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Healthcare

Consumer sentiment sitting at 53.3 in March 2026, deep in pessimistic territory, retail investors are hunting for defensive names that can grow even as households tighten budgets. Healthcare keeps that promise. Personal healthcare spending climbed from $3.432 trillion in January 2025 to $3.741 trillion by March 2026, outpacing total consumption while motor vehicles and other discretionary categories softened. Medical device stocks trading below $30 give individual investors an affordable way to ride that resilience.

There's lots of uncertainty around how the Senate will find the bandwidth to confirm another FDA commissioner while it considers President Trump's nominees for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and surgeon general. The FDA itself is also facing other key internal vacancies, including for directors of the centers overseeing drugs and biologics. And there are questions about whether a successor will continue efforts to streamline clinical trials and other regulatory actions.

The 2,000 HSE ambulance service workers will begin a 24-hour work stoppage over pay from 8am on Tuesday. While Dublin will still have Dublin Fire Brigade ambulances to rely on, many other counties - where long journeys are sometimes required to get a patient to the nearest hospital - will be more vulnerable.

JPMorgan's price target cut reflects near-term caution around the GLP-1 pivot, with Hims & Hers retooling its U.S. weight loss offering away from compounded versions toward branded alternatives as branded supply has stabilized and compounded products have come off the FDA shortage list. Compounded GLP-1s carried higher margins, and the handoff is creating reporting noise.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Monday launching moms.gov, a website aimed at supporting expectant mothers with additional resources. During the event, Trump riffed about his moves to cap the price of prescription drugs and slammed the media over what he claimed was a refusal to cover the topic. The media, they don't want to write about it. Think of it. We're reducing drug prices by 50%, 60%, or 80%, or 75%. Anyway, it's all about the phrasing of the question. And the media doesn't write about it. It's amazing. It's so sad. It's biased.

Legislation to create a single patient record (SPR) for each person, which would be used across all healthcare providers, is part of a 10bn digitisation of the health service. The health secretary, Wes Streeting, said making the data accessible in one place would be a gamechanger that would save lives. The legislation aims to spare patients from constantly having to repeat their medical history when turning up at hospital or being discharged back to their GP.

Libyan Dr. Faysal Alghoula must renew his green card to continue caring for roughly 1,000 patients in southwestern Indiana, but hasn't been able to since the Trump administration stopped reviewing applications for people from several dozen countries it deemed high-risk. Alghoula's current visa will expire in September if his application is denied. Last week, the administration quietly made an exemption for medical doctors with pending visa or green card applications, possibly allowing Alghoula's case to move forward.

Unlike the typical 10- to 15-minute OB check-up, Booher and Doyle spent a full hour together in early March, chatting on a comfortable sofa at Moonstone Midwives Birth Center in Eureka, California. The cozy room where they met has kids' toys in one corner, calm pastel-colored paintings on the wall, and feels more like a friend's living room than a clinic.

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association Q4 2025 National Delinquency Survey, 4.26% of all mortgage loans were delinquent but not in foreclosure at the end of the year. But conventional loans had a near-record low level of delinquency at 2.89%, while FHA loans were past due at a much higher rate of 11.52% the highest delinquency rate (excluding the COVID period) since 2012.

Cuba has two main sources of revenue, tourism and doctors. The US claims that as the Cuban government retains a portion of the doctors' salaries, the schemes amount to forced labour.

Saphier's tweets include raising questions about an MRI the president had and pushing back on his public comments about Tylenol. Lots of people questioning POTUS MRI I have questions too, Saphier wrote in a deleted October post.

Patients generally have a right to access their official clinical records, which include protected health information maintained by mental health professionals under HIPAA. However, psychotherapy notes are specifically excluded from this access, creating a distinction that can be confusing for patients.

Employee sickness absence costs UK businesses an estimated £11.8bn in lost profits in 2025, highlighting the growing economic impact of workplace illness on firms.

The CDC director doesn't just guide public health—she/he shapes the conditions that determine whether scientific innovation actually reaches and protects people at scale.

Prior authorization is an essential safeguard but should only be used when it truly protects patients and improves care. Eliminating these requirements is one more way we are working to make it easier for patients to get the care they need when they need it and ensure doctors can spend more time with their patients.

The stay was in response to requests from drugmakers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro to restore access to mifepristone via teleprescribing and the mails.