DAILY UPDATE: Pain MD and Measles Outbreak as Stock Markets Plunge Deep!

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Stat: 700,000. That’s how many “unnecessary and expensive” injections pain management company Pain MD gave patients over eight years, according to court documents in a healthcare fraud case that led to four employees pleading guilty or being convicted. (KFF Health News)

Quote: “A small measles outbreak could be the start of a public health catastrophe that is completely preventable.”—Alok Patel, a pediatrician at Stanford Children’s Health, on why he worries about the current US measles outbreak (ABC News)

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U.S. stocks plummeted on Friday on poor economic news. Consumer confidence weakened to the lowest level since November 2023, even as long-run inflation expectations rose to the highest since 1995. The services purchasing managers’ index fell into contractionary territory and January home sales contracted by more than expected.

The Dow Jones Industrial Index plunged by 724 points, or 1.6%, as of 3:30 p.m., the S&P 500 slid 1.6% and the NASDAQ Composite index fell about 2.1%. Adding to the negative sentiment: UnitedHealth fell almost 7% on news of a Justice Department investigation.

Notable market movers on Friday also included Alibaba, Celsius, Block, Dropbox.

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Visualize: How private equity tangled banks in a web of debt, from the Financial Times.

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