Gun violence is a public health crisis, and lawmakers are taking small steps toward treating it that way, said Kris Brown, president of gun violence prevention nonprofit Brady United. But there is still a long road ahead in the fight to protect American communities against gun-related injuries and fatalities, she said.
Women’s health has been historically underfunded — in terms of both research dollars and venture capital investment. Lawmakers can’t craft effective policy nor can startups innovate in the women’s health space without good data and research, said panelists at a recent healthcare conference in Washington, D.C.
The high-technology world is becoming so enmeshed in the healthcare world that it is becoming hard to tell where the lab ends and the coder begins. And the promise is intriguing.
FasterCures, part of the Milken Institute dedicated to improving drug development by encouraging greater patient involvement is searching for digital health entrepreneurs to pitch at its upcoming conference, Partnering for Cures. The group is looking for collaboration opportunities between biotech and digital health, partly to find more effective ways to improve clinical trial recruitment. Entrepreneurs […]
