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- By Marc Herant
A new approach to schizophrenia
Antipsychotic agents treat schizophrenia by manipulating the dopaminergic system. While they are effective at treating psychosis, they can have major side effects and t…
- By Tory Wolff
All that effort for only 0.4% savings
Since 2014, HUM has reported on the performance of primary care in value-based arrangements (“VBA”) vs. traditional contracts (“non-VBA”)[1] in Medicare Advantage…
- By Marc Herant
We can cure Hep C but not immunize against it
Sovaldi and other drugs have made curing chronic Hepatitis C a routine, if expensive, proposition. Still, given how common Hep C infection is, and how it …
- By Tory Wolff and Anja Schempf
Eighteen months ago, WMT opened its first Walmart Health clinic attached to a supercenter in Dallas, GA. The operation combined multiple services – primary/urgent care, dentistry, behavioral health, …
- By Marc Herant
Incremental progress in the fight to treat heart failure
After a decade or more of relative quiescence in the 2000s, a volley of new therapies have come to the forefront in the pages of the NEJM: sacu…
- By Marc Herant
Cardiovascular health – go big or go narrow?
A follow up on the development of evinacumab (Regeneron), an inhibitor of ANGPLT3 (see this opinionated take from 2017), confirming the safety and LDL red…