Sickle Cell Disease
Articles March 2023
New Therapies Take Giant Steps Toward Treating Sickle Cell Disease

New pharmaceuticals to treat sickle cell disease (SCD) are steadily improving the health and wellbeing of many people living with this chronic disorder. It is hoped that revolutionary gene therapies now in clinical trials will be able to cure more SCD patients. The r...

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Chat GPT
Articles March 2023
GPT-4 Upgrade Improves Results, Expands Application Potential

GPT-4 features stronger safety and privacy guardrails, longer input and output text, and more accurate, detailed, and concise responses for nuanced questions. Although it offers exciting opportunities for insurance and countless other industries, its potential provid...

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Articles March 2023
Global Health Brief: Experimental Treatments – Current Considerations

Many health insurers exclude experimental treatments without clearly defining which treatments they would consider experimental. In this Global Health Brief, RGA's Colin Weston discusses the need for clear definitions in policy language. He also explores how drugs, t...

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Articles March 2023
Confusing the Matrix: Actuarial adaptations to a well-known construct
In a Society of Actuaries article, RGA's Ryan Holt discusses the confusion matrix and how actuaries have leveraged it in the accelerated underwriting (AU) space.&n... Read More
Asset-Intensive Outlook 2023
Articles March 2023
Asset Allocation Expected to be More Important Than Ever

Asset-intensive reinsurance is growing in popularity in the life insurance industry, and it is more important than ever for insurers to seek out trusted partners when selecting an asset-intensive reinsurer.

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Articles March 2023
Digital Health and its Impact on the Growth and Profitability of the Health Insurance Sector
Digital health is here to stay and will continue to grow. Enabling virtual access to healthcare can empower policyholders to actively manage and improve their own health and wellness, while equipping insurers to optimize portfolio management and performance.
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Publications February 2023
RGActual February 2023 Issue: Celebrating 50 Years of Positive Impact

Explore RGActual, our magazine covering innovation, experience, and development for insurance professionals. In this issue, we continue our celebration of 50 years of positive impact. 

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Articles February 2023
Gen.A.I.rational Wealth

Although much of the spotlight is currently on ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is much broader. In this article, RGA's Neil Parkin provides an overview of potential opportunities emerging from AI for insurers.

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Articles February 2023
A Call to Action: The Insurance Industry and Mental Health

The Geneva Association recently published a comprehensive report on the ongoing mental health crisis and the insurance industry’s role and responsibility in promoting mental wellbeing to help address this growing societal challenge.

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Articles February 2023
RGA's 2022 Surveys Round-Up and Trends to Watch
Learn more about the latest trends and developments in life and health insurance by exploring findings from RGA’s 2022 surveys.  Read More
February 2023
Medical Director Role in Life and Health Insurance | Adela Osman
In this Inside RGA Q&A, Adela Osman, Head of Global Medical, explains why she chose a career in the life and health insurance industry, what RGA Magic means, and how she plans to build on the successful legacy of RGA’s medical team.
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Articles February 2023
The Emerging Use of Psychedelic Substances
As the need for mental health services and associated insurance coverage increases, the quest for solutions becomes more urgent. Psychedelics may be part of the solution.
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Articles February 2023
Product Trends Around the World 4Q 2022

RGA provides quarterly updates on global product developments, which can be made available upon request. ...

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Articles February 2023
ChatGPT: A conversation about underwriting and life insurance
People are talking about ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot capable of processing mountains of text data, providing detailed responses to questions, and engaging in conversation like a human. We decided to put ChatGPT to the test and to consider the implications this tool ... Read More
Articles January 2023
Gene Therapy: The next big thing
The great promise of gene therapy must be weighed against the challenges of high short-term costs. Effective case management and expanded education efforts will be essential to progress.


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Videos January 2023
Myocardial Infarction Claims: The ups and downs of troponin testing
The advent of ultra-sensitive troponin testing has led to changes in the way the test is applied and has led to the discovery of many “troponin positive” illnesses that are not due to coronary artery disease. Read More
Articles January 2023
Synthetic Biology Shows Future Promise for Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and Vaccines
Synthetic biotics show significant promise to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases and improve future mortality and morbidity rates. If these new therapies successfully enter the market in the coming years, they are likely to help transform modern medicine.
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Articles January 2023
Global Claims Views: Employing the elderly may help solve some big problems
Healthy aging promoted through widespread engagement and inclusion of the elderly could help solve some big problems society and the life and health insurance industry currently face. 
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Articles January 2023
Put it Plainly: Customer comprehension of life insurance matters
Growing evidence indicates that introducing behavioral science principles to life insurance documentation can be a critical piece of the highly complex puzzle of solving the protection gap.
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Articles January 2023
Long COVID - The Long-Term Disability Claims Gap
From a disability insurance standpoint and based on numerous articles in the scientific literature and lay press, insurers might have expected a tsunami of long-term COVID disability claims after the expected six-month waiting period. Thus far, however, this has not bee... Read More