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March 18, 2026 Jason Barry 0 min read
  1. People don’t need to buy a meningitis vaccine.
  2. Mass AI job replacement? Not in healthcare.
  3. Highmark’s pharmacy partnership with Free Market Health.
  4. Stopping GLP-1s raises risk of heart attack, stroke and death.
  5. Medicinal cannabis doesn’t help anxiety or depression.
  6. Colorectal cancer deaths rise in the US for people under 50.
  7. Highmark Health, BCBS Kansas City affiliation moves ahead.
  8. Health insurance bankruptcies ticked up in 2025.
  9. Sutter Health and Allina Health want to unite.
  10. Physicians still concerned about AI accuracy amid rapid adoption.
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