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Tiffany Yarina didn’t max out her credit card from a home renovation or luxury purchase. It was from cancer. In 2005, Yarina started losing a lot of weight and watched …
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Retail giant Amazon announced plans Thursday to acquire primary care company One Medical in a cash deal valued at $3.9 billion. The goal of the $18 per share deal is …
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It pays to be in the lab. It pays way less to be at the patient’s bedside. People who work at biotechs, life sciences firms, and pharmaceutical companies pull in …
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Sickness can beget debt, which can then turn around and beget more sickness. That’s the all-too-unfortunate cycle for people across the country who find themselves with overwhelming medical debt, the …
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While the goal of the American health care system is to improve health and well-being, it triggers financial hardship for many people. One in five U.S. households have incurred medical …
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For the better part of the last two-plus years, my colleagues and I at 7wireVentures have been asked as investors if health care — and especially digital health — is …
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You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get this newsletter delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and …
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How the U.S. pays for health care is neither efficient nor fair. Despite spending an astounding 20% of its economic output on health care, the U.S. ranks poorly among high-income …
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