Dentists seek greater Medicaid reimbursement for pediatric care
Illinois dentists are asking lawmakers to increase the Medicaid dental reimbursement rates they receive for pediatric care.
High Response Rates in Psoriasis With Oral IL-23 Inhibitor
An oral interleukin (IL)-23 inhibitor for psoriasis produced 16-week response rates as high as 79% in moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, a prospective phase II trial showed. The drug (JNJ-77242113) achieved response rates of 37% to 79% across five dose levels. In contrast, patients treated with placebo had a 9% response rate at 16 weeks. The most […]
Mortality Reaches 20% for Hospitalized Patients With High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism
Mortality rates were high among patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE), with the worst outcomes in those with hemodynamic collapse, according to a retrospective analysis of the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT) Consortium Registry. In nearly 5,800 patients, in-hospital mortality occurred over five times more frequently among those with high-risk PE compared with those with […]
Suicide Rates Among Black Women Rose Over 2 Decades
Suicide rates among Black women increased from 1999 to 2020, especially among teens and young adults, according to an analysis of national data. Among Black women ages 15 to 84, suicide rates rose from 2.1 per 100,000 in 1999 to 3.4 per 100,000 in 2020, according to Victoria Joseph, MPH, of the Columbia University Mailman […]
Year in Review: Follicular Lymphoma
Studies demonstrating high response rates and manageable safety profiles, along with FDA approvals, have supported bispecific antibodies as promising treatment options for follicular lymphoma. At the start of 2023, a new option became available with the accelerated approval of mosunetuzumab (Lunsumio) late last year. The first-in-class bispecific monoclonal antibody works by inducing CD20-directed CD3 T-cell […]
12 Statistics That Will Completely Change How You Think About HIV
Illustration: Kim Salt for HuffPost; Photos: Getty In the last 10 years, new HIV diagnosis rates have declined, but the virus still infects tens of thousands of people every year in the U.S. Certain ideas probably come to mind when you hear the word HIV — like what groups of people are most impacted and […]
Cancer Patients More Likely to Die During COVID Pandemic
Cancer patients experienced significantly higher rates of COVID-19-related deaths compared with the general public, according to two retrospective studies from the U.S. and Canada. In a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Oncology, researchers found that the winter Omicron surge of 2021-2022 was particularly deadly, as the number of deaths among U.S. cancer patients increased by […]
CDC: Dialysis Patients Carry Heavier COVID Burden
Patients on maintenance dialysis had somewhat higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 infections and related deaths than seen in the general U.S. population, although immunization mitigated some of the excess risk, the CDC reported. From June 30, 2021, to Sept. 27, 2022, the overall infection rate per 10,000 patient-weeks was 30.47 among maintenance dialysis patients, with a […]
Hysterectomy Ultimately Needed After 1 in 8 Endometrial Ablations
Hysterectomy rates can be expected to rise slowly in the months and years following endometrial ablation, regardless of ablation device type, a meta-analysis found. Risk of hysterectomy rose to from 4.3% at 1 year post-endometrial ablation to 12.4% at 5 years in patients with heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), reported Tamara Oderkerk, MD, of Maxima Medical […]
Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk Varies by Molecular Subtype
Different molecular subtypes of breast cancer had varying rates and patterns of recurrence following surgery for early-stage disease, a large retrospective cohort study showed. Overall, the 10-year freedom from ipsilateral, regional, and contralateral recurrence was 95.9%, 96.1%, and 96.5%, respectively. Using hormone receptor (HR)-positive (+)/HER2-negative (-) tumors as the reference, HR-/HER2+ breast cancer had the […]