Watch: The Tug-of-War Over Taxpayer Dollars
Podcast host Julie Rovner chats with Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a top Democrat on health issues, about President Donald Trump’s stewardship of federal spending and the effectiveness of the 988 Suicide…
May 2026
The Side Effects of Debt and Financial Stress Add Up to a Public Health Crisis in America
Financial stress and debt take are now an American public health problem, we realize in the report, Rising debt is taking a toll on Americans’ financial and mental health from…
Nourish Raises $100M to Expand Nation’s Largest Dietitian-Led Virtual Clinic
What You Should Know Nourish—the country’s largest dietitian-led virtual metabolic clinic—disclosed a $100M Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures, accelerating its total capital raised to $215M. The round…
Commure Secures $70M to Drive 85% Autonomous Revenue Cycle Execution
What You Should Know Commure, an AI platform for healthcare operations, secured a $70M financing round at a $7 billion post-money valuation led by General Catalyst, with participation from Sequoia…
Century Health Raises $5M for CHARM AI Platform to Accelerate Life Sciences Research
What You Should Know Century Health has closed an oversubscribed $5M seed financing round led by Origin Ventures, bringing its total funding to an industry-accelerated position. The platform’s proprietary Century…
Vocal Biomarkers: Helping Clinicians Detect What Patients Hesitate to Share
Five years into caring for a patient, a primary care physician saw her again shortly after she delivered her first child. The visit was scheduled as a routine six-week newborn…
Efforts To Understand the Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump
The data behind alcohol-related traffic deaths is well studied. Less understood is the toll of vehicle deaths involving drugs or a combination of drugs and alcohol. Attempts to fix that…
Eroding ACA Enrollment Portends Higher Insurance Rates
An uptick in people skipping Obamacare premium payments in many states suggests the Affordable Care Act’s rising costs — driven partly by lower subsidies to help people buy plans —…
Wheel and b.well Connected Health to Launch AI-First Virtual Care Infrastructure
What You Should Know Strategic Collaboration: Wheel and b.well Connected Health have announced a strategic partnership to create a turnkey infrastructure for AI-native and consumer-driven healthcare experiences. Platform Integration: The…
Reimagining Medical Devices in the AI Era: The 3 Structural Shifts Driving Venture-Scale Growth
What You Should Know: In their newly released whitepaper, Medical Devices in the AI Era, Aegis Ventures outlines how the medical device sector has historically underperformed in venture portfolios, remaining…