Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' prison time gets shortened — again
The Theranos founder was sentenced to 11.25 years in a Texas prison, but she's now projected to get out more than two years earlier.
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Longevity hacks are the latest luxury apartment perk
At some pricey residential buildings in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York tenants can apparently now get IV drips.
Crosby Health is building a clinical LLM to automate insurance appeals. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck the AI startup used to raise $2.2 million.
Crosby Health's main focus is building out its LLM called Apollo, which automates the clinical appeals process.
Big corporate American hospitals now want you to pay up front for surgery
UnitedHealth, a giant health insurance company, has been buying up hospitals and surgery centers. Now it's requiring patients to pay to play.
The longevity clinic of the future is here
High-end longevity clinics are springing up from Singapore to Southern California. They aim to prevent diseases.
Blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy's sales just doubled — and could heat up even more with a price cut
Sales of Wegovy more than doubled in the first quarter year on year to $1.3 billion.
Virtual reality could revolutionize mental-health treatments, including ketamine therapy, for conditions like depression and anxiety
Here's how virtual reality is transforming mental-health treatments such as ketamine therapy for conditions like depression, PTSD, and body dysmorphia.
Gen Z's new status symbol
There's an alarming surge in facial injections driven by young people. In a remote, online world, the hottest status symbol is your face.
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A hacker got 6 years in prison for stealing therapy notes and blackmailing patients
Aleksanteri Kivimäki was found guilty of hacking a therapy company and trying to extort its patients. He was sentenced to over six years in prison.
A hospital reportedly told a woman who turned up for an appointment that she'd died 4 months ago
Susan Johnson her death was registered with the hospital and a government department, but she doesn't know how it happened, the BBC reported.
Mental-health professionals explore AI-powered digital therapeutics to treat patients and improve care
There's a shortage of mental-health providers. AI is being used to bridge the gap by helping analyze symptoms and offering patients treatment plans.
A longevity researcher is facing backlash for claiming to 'reverse aging.' Scientists say there's no consensus on what it means.
Dr. David Sinclair is at the center of a scientific debate on what it means to reverse aging, the Wall Street Journal reported.
McKinsey advised drug companies on how to 'turbocharge' opioid sales. Now it's under criminal investigation.
Prosecutors are probing McKinsey's role in advising opioid drugmakers. The opioid crisis has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Hospital wait times will still be bad this year, even with labor gains
The US may be recovering from a physician shortage, but don't expect to spend less time in hospital waiting rooms this year.
Longevity clinics for the ultrawealthy can cost $50,000 a week. Here are the world's top 6 destinations.
Longevity clinics offering wealthy clients specialized treatment plans are the newest iteration of luxury. Longer and better lives could be a benefit.
Unlocking health and life sciences' potential with cloud solutions
Organizations are turning toward cloud technologies to build a connected healthcare ecosystem and accelerate innovation.
I've saved over $4,000 on medical bills using 3 little-known tips
I have insurance, but I've still received large medical bills. I've saved thousands of dollars with tips like comparing billing codes to charges.
The Adderall shortage highlights a key issue for voters in 2024. Here's what the Biden Administration is doing about it.
The shortage and increased costs could impact who many Americans vote for in the upcoming presidential election.
Big corporations are quietly taking over your medical practice. Some doctors and experts say it's ruining healthcare.
Corporate owners, from UnitedHealth to private-equity firms, are devouring physician practices, making independent doctors a relic of the past.
Gen Zers and millennials are skipping the doctor's office because they can't afford the bills
About two-thirds of Gen Zers and millennials avoided medical appointments last year because of high costs.
Exclusive: An investor in once-hot mental health startup Cerebral is suing the company
Cerebral investor Access Industries is suing another backer, WestCap, claiming a secret power grab inside the mental health company.
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Exclusive: Electronic prescribing giant Surescripts is exploring a sale
E-prescription company Surescripts has hired a bank to find potential buyers, including private equity firms.
Here's the 16-slide pitch deck addiction care startup Pelago used to raise $58 million
Pelago just grabbed a $58 million Series C led by Atomico to expand care for substance use disorders. It could reach profitability after this raise.
Walgreens' biggest healthcare bet is floundering as it shutters 160 primary-care clinics
Walgreens said it's exiting 160 VillageMD primary-care clinics, up from the previously planned 60.
This biotech startup is finding new cancer drugs with $75 million from General Catalyst. Here's the pitch deck Georgiamune used to raise its Series A.
Georgiamune is testing new drugs for cancer and autoimmune disorders with $75 million in Series A funding from investors like General Catalyst.
Healthcare staff use their panic buttons more often during a full moon, study finds
A new study suggests healthcare workers use their personal panic buttons more frequently during a full moon, according to a hospital safety company.
I spent my mid-20s managing my autoimmune disease. Autoimmune patients are underserved, so I started a health company to address the problem.
WellTheory founder Ellen Rudolph talked about her own struggle with autoimmune disease and why she founded the virtual care platform.
One Medical patients are stuck in the middle of a fight between a hospital system and the biggest US health insurer
Some One Medical patients in New York could lose in-network access to doctors due to a dispute between Mount Sinai and UnitedHealthcare.
Small practices are struggling to stay afloat 3 weeks after the cyberattack that crippled the US healthcare industry
The Change Healthcare cyberattack halted payments to providers. Small mental-health practices are running out of money and at risk of closing.
Exclusive: Ex-Truepill CEO just scored $6 million to help health plans and pharma companies ditch middlemen and work closely with patients
Umar Afridi launched Foundation Health to help insurers set up their own online pharmacies and pharma companies to sell drugs directly to consumers.
Why America's hospitals are on life support
Inside the financial scheme that's crippling America's healthcare providers
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The next breakthrough for longevity obsessives: measuring organ age
New research finds that those with accelerated heart aging, for example, have a 250% higher risk of heart failure.
The CEO of hot weight-loss startup Found is stepping down as the company pivots to a new strategy
Sarah Jones Simmer, the CEO of weight-loss company Found, is stepping down, a company spokesperson confirmed.
5 things you can do to lower your ER bill — or avoid one in the first place
To lower your emergency room bill, understand your insurance plan, look for possible errors, negotiate, and think twice about even going to the ER.
Fijoya is bringing AI to employer-sponsored healthcare benefits. Here's the pitch deck it used to raise $8.3 million.
Digital health benefits startup Fijoya is betting on AI to optimize access to employer-sponsored health benefits.
Hip-hop legend Chuck D on advocating for healthcare price transparency
Chuck D of Public Enemy spoke to Business Insider about joining Fat Joe and Foo Fighters to advocate for healthcare reform in Washington, DC.
Amazon, CVS, and Walgreens went all in on primary care. Their bets are bleeding money.
Big retail companies like Walgreens, CVS, and Amazon, want a piece of the $4.5 trillion healthcare industry, but scaling primary care isn't easy.
Inside a prison healthcare company's ownership shell game
Experts say YesCare's corporate structure was highly unusual and may have been designed to divert profits and evade accountability for prisoner health care.
CVS and Walgreens will begin selling abortion pills ahead of a key SCOTUS ruling on restricting access to the drug
President Joe Biden, who has pinned his hopes of reelection on the abortion debate, hailed the news.
You'll soon be able to get birth control without a prescription. Here's what you need to know.
Opill, the first oral contraceptive available for retail in the US, will be priced at $20 per month.
Elon Musk makes it known he hasn't been to therapy
The CEO of Tesla has repeatedly asked that his gravestone read "Never Went to Therapy," even while being open about his mental health.
Abortions now cost over $450, more than double the price before Roe was overturned, per a reproductive care nonprofit director
As travel and medical costs rise, abortion funds worry about meeting "staggering" demand.
Millions of veterans are about to get expanded healthcare access
Millions more veterans exposed to toxins during service will qualify for VA healthcare on March 5.
An infamous hacking group is reportedly behind the cyberattack that has left US pharmacies reeling
A notorious ransomware gang is reportedly behind the outage that has caused a massive backlog in filling prescriptions across the US.
A former US surgeon general says he went to the ER for dehydration and ended up with a $5,000 bill. He called the healthcare system 'broken.'
Former US Surgeon General Jerome Adams said he got a $5,000 bill for a recent ER visit, highlighting big problems with the US healthcare system.
Expect AI-made prescription drugs to be ready for clinical trials in a couple of years, predicts Google DeepMind CEO
"I think we are very close," Google Deepmind's CEO said when asked if AI could help cure a major disease like Alzheimer's or cancer.
This biotech startup wants to prevent unhappiness. Here's the pitch deck Matter Neuroscience used to raise $26 million.
Matter Neuroscience is searching for a biomarker for happiness to prevent neurological diseases like depression and addiction.
Emergency medical bills worry Americans — and it could affect the presidential election
Most Americans worry they won't be able to pay expensive medical bills if they experience an emergency, and it's impacting their economic outlook.
One Medical's former CEO is making his first VC investments. Here are the 5 things a startup needs to get his backing.
One Medical's former CEO Amir Dan Rubin just launched a new VC firm, Healthier Capital, and is already looking to make deals..
Walgreens is closing all VillageMD primary-care clinics in Florida as the pharmacy giant slashes costs
Primary care company VillageMD is shutting down all its clinics in its second-largest market.