Nine Reasons Health Execs Are Excited for the Future

10 research abstracts presented at the CHEST meeting are split on whether hospital admission during the weekend is assoicated with worse outcomes than admission on weekdays.

Research findings scheduled to be presented at the CHEST meeting show broad positive cardiopulmonary effects from GLP-1s and an association with a reduced risk of acute respiratory failure.

Chad Hatfield, Pharm.D., of UC Davis Health, says 340B savings fund free clinics and mental health care that could shrink as the program’s future shifts.

Fewer than 1 in 5 eligible adults get lung cancer screening. Experts told MHE over email that health plans can help by easing cost, coverage and approval barriers.

Healthcare spending for employer-insured Americans rose by nearly 19%between 2019 and 2023, driven by higher prices, surging drug costs, and spending on hospital care, says the president and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute.

All 46 people with HIV who started long-acting lenacapavir and cabotegravir at a University of California, San Francisco, clinic reached or kept viral suppression over a median of 100 weeks.

Luis Garza, M.D., Ph.D., a Johns Hopkins professor, says hidradenitis suppurativa is neither an infection nor a classic autoimmune disease but an auto-inflammatory condition.

Vision impairment affected 17.6% of 1,484 adult burn survivors in a study presented at AAO 2026, with age the strongest predictor of difficulty seeing.