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March 21, 2025 Viktor Zarev 0 min read
  1. Match Day 2025 sets records as largest in history.
  2. Texas measles outbreak: It’s bad, it’s nationwide? 
  3. J&J to spend $55B building pharma plants in U.S.
  4. Medicaid work requirements could impact 5M people.
  5. 4 advances that could change tuberculosis treatment.
  6. Aledade, Humana expand VBC partnership to rural clinics.
  7. HCSC spends $3.7B on Cigna’s Medicare Advantage unit.
  8. Optum RX’s PBM payment reform boosts brand-name drugs. 
  9. Sleepiness tied to higher dementia risk in women. 
  10. Fierce Healthcare searches for ‘best company in healthcare’.
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