The real economics of specialty pharmacy: What your specialty drug trend isn’t telling you
As specialty drug costs rise, payers with a comprehensive view can better manage them.
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Employers push health savings plans, nutritional counseling to avoid GLP-1 coverage for weight loss
Cost remains a major factor for employers as the popular drug for weight loss represented 11.4% of annual claims for corporations in 2025.
Read full article →'Why Would You Repeat Those Damn Lies?': What We Heard This Week
(MedPage Today) -- "Why would you repeat those damn lies? That destroys trust." -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), grilling President Trump's nominee for the assistant secretary for preparedness and response over a since-deleted social media post...
Read full article →Real Care Happens in the Moments in Between
(MedPage Today) -- This has been the worst year of my life medically. In the span of months, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, underwent a double mastectomy, required revision surgery, developed a post-surgical infection, and found myself hospitalized...
Read full article →Europe's Early Heat Wave Led to a Spike in Deaths, May Have Killed Over 10,000
(MedPage Today) -- Heat that hit Europe exceptionally early and hard this year appears to have led to a spike in deaths, with well over 10,000 more people dying at the height of the heat wave than would normally have been expected, according to...
Read full article →Vision Benefits in GA With Complement Inhibitor, Regardless of AMD, Anti-VEGF
(MedPage Today) -- MONTREAL -- Geographic atrophy (GA) had a similar response to the complement inhibitor pegcetacoplan (Syfovre) whether concurrent with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) or alone, data from a retina clinical...
Read full article →Brain Aging Advances More Quickly for People With Metabolic Syndrome
(MedPage Today) -- Middle-aged and older adults with metabolic syndrome had older-appearing brains, a large imaging study from the U.K. Biobank cohort suggested. Participants with metabolic syndrome had a significantly higher brain age gap than...
Read full article →Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism in Cancer Patients; Infections in U.S. Hospitals
(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 →The Upside-Down World of the GLP-1 Bridge
(MedPage Today) -- I spent 10 minutes in complete silence in my patient's room today, my eyes scanning lines of text in the electronic medical record. I wasn't looking for a life-threatening lab value or an undiscovered malignancy. I was hunting...
Read full article →The New Malaria Vaccine Helps in Africa but Faces a Test: Completing All 4 Doses
(MedPage Today) -- YAOUNDE, Cameroon -- Rain had turned the dirt road into thick mud, but Mabel Djoumessi kept walking with her 9-month-old son, Kenfack, strapped to her back. His malaria vaccination appointment at a clinic in central Cameroon...
Read full article →Study Backs NP, PA Prescriptions for Abortion Drugs
(MedPage Today) -- Medication abortion was just as safe and effective when provided by nurse practitioners (NPs) or physician assistants/associates (PAs) as compared to physicians, a retrospective cohort study suggested. The estimated effectiveness...
Read full article →Anti-VEGF Continuous Delivery Device Preserves Vision, Retinal Anatomy in DME
(MedPage Today) -- MONTREAL -- Patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) maintained improvements in visual acuity and retinal anatomy for up to 4 years with the ranibizumab port delivery system (PDS; Susvimo), according to updated results from...
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