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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about an Italian acquisition, Medicare Advantage market growth, and more

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  Italian pharma company Recordati said it will buy from Sanofi the global rights to an approved drug to treat cold agglutinin disease , a rare autoimmune disorder, for $825 million, Reuters reports.    The Medicare Advantage market is expected to grow in 2025, despite big changes from insurers , STAT reports.

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Is Livongo-Teladoc merger a ‘leap forward’ for digital health?

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While both companies operate in virtual care and chronic condition management, their approaches are very different. Its second-quarter revenue leaped 125% to almost $92 million.

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Express Scripts on the Road to Damascus?

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It’s a very useful metric for chronic diabetes management, because since red blood cells stick around in the blood for ~3 months, it can give you a sense of how well controlled a person’s diabetes is over the past three months, even if their current blood sugar is perfectly normal. They do… to a point.