Hemgenix Gene Therapy Shows Long-Term Efficacy, Safety in Hemophilia B Patients
December 21st 2023Men with severe or moderately severe hemophilia B continue to display low bleeding rates and very little use of replacement therapies for at least three years following a single dose of the approved gene therapy hemgenix.
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We conducted our annual State of the Industry survey in the early part of November 2023. The survey had 432 respondents, of whom 56% self-reported working for a payer organization (pharmacy benefit manager, insurer or self-insured employer), 34% for a provider organization and the remainder for government or an unspecified “other” category.
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Noninvasive Blood-based Model Developed to Assess Extent and Severity of Ulcerative Colitis
December 18th 2023In an effort to reduce financial and other quality of life burdens for individuals living with ulcerative colitis, Hongliang Chen and his colleagues from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at four medical centers in northeast China sought to develop a routine blood-based tool for assessing the extent and severity of ulcerative colitis.
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Fertility Treatments Found to Be Equally Effective in Females with PCOS as in Those Without
December 18th 2023In a study recently published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, researchers from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, evaluated the fertility treatment pathways used by participants with and without PCOS to determine which pathways resulted in more live births.
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In an early 2023 brief published by KFF, CMS transparency data for 2021 revealed an average denial rate of 17% for all in-network claims, with authorization denials reported as high as 24% of denial volume for some plans and medical necessity denial rates as high as 37% for others.
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FDA Approves Adzynma for Rare Blood Clotting Disorder cTTP
November 27th 2023CTTP is rare hereditary blood clotting disorder stemming from a disease-causing mutation in the ADAMTS13 gene. This gene plays a crucial role in producing the ADAMTS13 enzyme, responsible for regulating blood clotting.
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