Category: Medicine
All 50 startups from Y Combinators Summer 2017 Demo Day 1
Biotech and artificial intelligence have emerged as the top startup trends at Y Combinator‘s 25th Demo Day. The 124 companies presenting at the entrepreneur school’s twice-yearly graduation event compose YC’s largest batch from its 12.5 years running. YC partner Michael Seibel kicked off the event by reiterating the accelerator’s commitment to advancing diversity in Silicon […]
Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors
St. Augustine, Florida (CNN) When he was 11 years old, LJ Stroud of St. Augustine, Florida, had a tooth emerge in a place where no tooth belongs: the roof of his mouth. With her son in terrible pain, Meredith Stroud arranged for surgeries to fix his problems. But just days before the procedures were […]
More Than A Third Of US Adults Prescribed Opioids In 2015
The United States needs to curb excessive opioid prescribing and improve access to pain management techniques, suggests a new government study. Researchers found that more than one third of U.S. adults were prescribed the medications in 2015 and many also misused the drugs. [AdSense-A] "A very large proportion and large number of adults use these […]
BREAKING: Millions Set To Keep Healthcare After All As Vote To Repeal ACA Fails
Forget politics. Independent analyses of both the House version and the Senate version of the GOP's replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) better known as Obamacare would have been a disaster for America. Anything that takes away healthcare from 22 million Americans, many of which are the poorest, sickest, oldest, and youngest members of […]
Here, heroin spares no one, not even the sheriff’s wife
(CNN)Robert Leahy was sitting on his couch, watching TV, when his wife, Gretchen, walked through the front door. It was about 10 p.m. She’d left for the grocery store hours earlier. Now, she “bumbled” about the room, Leahy says, incoherent and vacant. He’d seen her like this before. “What the f**k are you doing?” he […]