Summit Health's Ashish D. Parikh and Jamie Reedy Talk Value-based Care and What it Takes to Invest in These Programs

Acoramidis is an oral small molecule to treat patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.

Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, spoke with Fred Turner, CEO of Curative, in this month’s episode about the challenges middle-class Americans face in dealing with medical debt, exploring the causes behind it and the impact on overall health.

Two investigational therapies for Rett syndrome, using different technologies, aim to control expression of the delivered gene and avoid the adverse events associated with conventional gene therapy.

Briana Contreras, an editor with Managed Healthcare Executive, spoke with Harsha Rajasimha, MD, founder and executive chairman of IndoUSrare, in this month's episode of Tuning in to the C-Suite podcast. The conversation was about how the disparity in diversity and ethnicity in rare disease clinical trials in the U.S. has led to gaps in understanding diseases and conditions, jeopardizing universal health, and increasing the economic burden of healthcare.

The authors found that patients who received DAA treatment had a five-year survival rate of 47.2% compared with 35.2% for untreated patients.

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified 315 deaths from hepatitis A.