Tag: health
Lyft is the latest tech company to send employees home over coronavirus
Ridesharing company Lyft has advised its San Francisco employees to go home after learning one staff member was in contact with someone exposed to coronavirus, or COVID-19. The team member has not exhibited any symptoms and is in touch with medical professionals, Lyft spokesperson Alexandra LaManna told TechCrunch. “We are…
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Indonesian startup Newman’s uses online medicine to tackle sensitive health issues
An Indonesian startup called Newman’s is using telemedicine to help Indonesian patients get care for stigmatized health issues. Part of Y Combinator’s winter 2020 batch, the startup launched last month with prescription hair loss treatments and plans to expand into other verticals, including erectile dysfunction and smoking cessation. Newman’s was…
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Veteran healthcare VC Camille Samuels explains why trying to cure infectious disease is a lousy business
Camille Samuels has spent the last five years as a partner with the healthcare venture firm Venrock and a dozen years before that with Versant Ventures, where she was a managing director. This self-described “grizzled veteran” of the industry has participated in companies that have collectively taken half a dozen…
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US Congress approves $8.3 billion in emergency funding for coronavirus response
Congress on Wednesday approved $8.3 billion in emergency funding to respond to the spreading novel coronavirus, COVID-19, which has already sickened 80 people across 13 states and killed nine in the U.S. alone. More than $3 billion of that funding will go to the research and development of vaccines, therapeutics…
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WellSet is doing a limited launch in Los Angeles of its alternative medicine booking platform
Alternative and holistic healthcare seekers in the Los Angeles area have a new service they can turn to in WellSet, the listing platform that launched on Tuesday. Through the service, customers coming off the company’s existing waitlist can access its marketplace for finding acupuncturists, massage therapists, functional medicine practitioners, craniosacral…
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Rebranding as Anagram, software for out-of-network billing for healthcare providers raises $9.1 million
As it rebrands from Patch to Anagram, the healthcare billing platform making it easier for providers to accept out-of-network patients, has raised $9.1 million in new financing. The round was led by ManchesterStory, with participation from Care Credit, a Synchrony solution, Waterline Ventures, Rogue Venture Partners, Launchpad Digital Health, KEC Ventures, and…
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