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Pharmacist roles are expanding beyond traditional medication management and dispensing, and cardiovascular teams are elevating their clinical pharmacists to more clinically influential roles. Learn how health systems are harnessing the unique skillsets of their inpatient, ambulatory, and specialty pharmacists to improve patient identification and care, especially for rare cardiovascular conditions.

In a new study, Eli Lilly's new next-generation weight-loss drug, when combined with the company's GLP-1 drug Zepbound, led to significantly more weight loss than just Zepbound alone, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from the District of Columbia, Indiana, and New Jersey.

Annie Andrews, a pediatrician and Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina, said that the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS secretary was what drove her to run for office. "The day I decided to enter this race was the day that RFK Jr. was nominated to lead [HHS]," she said.

In 1992, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) banned sports betting through most of the United States. While individuals could still make bets with one another, neither the government nor businesses could be involved in gambling "schemes" linked to competitive sports. In 2012, New Jersey legalized sports betting, which led to a lawsuit from the NCAA, which argued that doing so violated the PASPA.

The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) recently warned that the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors are at a heightened risk of social engineering attacks, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Florida, and Illinois.

The Trump administration last week started mailing out $500 Affordable Care Act (ACA) "refund" checks to nearly 1 million Americans. According to an administration official, checks will start going out to more than 950,000 Americans across 30 states that use the federal ACA marketplace. "For years, the Biden administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov," Trump wrote in a letter accompanying the checks.

Lindmeier noted that based on "unofficial information … the public health risk to the general population appears to be low." WHO has also requested information about media reports about "a second employee with pneumonia of undetermined cause." So far, the reports have not been verified, and it's not clear if another individual has been infected or died from the plague.

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