Author Archives: health

6 kids dead, 12 sickened in viral outbreak at New Jersey pediatric center

An outbreak of a viral illness has killed six pediatric patients and sickened 12 others at a New Jersey rehabilitation facility as health officials continue to investigate the cause. The Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, located in Haskell, has been instructed by the state’s health department not to admit any new patients until the… Read More »

Fasting to Reverse Diabetes

Diabetes is a very common condition in the United States, with more than 100 million adults estimated to be diabetic or pre-diabetic. To avoid a future filled with insulin injections, many people try to find non-pharmaceutical ways to deal with diabetes. To that end, there is new hope coming from research that suggests fasting could… Read More »

Rare disease analytics platform Raremark raises $3.9M

This morning London-based data platform Raremark announced that it landed $ 3.9 million (£3 million) in a funding round led by AlbionVC and Ananda Ventures, with participation from Oltre Ventures and Cass Entrepreneurship Fund. The platform, which focuses on rare diseases, plans on using the new money to build a patient engagement and data analysis… Read More »