure and connective tissue disease–associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (CTD-PAH).

Patients with severe asthma continue to have residual disease despite initiating treatment with biologics, and severe uncontrolled asthma is associated with higher economic burden compared with controlled asthma, according to 2 posters.

Investigators say it may soon be possible to design therapies better at staving off resistance among patients with lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma/Waldenström macroglobulinemia (LPL/WM), which is an incurable disease.

Racial and ethnic health disparities are documented and substantial, but the data are out there to create programs that successfully address these disparities, said panelists.

A new FAIR Health white paper containing the fifth annual edition of FH Healthcare Indicators and FH Medical Price Index was released, showing a dramatic increase in telehealth utilization from 2019 to 2020.

Everything from the genomic data for the cancer to the zip code of a patient matters when delivery care, said Edmondo Robinson, MD, MBA, MS, FACP, senior vice president and chief digital officer at Moffitt Cancer Center.

Longer drug survival was associated with interleukin-17 (IL-17) inhibitors vs tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors in the treatment of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, but persistence rates for first-line biologics overall remained low.

A 6-month chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care management collaborative helped reduce COPD-related revisits and save hospitals money.

UnitedHealth Group will buy LHC Group for $5.4 billion as part of its home health care expansion plan; the FDA approved a second COVID-19 booster dose for adults aged 50 and older; a study found differing patterns of clinic and emergency department acute-care use between White, Black, and Latino or Hispanic children with asthma.

The American College of Cardiology will host its annual conference beginning Friday, April 1, 2022, both in-person and online.