Scene Health Secures $17.7 Million Series B Financing Led by ABS Capital Partners
Funding Will Grow Medication Adherence Services for Medicaid and Other Under-Resourced Populations
Scene Health, the leading medication engagement company, has closed an oversubscribed $17.7 million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital.
The investment is the latest validation of Scene Health’s unique video-based platform, which empowers people to take medication properly through person-to-person connections, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ABS Capital Partners Cal Wheaton CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Chronic Conditions Claritas Health Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Healthworx Kapor Capital Medicai Source Type: blogs
State of the Art: New Crystallography Equipment Aids Science and the Study of Artifacts
Upgrading X-ray crystallography equipment at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville has had an unexpected benefit: enabling analyses that could help art museums authenticate, restore, and learn more about their pieces.
Two copies of a protein (pink and purple) produced by the hepatitis C virus interacting with the same strand of DNA (green). This structure was solved using equipment at the University of Arkansas X-ray crystallography center. Credit: PDB 2F55.
Scientists use X-ray crystallography to determine the detailed 3D structures of molecules. In biomedical contexts, researchers often apply X-ray crystallogra...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - July 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Molecular Structures Tools and Techniques Cool Tools/Techniques Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 26th March, 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/55-of-telehealth-providers-frustrated-with-overblown-patient-expectations55% of Telehealth Providers Frustrated With Overblown Patient ExpectationsProviders also cited their ability to provide quality care and technical difficulties as among their top frustrations with telehealth, a new survey shows.ByAnuja VaidyaMarch 18, 202...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Senators Are Right to Seek End to Three ‐Month Celibacy Requirement For Gay and Bisexual Blood Donors
Jeffrey A. SingerTwenty ‐two Democratic U.S. senatorssent a letter today to Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and Acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock urging the FDA toend its policy of deferring blood donations from men who have sex with men until 3 months after the last sexual encounter. The senators argued it is not compatible with the scientific evidence and needlessly prevents people from donating blood, especially at a time such as now, when there is a national blood shortage. In 2020 alone, the Red Cross had to cancel almost2700 blood drives due...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
How Big Pharma Bought Big Media for $6 Billion: The Unintended Consequences of Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising
Media, whether broadcast, streamed, or print, is a lifeline of information for most Americans. Updates on the pandemic, results of an election, knowing whether you are in the path of an oncoming hurricane or snowstorm—we are alerted by news reports and thereby dependent on the factual information they provide. Media informs, shapes opinions, keeps us out of harm’s way. Despite the public pummeling media has received over the past few years, media remains the means through which Americans view much of their world. What the media reports—or does not report—is therefore crucial to shaping opinion and behavior.
There...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 18, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Hepatitis C
is a recently discovered disease. Harvey J. Alter identified the variant form of Hepatitis during the 70s, which then became known as a ‘non-A, non-B Hepatitis (NANBH)’. In the 1980s, Michael Houghton and his team isolated the genome of the new virus, and it was named ‘Hepatitis C’. Finally, in 1997 Charles M. Rice proved that the virus is a disease agent, capable of acting alone to cause Hepatitis.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the virus. Their contributions (illustrated below) have led to improved unde...
Source: GIDEON blog - November 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
Hepatitis A in the United States
Few Americans are aware of a major epidemic that has taken hold of large areas of their country in recent years – by a disease that is easily diagnosed and prevented. Sadly, public – and even professional interest in these events have been overshadowed by COVID-19.
AN UPTICK IN CASES
Hepatitis A had been largely under control until three years ago and can be easily prevented through the use of a safe and effective vaccine.
From January 2017 to January 2019, at least 26 separate outbreaks were reported, to a total of 11,628 cases and 99 deaths, nationwide. Homeless individuals and users of illicit dru...
Source: GIDEON blog - October 21, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Nobel Prize for discovery of hepatitis C virus
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles Rice for their work leading to the discovery of hepatitis C virus. To me this prize makes a great deal of sense because each of the recipients produced key sequential discoveries, all of which were needed to find a […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 8, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information 5-1-1 hepatitis C virus infectious viral DNA clone Nobel Prize viruses Source Type: blogs
TWiV 670: Coronavirus vaccine preparedness with Kizzmekia Corbett
Kizzmekia Corbett joins TWiV to review her career and her work on respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus, and coronaviruses and coronavirus vaccines, including her role in development and testing of a spike-encoding mRNA vaccine, and then we review the Nobel Prize for discovery of hepatitis C virus. Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 670 (76 MB .mp3, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 8, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology coronavirus COVID-19 influenza virus mRNA-1273 pandemic prefusion conformation respiratory syncytial virus SARS-CoV-2 spike vaccine viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Discovery of Hepatitis C Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Medgadget would like to congratulate Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice on receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in discovering the hepatitis C virus.
Hepatitis C, a virus that infects liver cells and causes inflammation, certain cancers, and lymphomas, is fairly widespread among certain groups of people, and until its discovery it was impossible to screen donated blood for its presence. People were getting infected with something that resembled hepatitis B, but screening for hepatitis B would not detect this still unknown agent.
At the National Institutes of Health,...
Source: Medgadget - October 5, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Genetics Medicine News Source Type: blogs
TWiV 649: Ohio State viral
Vincent visits Ohio State University (March 2020) and speaks with Shan-Lu, David, Amanda, Mark, Matt, Chris, and Qiuhong about their careers and their work on retroviruses, hepatitis C virus, coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses, and environmental viruses. Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 650 (63 MB .mp3, 105 min)Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 4, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology coronavirus COVID-19 hepatitis C virus HTLV pandemic plant viruses retrovirus SARS-CoV-2 viral viroids Source Type: blogs
My professional life battling an RNA virus
I feel like I am reliving a bad dream. The race to find a treatment and/or cure to SARS-CoV-2 is reminiscent of decades of practicing gastroenterology while hepatitis C roamed the hospital wards as a death sentence for many. I found myself recently recalling a patient whose story ends with science finding a cure. As […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 12, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lawrence-hurwitz" rel="tag" > Lawrence Hurwitz, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Gastroenterology Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
More sexual partners, more cancer?
Two headlines caught my eye recently:
The relationship between chronic diseases and number of sexual partners: an exploratory analysis
and
Study warns more sex might mean higher likelihood for cancer
It may be hard to believe, but both of these refer to same medical research. I’m not sure which one I like better. The first one is the actual title of the research, which provides no information about its findings. The second one is a newspaper headline. It cuts right to the chase about the study’s main findings. While it’s much more specific — and alarming — it is also misleading.
Is there a link between the number...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Cancer Relationships Sex Sexual Conditions Source Type: blogs
U=U: Ending stigma and empowering people living with HIV
Today, about 1.1 million people in the US are living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). Every year, almost 40,000 people are diagnosed with HIV. A diagnosis of HIV was once presumed to be fatal, and many lived in fear of transmitting the virus to others. This contributed to decades of stigma for those living with HIV.
What is the U=U campaign?
U=U means “undetectable equals untransmittable.” More specifically, it means that people living with HIV who have an undetectable level of virus in their blood due to treatment are unable to transmit the virus to others.
The U=U campaign hopes to spread awareness that medic...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rose McKeon Olson, MD Tags: Adolescent health Infectious diseases Men's Health Sex Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Drugs for COVID-19: A Publishing Epidemic
As of April 9, PubMed listed 2,868 scientific publications which incorporate the word “COVID”. 323 of these (11.3%) were related to drugs under study for treatment of the disease. No fewer than thirty-one such drugs had been proposed since this pandemic first appeared on the planet four months earlier.
Graph 1 depicts the cumulative numbers of COVID-19 infection (per 100,000 global population) and introductions of relevant drugs into the Literature during February 14 to April 3. Note that both increased by a factor of approximately 16-fold during this period.
In a...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 12, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Uri Blackman Tags: Epidemiology Graphs Source Type: blogs
