Telehealth Delivery Options and Reimbursement
While not all regulations and reimbursement models for telehealth post-COVID-19 are in place, some have become permanent and others may be extended.
Expansion of Primary Care in a Post-COVID-19 World
Expansion of sites of care may soon provide more options for patients and caregivers.
The Future of Medicine: How Care Delivery Is Changing
The healthcare system is poised to change more in the next decade than it has in the past 50 years. At the root of this dynamic is an aging population and a pandemic that is transforming the way healthcare is delivered.
Predictive Medicine: How DNA Testing Is Influencing Healthcare
Will genetic testing and whole genome sequencing become part of the standard of care in treating patients?
Anti-COVID Monoclonal Cocktails
Newly created treatments for high-risk COVID-19 patients have proved highly effective. Unfortunately, challenges with their distribution and administration have limited their use.
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: A Complication of COVID-19
Much remains to be learned about this new condition affecting a growing number of children. However, it is hoped with increased vaccination and fewer cases of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, case numbers of MIS-C will also go down.
Hemophilia Gene Therapy: Cures May Finally Be at Hand
The decades-old dream is to correct the factor deficiency through a single infusion of a hemophilia gene therapy that produces steady high protective levels of FVIII or FIX.
A Brief History of Immunity and Immunoglobulins
Discoveries about the types of immunity eventually led to the use of human antibodies to treat disease.
Against the Storm: High-Dose IVIG as an Immunoregulatory Treatment Strategy for Severe COVID-19
While there may be no “magic bullet” to treat cytokine storm, one widely used immunomodulatory agent in particular — polyclonal intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) purified from healthy donor plasma — is distinguished by the simple fact that it is anything but a narrowly targeted treatment.
Myths & Facts: Childhood Vaccines
Despite proof of lifesaving benefits of vaccines, parental hesitancy to immunizing their children is often fueled by the plethora of myths surrounding vaccine safety.
