Podcast: This Week in Managed Care - When to Start Mammography, and Other Health News

New research suggests older adults with both diabetes and edentulism are more likely to experience worse and faster cognitive decline compared with adults without either condition and adults older in age.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we feature several leaders in diversity, equity, and inclusion advancing health equity in their respective organization’s policy and practice initiatives.

The prevalence of comorbidities in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including impaired kidney function, are predictors of long-term mortality, study finds.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Jennifer Schneider, MD, co-founder and chief executive officer of Homeward, a value-based care provider aiming to improve access to high-quality care in rural communities through tech-enabled clinical services, partnerships with local physicians and health plans, and community-level demographic data.

The findings of the ACCESS study show the complex challenge of improving medication adherence among the most fragile members of society.

Baxdrostat is a highly selective aldosterone synthase inhibitor; phase 1 studies showed that the therapy caused a sustained, dose-dependent reduction in plasma aldosterone by more than 70% without reducing cortisol.