Teladoc buys mental health company UpLift to help boost struggling BetterHelp unit

Teladoc buys mental health company UpLift to help boost struggling BetterHelp unit

Teladoc Health Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 31, 2024. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Virtual care provider Teladoc Health, which has seen its market value plummet over the past five years, said Wednesday that it acquired mental health company UpLift for $30 million in cash. … Read more

GE HealthCare beats on earnings, slashes full year outlook due to tariffs

GE HealthCare beats on earnings, slashes full year outlook due to tariffs

GE HealthCare reported better-than-expected first-quarter results on Wednesday, but the company slashed its annual forecast to account for the impact of President Donald Trump’s far-reaching reciprocal tariff policy. Shares of GE HealthCare were up 3% Wednesday. Here’s how the company did: Earnings per share: $1.01 adjusted vs. 91 cents expected by LSEG. Revenue: $4.78 billion … Read more

Oracle engineers caused days-long software outage at U.S. hospitals

Oracle engineers caused days-long software outage at U.S. hospitals

Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2018 conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle engineers mistakenly triggered a five-day software outage at a number of Community Health Systems hospitals, causing the facilities to temporarily … Read more

Brain implant cleared by FDA for Precision Neuroscience, a Musk Neuralink rival

Brain implant cleared by FDA for Precision Neuroscience, a Musk Neuralink rival

Precision Neuroscience’s Layer 7 Cortical Interface Courtesy of Precision Neuroscience Neurotech startup Precision Neuroscience on Thursday announced that a core component of its brain implant system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a major win for the four-year-old company. Precision is building a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, which is a … Read more

23andMe bankruptcy under congressional investigation for customer data

23andMe bankruptcy under congressional investigation for customer data

Signage at 23andMe headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating 23andMe‘s decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has expressed concern that its sensitive genetic data is “at risk of being compromised,” CNBC has … Read more

UnitedHealth is making struggling doctors repay loans issued after last year’s cyberattack

UnitedHealth is making struggling doctors repay loans issued after last year’s cyberattack

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 1, 2024. Kent Nishimura | Getty Images Following the massive cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare unit last year, the company launched a temporary funding assistance program to help medical practices with their short-term cash flow needs, offering no-interest … Read more

Digital health startup Transcarent takes Accolade private in $621 million deal

Digital health startup Transcarent takes Accolade private in 1 million deal

Glen Tullman, chairman and chief executive officer at Livongo Health Inc., speaks during the 2015 Bloomberg Technology Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Digital health startup Transcarent on Tuesday announced it completed its acquisition of Accolade in a deal valued at roughly $621 million.  Transcarent … Read more

Hims & Hers shares rise as company adds new weight-loss medications to platform

Hims & Hers shares rise as company adds new weight-loss medications to platform

The Hims app arranged on a smartphone in New York on Feb. 12, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hims & Hers Health shares rose more than 5% on Tuesday after the company announced patients can access Eli Lilly‘s weight loss medication Zepbound and diabetes drug Mounjaro, as well as the generic injection … Read more

Amazon Pharmacy medical chief Gupta is latest health exec to leave company

Amazon Pharmacy medical chief Gupta is latest health exec to leave company

Vin Gupta, then-chief medical officer at Amazon Pharmacy, speaks during Amazon’s “Delivering the Future” event at the company’s BFI1 Fulfillment Center, Robotics Research and Development Hub in Sumner, Washington, on Oct. 18, 2023. Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty Images Amazon has lost the chief medical officer of its pharmacy division after five years at … Read more

23andMe co-founder lashes out at CEO Wojcicki after bankruptcy filing, says board lacked oversight

23andMe co-founder lashes out at CEO Wojcicki after bankruptcy filing, says board lacked oversight

A view of 23andMe headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, United States on March 25, 2025.  Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty Images 23andMe co-founder Linda Avey took to social media on Wednesday to express frustration about the fate of the once-thriving genetics testing company that spiraled into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. Avey helped launch … Read more