SoftBank’s Imaginative and prescient Fund 2 is betting on digital therapeutics—apps that operate like drugs. The Japanese investment conglomerate led a $75 million funding spherical in San Francisco-based Big Health, which makes use of cell apps to deal with sleeplessness and nervousness. The investment could also be indicative of the sorts of digital therapeutics corporations which are prone to obtain ...
The search for health fairness—when each particular person has entry to high quality care and wellness sources—can be a key theme in 2022, in response to health executives and specialists on the Fast Company Impact Council—an invitation-only collective of leaders from a variety of industries. Members shared their insights on the crucial for the healthcare business to grow to be extra ...
There are various phrases that got here to outline the world-altering 12 months 2020: Doomscrolling, social distancing, contact tracing. However as we wrap up 2021 and not far away towards 12 months three of the pandemic, many are pointing to “burnout” because the defining phrase of this 12 months. As document numbers of individuals stop their jobs this 12 months, ...
Final March, Prince Harry, now not a working royal, discovered a brand new job at a tech startup. The Duke of Sussex joined the eight-year-old San Francisco-based firm BetterUp, which offers teaching and mental health providers to companies and people and is at the moment worthd at $4.7 billion (the corporate raised $300 million in an October collection E spherical). ...
Even individuals who haven’t paid a lot consideration to the Oura good ring might know one factor about it: A complete bunch of well-known folks have been identified to put on one. The not-so-short checklist contains Jennifer Aniston, Marc Benioff, Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Arianna Huffington, Kim Kardashian, Jimmy Kimmel, and Gwyneth Paltrow, all of whom have talked about the ring publicly, ...
We’re developing on that point of 12 months that’s historically one of the most worrying, however this 12 months may have a twist: Holiday Season 2021 can be the first time that many households collect collectively since earlier than the current world health disaster. For enterprise leaders and staff throughout industries, it’s true that firms have made strides in addressing ...
The relentless culling of brick-and-mortar retail continues: On Thursday, drugstore megachain CVS revealed it’ll close 900 locations over the subsequent three years. The closures, the primary of that are scheduled for spring 2022, will quantity to about 300 per yr, with the overall quantity representing roughly 9% of CVS’s 10,000 shops nationwide. Going ahead, the corporate mentioned it’ll divide shops ...
The youngsters should not okay. Suicide makes an attempt have been up 50% amongst teen ladies final winter throughout the pandemic, whereas as many as 54% of teenagers reported having suicidal ideas in early 2021. In flip, three main pediatric establishments have declared a nationwide emergency in youngster and adolescent well being. And a startup known as BeMe—constructed by minds ...
The digital world is always evolving—Fb is Meta now!—but web search stays a magic field the place we sort questions and solutions simply seem on the display screen. Critics say this disconnect has led to cluttered design, adverts camouflaged as search results, even a search algorithm that some say reveals indicators of damage: ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger recently tweeted he ...
In the post-pandemic world, mental well-being in the office ought to be greater than a security web or medical profit. It’s a driver of shareholder worth and productiveness, and significant in the battle for expertise. Organizations that crack the code of well-being on this new paradigm of hybrid work—banishing the outdated stigma round mental health and enabling everybody to present ...