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Week brief · March 23 to 29, 2026

Healthcare news, week of March 23, 2026

In the week of March 23 to 29, 2026 the Healthcare desk recorded 49 news events on 4 days. Market trends led with 13.

The most covered stories of the week

  1. Mar 25 Large study finds covid shot in pregnancy protects babies, reports say 14
  2. Mar 25 Hope Medicine Doses First Phase III Patient for Non-Hormonal Endometriosis Drug 13
  3. Mar 25 Merck to buy Terns Pharmaceuticals in $6.7B deal 4
  4. Mar 24 newkerala.com: “Drug Regulator Inspects 49 Sites Over Weight Loss Drug Sales” 3
  5. Mar 24 Manipal Health files for India IPO 3
  6. Mar 23 TGA reviews AI medical scribes over alleged record manipulation 2
  7. Mar 23 Scotland becomes first part of UK to screen babies for rare muscle disease 2

Monday, March 23, 2026

7 events. The full rundown for March 23, 2026. The most covered:

  1. 00:30 UTC TGA reviews AI medical scribes over alleged record manipulation 2
  2. 01:15 UTC Scotland becomes first part of UK to screen babies for rare muscle disease 2
  3. 16:15 UTC Kingston Health Coalition rallies against healthcare privatization 2

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

16 events. The full rundown for March 24, 2026. The most covered:

  1. 04:45 UTC newkerala.com: “Drug Regulator Inspects 49 Sites Over Weight Loss Drug Sales” 3
  2. 08:15 UTC Manipal Health files for India IPO 3
  3. 12:00 UTC Healthcare Innovators Focal and Vheda Health Secure Fast Company 2026 Honors 2

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

15 events. The full rundown for March 25, 2026. The most covered:

  1. 15:30 UTC Large study finds covid shot in pregnancy protects babies, reports say 14
  2. 00:08 UTC Hope Medicine Doses First Phase III Patient for Non-Hormonal Endometriosis Drug 13
  3. 11:46 UTC Merck to buy Terns Pharmaceuticals in $6.7B deal 4

Thursday, March 26, 2026

  1. 01

    King County decriminalizes psilocybin

    2 outlets · first: rentonreporter.com Regulation

    Machine summary federalwaymirror.com reports that a resolution in King County decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms.

    Reported by federalwaymirror.com and rentonreporter.com.

    Full coverage: every report, when each was published, and who was named (2 outlets)

  2. 02

    Coverage recordabcnews.com: “Indian Health Service is digging out of decades - old construction backlog for medical buildings”

    2 outlets · first: ABC News

    Reports ran between 06:45 and 08:30 UTC on Mar 26.

    The outlets that reported this event are listed with links to their reports; no summary of ours passed our automated checks for it, which says nothing about the event (how they work).

    Reported by ABC News and idahostatejournal.com.

    • Indian Health Service

Summaries and key facts are machine summaries of the reports linked with them; outlets, times and counts come from those reports. How a rundown is built.

What kind of news was it?

  1. Market trends 13
  2. Regulation 11
  3. Health IT 10
  4. Acquisition 4
  5. Medical devices 3
  6. Funding 3

Sources: the outlets' reports linked on this page; counts and times from GetYourBrief's record of those reports (methodology).