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Medical Xpress
The findings revealed that a special group of genes that function within the body's normal DNA repair process were vital to the effectiveness of p53. This new information could help doctors to better identify patients with an increased risk of developing certain cancers. It could also help to develop safer, more effective treatments for patients.
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The Washington Post
The story of Maverick Coltrin’s medical mystery is gripping: Last October, he was just 6 days old when he stopped eating. Then the seizures came. His tiny arms and legs would stiffen for a few seconds as many as 30 times per hour. Doctors at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego tried multiple tests and medications, but nothing revealed what was wrong. When Maverick turned dusty blue, his parents asked, “Do you think he’s going to survive?”
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CNRS via ScienceDaily
Three new members have been added to the Pandoravirus family. Researchers offer an explanation to their puzzling giant genomes with many orphan genes: pandoviruses appear to be factories for new genes — and therefore new functions. From freaks of nature to evolutionary innovators, giant viruses continue to shake branches on the tree of life.
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Medscape
The incidence of cancer has increased worldwide during the past decade, but at least some of that increase is in lung, colorectal, and skin cancer, which are potentially preventable, the Global Burden of Disease study indicates.
"While the increase in lung, colorectal and skin cancers over the past decade is concerning, the prevention potential is substantial," Christina Fitzmaurice, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of global health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, in Seattle, said in a statement.
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Forbes
A new DNA "spit test" for prostate cancer can identify men who have an increased risk of developing the disease.
The research published in Nature Genetics, funded by an international team including the world’s two biggest cancer research agencies, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Cancer Research U.K., studied the DNA of 140,000 men to look for genetic variants that predicted for the development of the disease.
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| | EMERGING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES |
Nasdaq
Healthcare isn’t just about treatment, it's also about diagnosis, prevention and more. In these areas, advanced technologies are playing an increasingly significant role. The confluence of advanced technology with the healthcare ecosystem is set to bring in more efficiency, speed, and cost optimization for hospitals and practitioners while making medical treatment more accessible, timely, and affordable for patients.
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Venture Beat
Blockchain technology is changing the way healthcare is provided to patients around the world, as the transparency of a distributed ledger is a good fit for the industry.
An ecosystem for digital healthcare and wellness services called Doctor Smart is building a health care solution for the masses through its blockchain-powered platform.
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Healthcare IT News
Healthcare data management technology is crucial to the interplay of information between IT systems, organizations and caregivers. The technology ensures that the right information is in the hands of the right person at the right time.
While data management tech is one of the basics of healthcare information and technology, it is by no means in an uninteresting position.
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| | BIOTECH/DIAGNOSTICS/PERSONALIZED MEDICINE |
FierceHealthcare
If precision medicine is really going to be the panacea experts have promised, it'll be because health providers agreed to play nice with each other.
That's why Thomas D. Brown, M.D., executive director of the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, said his organization jumped into a new Precision Medicine Countil convened by tech company Syapse.
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News-Medical.net
Population-based medicines have greatly benefited humanity in general. However, every individual reacts differently to the same medication due to factors such as genetic makeup and environmental stressors. In the pursuit of achieving optimal clinical and therapeutic outcome, the pharmaceutical industry has been putting in enormous efforts to cater to individual needs of a patient.
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Medical Xpress
The University of Toronto's David McMillen and his research team are creating a new life form to ward off disease – a bespoke, gut-dwelling microbe engineered to release drugs when needed.
"Our ideal outcome would be to be able to deliver a therapeutic into the gut with a programmable bacterium, which you could use for multiple diseases," says McMillen, an associate professor in the department of chemical and physical sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga and leader of a Medicine by Design team .
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Medscape
Stem cell transplantation research continues to show encouraging benefits in inducing long-term remission of multiple sclerosis (MS), but many are cashing in on the hopes raised by headlines of "game-changing" results, to the detriment of patients as well as the research field in general, experts say.
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| | ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS |
Modern Healthcare
Accountable care organizations are failing to meet their promise to save Medicare money, and regulations governing the model need to change, according to senior White House officials.
"There are a lot of broken promises and failed estimates in the Affordable Care Act, and the hope and promise of this complicated value design is one of them," Joseph Grogan, associate director of health programs at the White House's Office of Management and Budget, said at the National ACO, Bundled Payment and MACRA Summit.
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Health Data Management
On June 11, veterans will be eligible to receive virtual healthcare from Veterans Affairs providers no matter where they live or where the provider practices in the U.S. This is a sign that we finally are breaking down a bricks-and-mortar mindset that has dominated our healthcare system — the insistence that patients must come to us, the providers, in our workplace to get care.
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FierceHealthcare
Medicaid managed care plans have been touted for keeping spending down, and a recent government report finds they are successful in taming improper payments.
However, the findings might be far from accurate.
The Government Accountability Office, in a May 7 report, said that about 0.3 percent of the $171 billion that Medicaid paid to managed care organizations last year, or about $500 million, was improper.
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Healthcare Dive
Many payers have turned to narrow networks as a way to contain health costs, improve quality and influence physician behavior. Narrow networks are common in Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage (MA) and Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans, though not in employer-sponsored health insurance yet.
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| | FDA: NEW TREATMENTS AND TECHNOLOGY |
STAT
The Food and Drug Administration outlined a framework for cracking down on illegal opioid sales on the internet. Hours later, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb delivered results: a list of nine online operators, running a combined 53 websites, to which it had sent formal warnings for having engaged in illegal marketing and sales of highly controlled opioid painkillers.
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Healthline
People with a type of inflammatory bowel disease have a new treatment option.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded its approval of the drug tofacitinib (sold under the brand name Xeljanz) for adults with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis.
Tofacitinib was initially approved by the FDA in 2012 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Novo Nordisk and the National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP) Medical Directors Institute have released the supplement titled “Management of Obesity: Considerations in Managed Care Medicine” in the Journal of Managed Care Medicine. Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, multifactorial, neurobehavioral disease resulting in adverse metabolic, biomechanical, and psychosocial consequences. The medical and financial burden of obesity significantly affects individuals, health care providers, employers, payers, and society. This supplement provides an extensive overview of the problem of obesity, the benefits of modest weight loss, and why various stakeholders are affected by and should address the issue. Click here to view the published article on the important topic of obesity management.
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Seattle Genetics announced an FDA approved label expansion for our lead product/program Adcetris (Brentuximab Vedotin) in combination with chemotherapy for adults with previously untreated stage III or IV classical Hodgkin Lymphoma. Click here for more information.
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| Advanced Accelerator Applications, a Novartis Company, Receives US FDA Approval for LUTATHERA®, a First-in Class Treatment for Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (GEP-NETs). Please click here to read the entire press release. |
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The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) and the National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP) Medical Directors Institute announced today the joint release of their recent study of medical director perspectives on value demonstration and reimbursement for regenerative and advanced therapies. Click here to view the published article about the study.
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| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a New Technology Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) for the HeartFlow® FFRct Analysis, a first-of-its-kind non-invasive technology that helps clinicians diagnose and treat patients with suspected coronary artery disease. Under the APC payment system, hospitals enrolled in Medicare that bill CMS for the HeartFlow FFRct Analysis for Medicare patients are eligible for reimbursement effective January 1st, 2018. Please click here to view the full press release. |
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