Data analytics for payers: Improving maternal health outcomes while reducing total cost of care
How health plans can use analytics to improve maternal care and reduce avoidable utilization
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Not Enough Men On Testosterone Get Guideline-Based Hypogonadism Work-Up
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Few men prescribed testosterone therapy received guideline-concordant diagnostic testing for androgen deficiency, and some received therapy despite contraindications, a retrospective chart review indicated. In a...
Read full article →Less Than 1% of Hypertension Cases Screened for Primary Aldosteronism
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- One in 12 patients with incident hypertension screened positive for primary aldosteronism, suggesting expanded screening may boost detection, according to a real-world cohort study. Among 2.5 million adults with...
Read full article →'We've Actually Got Millions of People to Think About It': What We Heard This Week
(MedPage Today) -- "By the actions of the ADA, we've actually got millions of people to think about it." -- Steven Kahn, MBChB, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, on being kicked out of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting after distributing...
Read full article →Diabetes Tied to Higher Death Risk After Solid Organ Transplant
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Diabetes was linked with an increased risk of death among transplant recipients of four major organs, with pre-existing and new-onset diabetes both implicated, a comprehensive analysis of four types of solid-organ...
Read full article →The World Cup Is a Celebration of Sport. It's Also a Warning About Climate Change.
(MedPage Today) -- Over the next month, millions of fans will gather across North America for the FIFA World Cup. Stadiums will fill with cheering crowds. Young athletes will dream of representing their countries one day. Communities will celebrate...
Read full article →GLP-1 and SGLT2 Users Face Different Risk for Diabetic Foot Complication
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Use of GLP-1 receptor agonists was tied to significantly lower risks of major diabetic foot complications compared with SGLT2 inhibitors in adults with type 2 diabetes, a large, real-world analysis indicated. Compared...
Read full article →Visceral Fat and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors; Autoantibodies and IBD
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
Read full article →In Our Dog-Eat-Dog Medical Culture, Physicians Lose
(MedPage Today) -- For years, physicians have voiced the same frustrations: declining reimbursement, increasing administrative burden, private equity infiltration, insurance company control, expanding scope creep, artificial intelligence (AI) anxiety...
Read full article →FDA's E-Cigarette Authorization: Fruity Vapes Not Better Than Tobacco Ones
(MedPage Today) -- Fruit-flavored e-cigarettes recently authorized by the FDA were not significantly better at helping smokers quit than tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes, according to a new memo that's likely to stir new questions about the agency...
Read full article →Endocrine Society Issues First Guideline on Central Precocious Puberty
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- For kids with central precocious puberty (CPP), there shouldn't be a one-size-fits-all approach to testing and treatment, according to a clinical practice guideline from the Endocrine Society. The guideline, the...
Read full article →Talquetamab Regimens Boost Survival in Multiple Myeloma
(MedPage Today) -- Talquetamab (Talvey) plus daratumumab (Darzalex) with or without pomalidomide (Pomalyst) significantly improved survival outcomes over an active regimen for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, a phase III trial showed....
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