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Briefing: As Trump administration cracks down on health care fraud, people with disabilities feel singled out

Strategic angle: As the Trump administration goes after fraud in health care, advocates say the disability community feels singled out.

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Briefing: Why Guardant Health’s (GH) 2026 Screening Story Reinforced Piper Sandler’s Bullish View

Strategic angle: Piper Sandler maintains a positive outlook on Guardant Health following its 2026 screening developments.

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Briefing: FDA and NIH announce more initiatives to reduce animal testing in drug development

Strategic angle: The HHS has made reducing animal testing a priority over the past year.

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Briefing: Protein sequencing advance offers new insights into life's foundations

Strategic angle: Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest questions.

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Briefing: Two key figures of Iranian leadership killed: Who's next?

Strategic angle: Ali Larijani and Gholamreza Soleimani, pivotal figures in Iran's security, have been killed, raising questions about the future of the regime.

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Briefing: Opinion: I was a surgeon. The hardest part of leaving medicine was believing that I could

Strategic angle: Leaving her career as a surgeon, Frances Mei Hardin writes, “was the beginning of a life I actually wanted.”

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Briefing: Argentina has officially left the World Health Organization

Strategic angle: Javier Milei's government finalises Argentina's withdrawal from the WHO, citing health sovereignty.

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Briefing: Drug use report: Sharp drop of MDMA in European wastewaters; cocaine and ketamine rise

Strategic angle: A new study reveals significant changes in illicit drug use across Europe, highlighting a decrease in MDMA and increases in ketamine and cocaine.

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Briefing: Who was Ali Larijani, Iran's unofficial strongman?

Strategic angle: Veteran politician Ali Larijani came from a powerful family — but was never fully embraced by Iranian hardliners.

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Briefing: Targeted alpha therapy: One compound holds promise for unified cancer care

Strategic angle: ORNL is a leader in developing advanced radiotherapies and providing essential radioisotopes.

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Briefing: 'The biggest challenge’ and ‘opportunity’: Euronews Health Summit key takeaways

Strategic angle: Medicine shortages, European health sovereignty, the ethical lines of AI, and mental health dominated the conversation Euronews’ Health Summit in Brussels.

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Briefing: Eight Trends Shaping 2026 Health Care Costs

Strategic angle: A new Peterson-KFF policy explainer lays out the health care trends shaping the 2026 policy debates.

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Briefing: Who will win the race to become Paris mayor?

Strategic angle: The Paris mayoral race narrowed as a former minister joins forces with a fellow right-winger for the second-round run-off.

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Briefing: Smoking rates are at a historic low. You’re not hearing about it from the government

Strategic angle: The CDC had remarkable data on smoking rates last fall, but it no longer had smoking experts available to review it and disseminate it.

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Briefing: Epic notches a legal win, but the saga continues

Strategic angle: An update on Epic's lawsuit over alleged improper access to health records, Nvidia's new radiology AI partnership, and more.

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Briefing: Trump's Drug Pricing Moves and GSK Asthma Drug Insights

Strategic angle: The White House intensifies pressure on Congress for drug pricing legislation.

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Briefing: Opinion: Semaglutide is going off-patent in India. But will people who need it be able to get it?

Strategic angle: Rules determining who gets access to semaglutide in India were written for different bodies with different cardiovascular risks.

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Briefing: Opinion: The greatest threat to federally qualified health centers may not be federal funding cuts

Strategic angle: After 50 years of operation, FQHCs are discovering that their financial structure has not kept pace with the realities of delivering on their mission.

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Hundreds feared dead in strike on Kabul hospital

Taliban blames Pakistan for attack that threatens to escalate neighbours’ conflict

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400 people killed in Pakistan strike on Afghanistan hospital treating drug users

A tragic incident unfolds as a hospital in Afghanistan is targeted, resulting in significant loss of life.