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Greenbrook TMS, a Nasdaq-traded provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder valued at roughly $200 million, is taking a leap into the psychedelics world.

New FTC chair Lina Khan said companies that prevent the so-called right to repair are making products more expensive and squashing small repair businesses.

Thanks to the American Rescue Plan (ARP) passed in March of this year, more gig workers are enrolling in health insurance plans via Healthcare.gov—and they’re paying less for it.

Joseph O’Connor, arrested Wednesday in Spain, worked with several other young men to solicit $124,000 from scam solicitations posted from celebrities’ accounts.

Among the investment firms making serious moves in digital health and engaging in what Rock Health refers to as “blitz-funding” is Tiger Global, a tech-focused firm that’s participated in 14 investments for US digital health startups in the first half of 2021 alone.

Biomarkers are badly needed that allow hospitals to allocate scarce resources to save the lives of those most likely to die. A recent report from Zheng et al notes the observation of such a marker in severe Covid-19 patients: a small RNA fragment known as microRNA.

Banning the Pegasus spyware app from being exported is “doubtful,” however, an unnamed source told Reuters.

Carbon Health cofounders Eren Bali and Caesar Djavaherian expect the company could go public as soon as next year.

Anthem’s membership grew by 1.9 million in the second quarter thanks to a big increase in enrollment in its Medicaid plans as the pandemic drags on.

Using proprietary engineered nanoparticles, automation instrumentation, consumables, and a software suite, Seer can perform deep proteomic analysis at scale in a matter of hours.

For Hispanic and Black Americans, life expectancy dropped by three years, largely driven by Covid-19 deaths.

An estimated 1.5 million children worldwide have experienced the death of a parent, custodial grandparent, or other relative who cared for them as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new study.

The United Kingdom is today engaged in a dangerous and very likely deadly experiment, as it eases nearly all Covid-19 restrictions across the country. The move threatens to impact the entire world.

His plea deal spares him from a death sentence but puts him in prison for life.

Burnout in healthcare is at an all-time high.

Second-generation vaccines will ideally protect against new SARS-CoV-2 variants and be cheaper and easier to manufacture than their predecessors. Two subunit vaccines that performed well in mice and nonhuman primates might fit the bill.

Athletes have already complained of unsafe conditions and some events have been moved to cooler parts of Japan to safeguard competitors.