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By Jonah Comstock | 03:53 am | April 25, 2017
UK-based health chatbot company babylon, which raised $25 million in early 2016, has raised an additional $60 million in funding. While the company didn't disclose the investors, TechCrunch and Financial Times report that the round included Sawiris, an Egyptian billionaire business family, NNS holdings, Vostok New Ventures, and existing backers Kinnevik. They are also reporting that the company's...
By Jonah Comstock | 01:04 pm | July 28, 2015
A couple of new reports from across the pond illustrate the ways doctors and patients are thinking about digital health in England, as well as in France and Germany.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:37 am | May 05, 2015
The Mersey Burns app is mentioned by name in the RCP guidelines.
By Jonah Comstock | 08:46 am | December 02, 2014
Google-backed 23andMe is finally relaunching its mail-order personal genome service -- just not in the United States.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:29 am | October 22, 2014
A new report from Kantar Media estimates that the value of the health and fitness wearable technology market in Great Britain is between £225 million and £375 million, or $360 million to $601 million.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:55 am | October 20, 2014
Although relatively few cases have been reported outside West Africa, Ebola is both a top headline and a public health concern in the Western world, with eight confirmed cases in the United States.