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HCA Healthcare put out a 2026 forecast that delighted investors, despite challenges from Medicaid and the ACA. https://trib.al/pGLoUkk

STAT gathered nine of the biggest voices in the health influencer space worth keeping an eye on, for better or for worse. List members include: Morgan McSweeney, PhD, Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN, Darien Sutton MD, MBA, Jay Shetty, Andrew Huberman, and more! Read about the full list here: https://lnkd.in/gi2F9vqD Featured creators: Dr. Jessica Knurick, Morgan McSweeney, and Jessica Malaty Rivera will also be on stage this March at #STATBreakthrough Summit East. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gGDWkUU6

U.K. health officials are facing pressure to rethink how they expand the list of diseases that all newborns are screened for as new therapies become available. https://trib.al/HtPvJTh

"McCollum framed the benefits of milk in terms of white supremacy, saying that the North Americans and Europeans who drank it “attained greater size, greater longevity, and have been much more successful in the rearing of their young” compared to people in Asia and the “people of the tropics” who ate plant-based diets. Today, Freeman said, white supremacists continue to share maps of where in the world people can easily digest milk." Everything you didn't think you needed to know about the milk mustache, from one Sarah Todd. https://lnkd.in/eGUwy58m

Public health and immigration enforcement cannot safely occupy the same space, a physician writes. https://trib.al/8MMSB8C

Roche plans to launch Phase 3 studies of its leading obesity candidate this quarter after the drug led to significant weight loss in a mid-stage trial https://trib.al/AY86jmA

Roche plans to launch pivotal studies of an experimental weight loss drug after a successful mid-stage trial. https://trib.al/wXZ6siZ

Trump's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing a tiny Medicare Advantage pay increase for 2027. Also some more big risk adjustment changes, including requiring diagnoses to be linked to actual encounters with doctors. Health insurers will scream. But insurers will still get $17 billion more in 2027 with these proposals, according to the government's actuaries. https://lnkd.in/gPfw8GWt

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At least a dozen biotech companies are developing tools to diagnose endometriosis more easily. https://trib.al/0bUsokP