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When Health Care Crowdfunding Fails
If you wanted to break my brain as quickly as possible, you would only have to strap me into an Oculus headset and set the browser to scroll through the thousands of medical GoFundMe campaigns that are active at any given time. I’d be toast in an hour. The platform is a horrifying wasteland of…
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Here’s how U.S. health officials are responding to bird flu in humans after second case
U.S. health officials have been monitoring and responding to bird flu in humans, even as they stress that the risk to the general public remains low. A strain of bird flu called H5N1 has been confirmed in dairy cows across nine U.S. states, along with two people. Some infectious disease experts say the U.S. government…
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Healthcare in Syria is at risk of collapse
On April 30, the European Union’s eighth annual conference on “Supporting the future of Syria and the region” in Brussels started with a day of dialogue. Members of Syrian civil society, representatives of United Nations agencies and international NGOs, and political leaders from the EU and other stakeholder countries came together to debate and strategise…
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Health And Biotech Startups Now Get The Majority Of US Series A Funding
This year is shaping up as the first we’ve seen in which biotech and healthcare startups receive a majority of U.S. Series A commitments. So far in 2024, biotech and health companies have pulled in around $5.6 billion across 110 Series A rounds, per Crunchbase data. That accounts for 53% of all funding at the…
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Patrick Mahomes’ Wife Brittany Mahomes Gives Health Update After Breaking Her Back
Brittany Mahomes has reached the end zone of her recovery. Three months after revealing she fractured her back, the former soccer player—who shares children Sterling, 3, and Patrick “Bronze,” 17 months, with husband Patrick Mahomes—provided an update on her healing process, saying she’s back to feeling 100 percent. “I’m doing great,” Brittany exclusively told E! News’ Francesca Amiker.…
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Cybersecurity in health care ‘truly takes a village’
Good morning. Cybersecurity is top of mind in many C-suites and audit committees, but cyberattacks in the health care sector, in particular, are on the rise, experts say. “In my world, it’s almost an act of war,” Stephen Gillett, chair and CEO of life science company Verily, said during Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in Dana…
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A new Milwaukee program gives away free trees, improves health, builds community. Here’s how.
Henry Szymanski has walked along the winding paths in Bay View’s Humboldt Park for nearly half a century, taking in the peaceful sounds of the city haven. But over the past two decades, Szymanski, a retired landscape architect and board member of Humboldt Park Friends, has witnessed the park lose hundreds of trees thanks to…
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Hawaii Department of Health probe in February didn’t detect petroleum in water
A recent investigation by the state Department of Health into the Navy’s Oahu drinking water system found no petroleum or jet fuel compounds in drinking water samples collected in February but did not rule out the possibility of residual fuel in the system after fuel from the Navy’s Red Hill storage facility contaminated it in…
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There’s an HIV outbreak in Memphis; public health officials are silent on the numbers
There is an “alarming” increase in the number of new positive HIV tests in Shelby County; that’s all the public knows. The extent of the outbreak has not been quantified for the public. The Shelby County Health Department posted a notice of the increase in cases online on May 13, and highlighted the zip codes…
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NH to address lack of affordable housing as a health issue
New Hampshire’s housing crisis is about a lot more than having a roof over your head. It also involves economic growth, job creation and tax revenue. And now, a new awareness is developing: the profound impact of housing on well-being and health care. There’s a growing realization that making affordable housing more available could be…