Top news of the week: 28.12.2021.
Healthcare
23 Dec 2021 GlobalData predicts future healthtech unicorns
Healthcare startups are constantly seeking to embrace emerging technologies to improve efficiency, increase customer engagement, and remain competitive. Against this backdrop, the Unicorn ...
Pfizer pill becomes 1st US-authorized home COVID treatment
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of ...
Physician-Scientist-Biotech VC: Vineeta Agarwala on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Vineeta Agarwala. Vineeta is a general partner with Andreesen Horowitz’s bio fund. Vineeta has spent a lot of time on the front lines of an explosion in ...
Here’s Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard to Find
Months-long silences. Mysterious rejections. Here’s what's behind the shortages of a critical tool for ending the pandemic.
From protégée to whistleblower: A former Theranos scientist says Elizabeth Holmes should ‘come forward and apologize’
Erika Cheung joined Theranos fresh out of college as a “starry-eyed’’ 22-year-old chemist and biologist. Seven months later, she blew the whistle.