Health/Life Sciences – Page 37 of 54

Drug giant Merck pays $300M to acquire Seattle biotech company Immune Design

Merck, one of the world’s largest drugmakers, agreed to buy Seattle-based biotechnology company Immune Design for $300 million in cash.… Read More

Amazon’s new healthcare joint venture aims to reinvent benefits, cut drug costs and boost primary care

Insurance benefits, primary care and pharmacy costs will be at the center of the healthcare joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan… Read More

Univ. of Washington Medicine exposes information of nearly 1 million patients due to database error

A database error late last year exposed the personal information of nearly a million patients, University of Washington Medicine said… Read More

University of Washington researchers create massive genetic map of organ development

It takes three weeks for a mouse to develop from a fertilized egg into a newborn. In that time, there… Read More

Microsoft teams up with global health partners to spot rare diseases faster using new technology

Patients with a rare disease often face a long and painful road to an accurate diagnosis. The process takes five years on… Read More

Seattle biotech startup Good Therapeutics raises $11M to make smart cancer therapies

Good Therapeutics, a new Seattle biotech startup that aims to develop protein drugs that act only when needed, raised $11… Read More

After twin-astronaut tests, NASA readies new wave of studies on space health risks

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Almost three years after NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned from spending nearly a year in orbit, researchers are… Read More

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Bill Gates explains why putting America first means giving a damn about the rest of the world, too

With a wave of nationalism sweeping the globe, Bill Gates contends that doing right by the country starts with helping… Read More

Providence St. Joseph Health acquires Seattle blockchain startup that helps hospitals get paid

Health care provider Providence St. Joseph Health acquired Seattle startup Lumedic, which uses blockchain to collect payments more efficiently. The process… Read More

Seattle Genetics shares slump after losses grow

Seattle Genetics on Thursday reported higher-than-expected losses for the fourth quarter, sending shares down 8 percent in after-hours trading. Quarterly… Read More

KenSci raises $22M to help healthcare companies predict when patients will get sick and lower costs

KenSci has raised an additional $22 million to fuel growth of its machine learning and AI-powered technology that helps health… Read More

Microsoft Healthcare reveals more of its strategy with new cloud and AI products for hospitals

Microsoft is expanding its healthcare offerings with three new tools that bring its cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities into hospitals… Read More

Naveen Jain’s wellness startup Viome to acquire Habit nutrition service from Campbell Soup Co.

Viome, a health startup from Seattle-based entrepreneur Naveen Jain, has reached an agreement to acquire personalized nutrition service Habit from… Read More

‘Batman’ tech: UW spins out new startup that uses sonar to detect opioid overdoses

An app that uses sonar to detect opioid overdoses is making the leap from research to startup mode with the… Read More

Amazon health care joint venture names Zocdoc executive as CTO, ramps up hiring

Serkan Kutan, an Amazon and Microsoft veteran who was most recently chief technology officer at medical appointment booking company Zocdoc, has… Read More

Sentinel Healthcare raises $2M to monitor hypertension in round led by PSL Ventures

Medical data startup Sentinel Healthcare has raised $2 million in funding round led by PSL Ventures, Pioneer Square Lab’s investment arm.… Read More

Super surgeons: Proprio aims to bring computer vision and AI to the operating room

Seattle startup Proprio Vision wants to overhaul how surgeons see. At least, that’s the admittedly ambitious first step toward its… Read More

Magnolia Medical raises $20M to cut down errors in blood tests

Medical device maker Magnolia Medical raised $20 million to expand its platform for sepsis testing accuracy and to develop new… Read More

Seattle startup raises cash for app that gives patients control of their medical records

As part of a growing push to let patients own their medical history, digital health startup Vyrty recently launched a mobile… Read More

UnitedHealth sues exec for taking trade secrets to Amazon health care joint venture

Amazon’s joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase is just getting started, but it’s already rattling health care giants.… Read More

Got the flu? Seattle wants to swab your nose for a massive health data project

Calling all feverish, coughing, achy Seattleites: Your germs could help prevent the next big pandemic. At least, that’s the hope… Read More

Fred Hutch researchers root out sleeping breast cancer cells to stop metastasis

Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center led by Dr. Cyrus Ghajar recently uncovered promising new science in the… Read More

Bill Gates says these technologies are helping to eradicate disease

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent 20 years and $10 billion on issues of global health. In that… Read More

Is wellness ‘dead’? This Seattle-area company just raised $22M to revive it

Seattle-area health technology company Aduro has landed a $22 million investment to help company employees “be great at anything.” The funding,… Read More

Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare

A week after unveiling a plan to reinvent grocery shopping with Kroger, Microsoft announced another major retail partnership: a seven-year… Read More

Testing Stretch 22, a new ‘stretch therapy’ startup backed by Expedia and Zillow founder Rich Barton

After two hours of pickup basketball the previous evening, I woke up on Friday morning last week feeling pretty sore.… Read More

Digital health investments hit an all-time high of $8.6B in 2018

Big deals led to a banner year for U.S. digital health investments, which shot up 21 percent to $8.6 billion… Read More

UW app emits sonar from smartphone to detect opioid overdoses by monitoring breathing rate

You may have heard of naloxone, an antidote to opioid overdoses so effective that the U.S. Surgeon General recommended people carry… Read More

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s $74B acquisition of Juno parent Celgene puts Seattle biotech world on alert

Things are a little on edge in Seattle’s biotech scene after the Jan. 3 announcement that pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb… Read More

Providence Ventures, led by ex-Amazon exec, raises second $150M fund for early stage investments

Providence Ventures has raised another $150 million fund to invest in early-stage healthcare technology companies, doubling the size of its… Read More