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Alternative Funding Programs (AFPs) in healthcare are becoming more prevalent, but they raise ethical and legal concerns. AFPs allow insurers to exclude certain specialty medications from their formularies, limiting options for patients who need them. Employers are also using AFPs to lower costs. When medications are excluded, patients are directed to third-party vendors who may mislead patient assistance programs (PAPs) by claiming the patient is uninsured. This diverts resources from vulnerable patients and may violate healthcare laws. The article also discusses new treatments for multiple myeloma and provides coverage of recent medical conferences. [Extracted from the article]

An introduction to articles in the issue is presented on topics including an innovative high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for quantifying ergothionine in various mushrooms, perspectives on the evolution of troubleshooting advice, and the 51st International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2023).

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including analysis of bisphenols, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) approach.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses articles in the issue on topics including an ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method developed for quinoxaline 1,4-dioxide (QdNO), excessive time required in gas chromatography (GC) separations, and use of GC in profiling napthenic acids in produced water in the petroleum industry.

An introduction to articles published within the issue is presented, including one which examined collagen crosslinking and its ability to provide corneal stability in pediatric patients, another on the development of a deep learning model to help conduct segmentation of swept-source optical coherence tomography (OCT) images to measure the volume of macular hole, and one on gene therapy options for glaucoma.

The article focuses on research on the toxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is raising increasing concern. Topics include the PFAS are often referred to as forever chemicals because they do not easily break down in the environment, and the semi-automated approach combines the best features of both manual and automated methods, leading to an approach to that is reliable and relatively inexpensive, and shows good reproducibility.