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Women’s health app Flo picks up $50M in fresh funding to fuel R&D, rapid growth
Popular women’s health app Flo just got more personal as it gains traction in the femtech industry. In its latest financing, Flo secured $50 million, the company announced Thursday. The series B funding round was led by VNV Global and Target Global and brings its total capital raised to $65 million. The startup is now valued at $800 million, according to company executives. The financing will be used to enhance the app’s personalization capabilities and provide users with advanced insights and patterns to their menstrual cycles and overall health. The app tracks cycles and symptom patterns, using artificial intelligence to … Read more
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Autoimmune diseases may be rising for 9/11 survivors. But the government hasn’t acknowledged a link.
Since then, six petitions to the World Trade Center Health Program have asked to add autoimmune diseases to the list, but federal health officials have denied all of them for insufficient evidence, most recently in 2017. A spokesperson for the health program, which is run by a division of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, said in a statement that previous petitions to add autoimmune diseases to the list of covered conditions haven’t met the “threshold of being substantially likely to be causally associated with 9/11 exposures.” Wilkenfeld said: … Read more
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HEALTHY LIVING: A rewarding health career | Lifestyle
This month’s column is a tandem effort by Finger Lakes Community Health employees Jamie Jeffery, LPN, and Millie Melton, Regional Medical Health Center site manager, both of whom talk about the rewards of working in healthcare. Did you think a healthcare job could be so rewarding? Some would think that working in healthcare during the pandemic would be a nightmare. Some wouldn’t consider healthcare at all. However, we’re here to say that it isn’t for everyone, but it could be for you. For us, it’s the best job we’ve had. Both of us have worked at Finger Lakes Community Health … Read more
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Patients burdened by administrative hassles that delay care, survey shows
Navigating the labyrinthine U.S. healthcare system is so challenging for patients that it leads to delayed or foregone medical care, new research shows. Twenty-five percent of insured, working age adults have either postponed or gone without necessary healthcare because of administrative obstacles, according to a study published in the journal Health Services Research Thursday. Nearly three-quarters of patients reported undertaking tasks like scheduling appointments, seeking health information, obtaining prior authorizations and resolving problems with bills and premiums. The researchers used data from the Urban Institute’s March 2019 Health Reform Monitoring Survey. “Over time we’ve increased the role of the consumer … Read more
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Survey Finds Consumers Continue to Struggle to Afford Healthcare Amid Pandemic
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Black Opioid Overdose Deaths Are Increasing Faster Than Whites, Study Finds : Shots
New research shows racial disparities in opioid overdose rates, with the rate of deaths among Black people growing faster than in other groups. The researchers are calling for expanding access to drug treatment and to education on how to prevent overdoses using the antidote drug, naloxone. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images New research shows racial disparities in opioid overdose rates, with the rate of deaths among Black people growing faster than in other groups. The researchers are calling for expanding access to drug treatment and to education on how to prevent overdoses using the antidote … Read more
