- Center on Health Equity and Access
- Clinical
- Health Care Cost
- Health Care Delivery
- Insurance
- Policy
- Technology
- Value-Based Care
Using Viral Delivery Agents in Cancer
Investment in research on viral vectors to deliver anticancer agents is providing returns, the CEO of Oncolytics will affirm. However, the road is treacherous.
Brad Thompson, CEO of Oncolytics Biotech, was thrilled to see CBS’ 60 Minutes bring attention to virus-based cancer treatments a couple weeks back, in a report focused on an engineered polio virus being developed at Duke University to treat glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. But Thompson also understands all too well the challenges of bringing these viruses to market, having guided his company through a sometimes brutal and public quest to develop a treatment that’s similar to the Duke approach.
Oncolytics Biotech was founded in 1998 on discoveries made at the University of Calgary about the cancer-killing prowess of reovirus, a bug that most people have been exposed to but that typically doesn’t cause infectious symptoms. The company went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Nasdaq a couple of years after its founding, while it was conducting early phase 1 trials of its reovirus-based therapy, Reolysin, in head and neck cancer.
Read the complete Forbes article:
CMS' 340B Repayment Proposal May Harm Vulnerable Hospitals, Reward Those With Higher Revenues
April 26th 2024The 340B hospitals not receiving an offsetting lump-sum payment from CMS following 2018-2022 cuts later ruled unlawful are disproportionately rural, publicly owned, and nonacademic, according to a new study.
Read More
Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Listen
Empowering Community Health Through Wellness and Faith
April 23rd 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In the third episode, Camille Clarke-Smith, EdD, MS, CHES, CPT, discusses approaching community health holistically through spiritual and community engagement.
Listen
Kaiser Permanente was hit by a data breach in mid-April, impacting 13.4 million health plan members; GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) sued Pfizer and BioNTech for allegedly infringing on its messenger RNA technology patents in the companies’ COVID-19 vaccines; the CDC announced the first-known HIV cases transmitted via cosmetic injections.
Read More
