Optum Rx, Caremark making ‘significant progress’ in settlement talks with FTC / Healthcare Dive
Rebecca Pifer Parduhn / healthcaredive - It’s looking increasingly likely that the UnitedHealth and CVS drug middlemen will also make peace with federal regulators, after Cigna agreed to a sweeping settlement in the insulin lawsuit last month.
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Saturday, March 7, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 20308 / 3 stories in 9 days
Moderna to Pay Up to $2.25B to Settle Patent Suit Over Covid-19 Vaccine Technology / MedCity
Frank Vinluan / medcitynews - Under the settlement, Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma will grant Moderna a non-exclusive license to their lipid nanoparticle technology for mRNA delivery in infectious disease vaccines. If Moderna’s full financial payout to the companies is reache…
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Saturday, March 7, 2026, 12:22 am / permalink 20307 / 3 stories in 9 days
FDA vaccine chief to step down in April / Beckers
Ella Jeffries / beckershospitalreview - Vinay Prasad, MD, the FDA’s top regulator of vaccines and cell and gene therapies, will step down at the end of April, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. Dr. Prasad joined the agency in 2025 on a one-year sabbatical from the University of Calif…
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Friday, March 6, 2026, 6:23 pm / permalink 20292 / 3 stories in 10 days
Hospitals urge regulators to halt drugmakers’ expanded 340B data policies / Healthcare Dive
Emily Olsen / healthcaredive - The American Hospital Association argues new policies from Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk requiring providers to submit more claims data on dispensed 340B drugs is onerous and unlawful.
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Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:23 pm / permalink 20277 / 4 stories in 10 days
GLP‑1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance, according to a study of 600,000 people / Medical Express
medicalxpress - A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn't use a patch. He didn't set a quit date. He simply lost interest. It happen…
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Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:23 pm / permalink 20276 / 10 stories in 10 days
AI blood test finds silent liver disease years before symptoms / Science Daily Cancer
sciencedaily - Researchers created an AI-driven liquid biopsy that scans patterns in fragments of DNA circulating in the blood. The system detected early liver fibrosis and cirrhosis—conditions that often go unnoticed until serious damage occurs. By analyzing genome-wid…
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Friday, March 6, 2026, 1:22 am / permalink 20251 / 7 stories in 10 days
Groundbreaking new drug shows promise for treating children with a devastating form of epilepsy / LiveScience
livescience - An experimental treatment reduces seizures and other symptoms in children with a type of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome.
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Thursday, March 5, 2026, 4:23 pm / permalink 20233 / 4 stories in 11 days
Adding Hormone Therapy to PORT Might Not Benefit Patients with Recurrent Prostate Cancer and PSA of 0.5 ng/mL or Less / ESMO
esmo - Findings from the POSEIDON meta-analysis of the MARCAP consortium
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Thursday, March 5, 2026, 3:23 am / permalink 20175 / 3 stories in 11 days
RFK Jr. names 2 new members to CDC vaccine panel / Beckers
Erica Cerutti / beckershospitalreview - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed two new members to the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee Feb. 27, ahead of a rescheduled meeting in mid-March where members are expected to review COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. Mr. Kennedy said Sean Downing…
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Monday, March 2, 2026, 3:24 pm / permalink 20024 / 9 stories in 14 days
Parents of gravely ill child refused respite care / BBC
bbc - Birmingham Children's Trust refused respite help and suggested training grandparents to help.
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Monday, March 2, 2026, 2:22 am / permalink 19974 / 5 stories in 14 days
After 4-Week Strike, Kaiser Permanente Workers Score Tentative Win on Staffing & Pay / MedCity
Katie Adams / medcitynews - About 31,000 Kaiser Permanente workers ended a four-week strike after reaching a tentative agreement that includes measures to address chronic understaffing and wage increases. The full contract has not yet been ratified.The post After 4-Week Strike, Kais…
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Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:22 pm / permalink 19945 / 8 stories in 16 days
CMS freezes $260M in Medicaid funding to Minnesota, citing fraud concerns / Beckers
Jakob Emerson / beckershospitalreview - CMS is freezing $259.5 million in federal Medicaid funding to Minnesota, citing unsupported or potentially fraudulent claims in the state’s program. “We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Mi…
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Saturday, February 28, 2026, 5:22 am / permalink 19939 / 3 stories in 16 days
Microplastics discovered in prostate tumors / Medical Express
medicalxpress - Small fragments of plastic were found in 9 out of 10 patients with prostate cancer, and in higher levels inside tumors than in nearby noncancerous tissue, a new study finds. The small, single-center study was led by researchers at NYU Langone Health, its …
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Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 19928 / 4 stories in 16 days
Boehringer wins accelerated approval for first-line use of lung cancer drug / Endpoints
Lei Lei Wu / endpoints - The FDA greenlit an expanded label for Boehringer Ingelheim’s lung cancer drug Hernexeos, marking the first use of the Commissioner's National Priority Voucher for a new indication. Boehringer won an accelerated
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Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 19927 / 9 stories in 16 days
Patient dies in MacroGenics' cancer study, FDA puts trial on hold / Endpoints
Max Gelman / endpoints - The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on MacroGenics’ Phase 2 study in gynecologic cancers after one patient died and three others experienced life-threatening side effects, the company disclosed Tuesday. The patient who died ...
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Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 19925 / 3 stories in 16 days
UHS posts 11.5% operating margin in 2025 as net income jumps 30% / Beckers
Andrew Cass / beckershospitalreview - King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services recorded a net income of $1.5 billion in 2025, up from $1.1 billion in 2024, according to its Feb. 25 financial report. Eight things to know: 1. The for-profit system reported an operating income of $2 …
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Friday, February 27, 2026, 11:25 am / permalink 19887 / 10 stories in 17 days
Cancer blood test fails to catch disease earlier in major study / Medical Express
medicalxpress - A blood test designed to find cancer early did not work as hoped in a major new study, according to the company that makes it.
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Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7:24 pm / permalink 19851 / 7 stories in 18 days
More Research, Less Cancer: £250m raised to transform the future of cancer research / Cancer Research UK
Charlotte Mathé / cancerresearchuk - We’ve reached an incredible moment - £250m raised for our More Research, Less Cancer campaign. This milestone brings us more than halfway to our £400m goal and accelerates our mission to prevent, detect and treat cancer earlier and more effectively. The p…
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 1:24 pm / permalink 19675 / 53 stories in 20 days
FDA Launches Framework to Accelerate Individualized Therapies for Ultra-Rare Diseases 2026 / OncoDaily
oncodaily - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released groundbreaking draft guidance introducing a new regulatory framework designed to accelerate the development and approval of individualized therapies for patients with […]
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 12:25 pm / permalink 19669 / 6 stories in 20 days
ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations / Nature
Ashwin Ramaswamy / nature - Nature Medicine, Published online: 23 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04297-7A stress test of ChatGPT Health triage revealed missed high-risk emergencies and inconsistent activation of suicide-crisis safeguards, raising safety concerns for consumer-…
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 11:25 am / permalink 19660 / 18 stories in 20 days