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About pharma
Trump announces crackdown on pharmaceutical advertising: President Donald Trump is ordering his health department to crack down on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising in a new memorandum signed Tuesday.
The push, which aligns with past pledges from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., aims to boost scrutiny of social media companies and influencers who promote medicines without proper disclosures, according to a senior administration official granted anonymity to discuss the effort.
Lilly will let small biotechs use its AI models at no cost: Eli Lilly has developed artificial intelligence models that can help predict the behavior of potential drug candidates, based on the data the drugmaker has collected over the last two decades and at the cost of more than a billion dollars. Now, it’s opening up some of those models to biotech companies that want to use them to jumpstart their science.
The only catch? Lilly wants to use data from those other companies to improve its models.
About the public’s health
Details emerge on Florida’s plan to end vaccine mandates: In 90 days, mandates on school vaccines for chickenpox, hepatitis B, Hib Influenza and pneumococcal diseases may be lifted, the health department told The Associated Press. Other vaccinations mandated by state law to attend school — including for measles, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, mumps and tetanus — will “remain in place, unless updated through legislation.”
About healthcare IT
EPIC MUST FACE CLAIMS IT USED MONOPOLY POWER TO HARM A RIVAL BUSINESS, JUDGE RULES: Epic Systems will face claims that it illegally used monopoly power as the nation's dominant electronic health record vendor to unfairly butt out a rival from a growing business serving health insurers. Judge Naomi Buchwald in the Southern District of New York allowed Particle Health to proceed with claims that Epic acted as a monopoly under the federal Sherman Antitrust Act.