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Virtual Care Startup Raises $20 Million To Transform Behavioral Health For Kids

Brightline co-founder and CEO Naomi Allen is building a platform for families based on personal experience.

This Big Data Startup Raised $12 Million To Speed Up Clinical Trials For Coronavirus Research

Cloud company Castor is powering 4,000 trials across 90 countries, including the World Health Organization’s Solidarity trial to discover Covid-19 treatments.

Meet The Forgotten Female Scientist Who Debunked Theories Of Male Superiority

Leta Stetter Hollingworth was a trailblazing psychologist and champion of women’s rights. But a century after the 19th Amendment, equality has a long way to go.

The Government’s ‘Shark Tank’-Style Coronavirus Testing Challenge Awards $250M To 7 Companies

The National Institutes of Health negotiated contracts with companies including Mammoth Biosciences and Ginkgo Bioworks to help scale up their Covid-19 testing technologies.

Caption Health Raises $53M To ‘Democratize’ Heart Scans With AI

Links between coronavirus and heart damage are accelerating the need for faster heart ultrasound results.

Exclusive: Endpoint Health Launches To Bring Targeted Therapies To Critically Ill Patients

With $12 million in funding, the company is building artificial intelligence software, diagnostic tests and partnerships with pharma companies to match patients with the best treatments.

This Startup Might Finally Cure Sickle Cell Disease—After A Century Of Racist Neglect

The painful blood disorder, which mostly affects Black people, is just one of thousands of rare diseases that could be cured by Beam Therapeutics’ revolutionary gene editing technology.

BrightInsight Raises $40 Million To Help Speed Up Digital Therapeutics Development

The company’s software platform helps companies like Roche, AstraZeneca and Novo Nordisk navigate the complex digital health security and regulatory landscape.

Exclusive: Health Cloud Company Abacus Insights Raises $35M Boosted By Federal Rule Change

Founder Dr. Minal Patel aims to harness data to help health plans improve patient outcomes and lower costs.

How To Safely Protest, Rally And Vote During The Coronavirus Pandemic

Wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands. Vote-by-mail is your safest bet.