Rock Weekly: Calling all angels
December 3rd, 2012
If your head was spinning a bit this week, you weren’t the only one. AliveCor got FDA approval, Basis finally launched, Scanadu’s tricorder will be on sale by the end of 2013, and there was a whole host of news and opinions on the regulatory front.
Deep breaths, and read on.
Headlines
World AIDS Day: No Vaccine Yet, But Recent Antibody Discoveries Spark Hope
International Business Times
GPU Grid Helping to Find AIDS Cure
EE Times
Insurance Surcharges Will Fund Most Online Exchanges Created Under Health Law
Kaiser Health News
US Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Myriad Patent Case Again
GenomeWeb
Google Adds Key Facts About Medicines To Its Knowledge Graph Results
TechCrunch
Basis Commercially Launches Wrist-worn, Healthy Habits Device
MobiHealthNews
A Gadget that Makes You the Doctor
Technology Review
The Best Medicine For Fixing The Modern Hospital
Fast Company
Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?
New York Times
Rock Health in the News
The Dream of the Medical Tricorder
The Economist
Video Fitness Startup Founders Shake Up the Act of Shaping Up
Wall Street Journal
Ginger.io Raises $6.5M Series A
BostInno
Funding & Acquisitions
Hello Health Gets $11.5M to Banish Paper Records From Your Doctor’s Office
VentureBeat
Obvious-Incubated Lift Lands $2.5M From Spark Capital, SV Angel To Help You Build Good Habits
TechCrunch
iRhythm Scores $1.5M, Study Support from California HealthCare Foundation
MobiHealthNews
HealthTap Buys Q&A Site Avvo Health
GigaOm