The revised system gives states greater leeway than they’ve had to cut value-based purchasing deals with pharma companies on innovative but expensive drugs.
“This offers the potential to provide diagnostic imaging using copper-64 to plan individualized treatments with copper-67 agents for a wide range of cancer patients," Australian researchers explained in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Locking down childcare over COVID-19 in a state whose programs serve more than half a million children a day would force 75% of families to work less and 59% to quit a job outright.
The authors tracked data from more than 1,700 patients with stable atherosclerosis, sharing their findings in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Those who underwent neuroimaging and were diagnosed with stroke were also twice as likely to die compared to age-matched controls, according to new research published in Neurology.