MHE Week in Review - PBMI 2024

Difficulty tasting salt makes it harder to reduce sodium intake, a key strategy for controlling hypertension, which is a major risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). Sweetness can make saltiness even harder to discern, a study found.

Perry Cohen, Pharm.D., a longtime member of the Managed Healthcare Executive editorial advisory board, is host of the "Conversations with Perry and Friends" podcast. In this episode, Cohen speaks with Saar Mahna, J.D., MBA, CEO and founder of Banjo Health, an artificial intelligence company focused on prior authorization.

Barbie wears a continuous glucose monitor and an insulin pump and has a phone displaying a CGM app.

Perry Cohen, Pharm.D., a longtime member of the Managed Healthcare Executive editorial advisory board, is host of the Conversations with Perry and Friends podcast. In this episode, his guest is Paul Fronstin, Ph.D., director of health benefits research at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

For patients with psoriasis and Type 2 diabetes, the risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) continued to rise steadily over 10 years despite being prescribed medications intended to protect against it, researchers reported in a retrospective study.

AD and psoriasis were once thought to be opposites in terms of immune response, with AD linked to a Th2-dominant pathway and psoriasis driven by Th17 inflammation. However, newer research has shown that these diseases can overlap in patients and may even share common pathways.