HIT Press Club AJMC - David Blumenthal, MD, MPP

Oncologists say advances in testing and treatment are outpacing staffing, pay, and access.

Home NB-UVB phototherapy matches office results, boosts psoriasis treatment adherence, and may improve access, but long-term safety, equity, and oversight lag.

Upper-extremity synovial sarcoma required more staged surgery, while lower-extremity disease carried more complications and metastases.

In the US alone, 1.1 million individuals are living with the progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder, and 90,000 are diagnosed each year.

Baricitinib is now FDA approved for adolescents 12 and older with severe alopecia areata, extending the once-daily pill beyond adults.

A new type of eye drug matched standard anti-VEGF therapy in a large trial for diabetic macular edema, a disease affecting 1.6 million Americans.

At a Stakeholder Interchange convened by The American Journal of Managed Care® in Tampa, Florida, an academic-community mix of hematologist-oncologists and pharmacists debated prior authorization, site-of-care payment disparities, and how aggressively to push bispecific antibody regimens to community practices treating patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Portuguese patch testing finds many chronic hand eczema cases link to allergic contact dermatitis—especially occupational exposures like methylisothiazolinone, HEMA acrylates, thiuram mix, nickel.