Category Archives: News

Crossover Health snags online-only primary care platform Sherpaa Health

Dive Brief: Crossover Health, which provides health services to self-insured employers and runs Apple’s onsite clinic, has acquired Sherpaa Health, a virtual primary care provider with employer and retail members across the U.S. Scott Shreeve, CEO and founder of Crossover Health, said the deal furthers the company’s goal to “design and deliver technology-enabled primary care throughout… Read More »

Mylan quarterly profit, 2019 forecast miss Wall Street estimates — stock tanks

Generic drugmaker Mylan on Tuesday reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter profit and forecast 2019 earnings well below Wall Street estimates, as it grapples with significant problems at its Morgantown, West Virginia, plant. Mylan said the lower forecast was due to higher projected sales, marketing and research and development costs, and its shares fell about 10 percent. Mylan… Read More »

Three years after undergoing gene therapy, his ‘last shot’ hit the target

Brenden was the first patient enrolled in what became a nine-patient, four-center trial that also involved patients at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. The trial, funded by the NIH and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine,… Read More »

The Best Mattress for Every Kind of Man

A whole constellation of things factor into a solid night’s sleep: what you did at the gym that day, how long ago you finished up an emergency latte, how late you stayed up watching Chuck pre-zzzs, and, of course, your mattress. In fact, more than 75 percent of those surveyed by the National Sleep Foundation… Read More »