Eloisa Mendoza has spent 18 years helping people who aren’t fluent in English navigate complex legal documents. She guides them through stressful events and accompanying dense paperwork, such as citizenship applications, divorces, and birth certificate translations. Mendoza works in Elko, Nevada, situated in a remote region in the state’s northeastern corner. Her work has become…
“The future is here,” the email announced. Hilda Jaffe, then 88, was letting her children know she planned to sell the family home in Verona, New Jersey. She’d decided to begin life anew — on her own — in a one-bedroom apartment in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. Fourteen years later, Jaffe, now 102, still lives…
Shama Rathi MD is the co-founder of LunaJoy, a mental health company that works exclusively for women. It started with pregnancy (pre- and post- partum) and now is working with women in midlife for nearly a third of its cases. Shama believes that women have been ignored and LunaJoy has built out specific care pathways…
This is a question I can’t answer with certainty. Patients often believe that since I’m part of the health-care system, I would know. But I don’t, not as a doctor — and not even when I’m a patient myself. In the United States, health insurance is so extraordinarily complicated, with different insurers offering different plans,…
Cala Health closed a $50 million funding round. The Silicon Valley-based company sells an FDA-cleared wearable device that temporarily relieves hand tremors in people with essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. The post Cala Health Snags $50M for At-Home Tremor Relief Therapy appeared first on MedCity News.
Results from the Phase 3 DREAMM-7 study show GSK drug Blenrep is helping multiple myeloma patients live longer compared to treatment with blockbuster Johnson & Johnson drug Darzalex. The data, presented Monday during the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, are part of a submission now under FDA review that could lead to…
Soda Health’s $50 million Series B financing round was led by General Catalyst and included participation from former Humana CEO Bruce Broussard, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Define Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners USA and SVB Capital. The post Soda Health Secures $50M to Grow Smart Benefits Platform appeared first on MedCity News.
Police have arrested a suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Swiss Medtech Company Medacta teamed up with Geisinger to begin providing the world’s first, lifetime guarantee on shoulder replacement surgeries. The post A Lifetime Guarantee on a Shoulder Implant? This Device Maker Is Offering It Through Geisinger appeared first on MedCity News.
Carta Healthcare buys UPMC-backed Realize Intelligence, which focuses on data abstraction in oncology