Also — I'd like to welcome Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce to the Business Insider team! Catherine is our new UK-based healthcare reporter.
Catherine is a practicing medical doctor who's been working in the National Health Service, and we're so excited to have her covering the business of healthcare, focusing on European-based companies especially. Be sure to say hi and send tips her way at [email protected]!
A health care worker injects a patient with a syringe of the phase 3 Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine trial in Turkey in October 2020. Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Andrew Dunn spent the day breaking down what you need to know about the vaccine — how it works and what its limitations are — and getting experts on the phone to chat about what the road ahead might look like.
Ever wonder what key employees at digital health companies are paid?
Well, Megan Hernbroth may have some insight for you. This week, she took a look at the salaries digital health companies pay their workers.
Working with our data team's Maddy Simpson, Megan's analysis pulled from key team positions like scientists and engineers, drawing from a database of salaries companies pay foreign workers to work here in the US.
When he isn't reporting on the ins and outs of vaccine updates, Andrew has been taking a closer look at Humanigen, a tiny biotech startup you might know by its former name, KaloBios.
In the time since its brush with Martin Shkreli in 2015, Humanigen has rebounded from bankruptcy and got the backing of the National Institutes of Health for its potential coronavirus drug.
Andrew has the scoop on how Humanigen got to this point.
If your newsfeeds are as full of news that coronavirus case counts are surging and vaccine results as mine are, you might've missed another big healthcare story that unfolded this week.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the Affordable Care Act. While the highest court in the US hasn't made any decisions yet on the fate of the law, Kimberly Leonard has the story on why healthcare investors are feeling optimistic.
Reading through Shelby's reporting, it was a reminder of just how much perceptions on telemedicine have shifted in the past year. It's another reminder of just how much the pandemic is reshaping healthcare here in the US.
On the other hand, health insurers' third quarter earnings did serve as a reminder that people have been going back to the doctor.
A key marker of medical spending increased this quarter compared to the second quarter, according to Shelby's analysis.
Blake Dodge has the full list, complete with some speculation that Amazon has big ambitions to get more involved with how people across the country go to the doctor.
I'm officially moving into my Denver house this week! For those who've made any moves amid the pandemic: Any pro tips on doing the typical stock-up store runs as case counts go up? I have a feeling a lot of curbside pickups are in my future.
Be sure to send your tips (home improvement or otherwise!), holiday-planning quandaries, and general healthcare questions to me at [email protected]. And you can reach the entire healthcare team at [email protected].
