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By offering pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum, and newborn interventions, as well as primary, wellness, and preventive care, this mobile health center is set to close the access gaps that have long affected the well-being of women and children in Texas.

Managed Healthcare Executive's Managing Editor Peter Wehrwein, and Editor Briana Contreras, had a discussion in July with Mostafa Kamal, president and CEO of Prime Therapeutics, an organization in which Kamal acquired this position that same month.

Swoop, a New York-based company, has launched an algorithm that may help people with multiple sclerosis take medications as prescribed.

Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, had the pleasure of catching up with MHE Editorial Advisory Board Member, Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, who is a professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Early results are expected late next year from the phase 1 trial, which is being funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infecious Diseases, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Vir Biotechnology, a San Franciso biotech company focused on vaccines and infectious disease.

Researchers in Switzlerland reported results from a small, proof-of-concept study in JAMA Ophthalmology that suggest an iPhone 11 and an app may be superior to traditional measurement with an Hertel exophthalmometer.