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Telehealth Safety Alarms, Quiet Vaccine Rule Shift, and Pharma's AI Arms Race

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Telehealth Scale vs. Patient Safety: A Cautionary Signal

A STAT News Pharmalittle roundup cites former employees alleging that telehealth firm LifeMD pushed to maximize the volume of GLP-1 prescriptions, potentially at the expense of clinical oversight. For physicians and HealthTech builders, it's a reminder that scaling virtual care without verified, accountable prescribers can erode the trust the sector depends on. Read the full roundup via STAT News.

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HHS Redraws Vaccine Committee's Charter Without Fanfare

STAT News reports that HHS quietly issued a new charter for its vaccine advisory committee, alongside broader signals of lax clinical oversight for online GLP-1 prescriptions. Changes to how such committees are structured can ripple into guidance physicians rely on daily, making transparency about governance shifts essential. Details are in the STAT News report.

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Big Pharma's AI Supercomputer Race Adds a Third Contender

Bristol Myers Squibb has become the third drugmaker in nine months to announce it is building what it calls the industry's largest NVIDIA-powered AI supercomputer, per STAT News. As pharma races to scale compute, the underlying question for clinicians and HealthTech remains the same: whose data trains these models, and how is that data validated? See the STAT News coverage.

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