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America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects
American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)
Britain doubles down on the life-sciences industry
The government vows to clear hurdles so the sector can flourish. Will it be enough? Official efforts to boost the life sciences sector are welcome,... (2023)
Where Will AI Have the Biggest Impact? Healthcare. | Andreessen Horowitz
We believe that any new technology has to be 10 times better to successfully displace the last one – marginal improvements aren’t worth the effort.... (2023)
The Opportunity for Healthcare x Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz
The healthcare system is broken—fintech offers solutions. How technology will make healthcare more intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective. Tho... (2023)
HealthTech: Selling to SMBs, a Founder's Playbook | a16z Andreessen Horowitz
How are healthtech companies creating sustainable growth paths by selling to SMBs? Can companies solely rely on SMB sales to get to scale, or do th... (2022)
Everything You Need To Know About Zocdoc | The Motley Fool
Helping doctors and patients find each other is an essential role in the U.S. healthcare system. (2020)
12 Things To Know About Paxlovid, the Latest COVID-19 Pill > Yale Medicine
Paxlovid is an oral antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 that can be taken soon after symptoms surface to help keep high-risk patients from getting so ... (2022)
Why America Has So Few Doctors - The Atlantic
As a matter of basic economics, fewer doctors means less care and more expensive services. (2022)
Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them - Our World in Data
Randomized controlled trials are a key tool to study cause and effect. Why do they matter and how do they work? (2022)
How Pfizer made an effective anti-covid pill | MIT Technology Review
A covid pill could cut serious illnesses and help prevent the next pandemic. But it's expensive and in short supply. (2022)
Covid blueprint to transform new drugs for millions
The scientist who identified the first life-saving Covid drug will launch a project tomorrow to transform treatments for heart disease, dementia an... (2022)
Mortality in the past – around half died as children - Our World in Data
In our long history, how likely was it that our ancestors died as children? Historical studies suggest that around one-quarter of infants died in t... (2021)
HPV vaccine reduced cervical cancer rates by 87% in women, study finds - CNN
The first generation HPV vaccine cut cervical cancer rates among women by 87%, British researchers reported. (2021)
Costa Ricans Live Longer Than Us. What’s the Secret? | The New Yorker
We’ve starved our public-health sector. The Costa Rica model demonstrates what happens when you put it first. (2021)
COVID Delta Variant: Everything You Need to Know - by Tomas Pueyo - Uncharted Territories
Cases are growing exponentially across the world. Again. If you don’t know where this is going, a historical refresher might help. India has suffer... (2021)
It took a pandemic, but the US finally has (some) centralized medical data | MIT Technology Review
Throughout the pandemic, there has been serious tension between what the public wants to know and what scientists have been able to say for certain... (2021)
FDA grants historic approval to Alzheimer’s drug designed to slow cognitive decline
The landmark decision has been eagerly awaited by millions but will be hotly contested by some experts doubt the drug’s effectiveness. (2021)
Pharmaceuticals and innovation. Less buck for the bang. Are drug patents worth it?
Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)
Five reasons why you don’t need to panic about coronavirus variants | MIT Technology Review
The hype around “scariants” is overblown. But we also shouldn’t be too complacent. (2021)
Lessons learned — and forgotten — from the horrific epidemics of the U.S. Civil War
Important public health lessons from the Civil War became mainstream 20th century practices. Then many of them fell by the wayside. (2021)
Microsoft goes all in on healthcare with $19.7B Nuance acquisition – TechCrunch
When Microsoft announced it was acquiring Nuance Communications this morning for $19.7 billion, you could be excused for doing a Monday morning dou... (2021)
Human brain organoids grown in cheap 3D-printed bioreactor | New Scientist
It is now possible to grow and culture human brain tissue in a device that costs little more than the price of a cup of coffee Why?: Culturin... (2021)
Grand Rounds merges with Doctor On Demand to form multibillion-dollar digital health company
Grand Rounds CEO Owen Tripp will be chief executive of the company, which will combine online medical consultations with telehealth. (2021)
A possible new cancer treatment? Robots that attack tumors - Los Angeles Times
Chemotherapy and radiation can cause too much collateral damage to treat some brain tumors. Crumb-sized robots could be the solution. (2021)
Scientists Are Working on mRNA Vaccines for HIV, Flu, Cancer and More - POZ
The technology used in COVID-19 vaccines may also be used to prevent other viral infections and to treat cancer and multiple sclerosis. (2021)
First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech - The Academic Times
Consistently ranked as one of the leading causes of death around the world, malaria doesn’t have an effective vaccine yet. But researchers have inv... (2021)
The same covid-19 mutations are appearing in different places | Graphic detail | The Economist
Convergent evolution may make travel restrictions redundant (2021)
South African Covid variant may cut antibody protection from Pfizer vaccine by two-thirds
Study finds fall in antibody activity – but scientists say jab should still protect against severe disease and death (2021)
6 important truths about COVID-19 vaccines
With the vaccines now being administered at sites around the US, it is important to address misinformation surrounding the effort. (2021)
The Second Coming of RNA Medicines - Andreessen Horowitz
The COVID-19 vaccines were a high-stakes fulfillment of the key promise RNA companies had made — that once we know what protein needs to be targete... (2021)
Can AI Catch What Doctors Miss? | Eric Topol | TED
AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)
TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins
TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins (2023)
How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - TEDed
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can... (2022)
How aspirin was discovered - TED Ed Krishna Sudhir
4000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery: if they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain di... (2021)
Challenges in Healthcare Innovation | a16z
a16z Published on Dec 15, 2017 The U.S. spent $2.6 trillion on healthcare in 2010; this is expected to double by 2020. Why so expensive? And wh... (2018)
ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus | Episode 37 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)
The enduring mystery of long Covid - Today, Explained | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. An estimated 10 percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 experience long-haul symp... (2021)
Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Why Did the U.S. Turn Down Pfizer Vaccine Doses? - The New York Times | Podcast
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. From the start of the pandemic, the US said it was committed to ordering and stockpil... (2020)
Rapid Response: The Covid test facts every CEO needs - Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
Listen to this episode from Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman on Spotify. To safely re-open a business, you need more than masks. Cov... (2020)
The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1) - Andreessen Horowitz
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about h... (2020)
The truth about herd immunity - Vox | Today, Explained Podcast
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Some people think it’s the only way out of the pandemic. Those people are very wrong. Tran... (2020)
a16z Podcast: On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond
WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from 12 years of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or so? W... (2020)
"My Lungs Are Still Not the Same": The Long Road to Recovery from COVID-19 | The Takeaway
The Takeaway hears from former guest David Lat on his experience recovering from COVID-19. (2020)
a16z Podcast: Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology
On the podcast we speak with Trevor Bedford, Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about changes in scientific communi... (2020)
a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health – Andreessen Horowitz
Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit health organization that provides healthcare and coverage w... (2018)
a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice – Andreessen Horowitz
There’s been a lot of talk about technology — and AI, deep learning, and machine learning specifically — finally reaching the healthcare sector. Bu... (2017)
medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for Health Sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution (2020)
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international respo... (2020)