Pennsylvania-based vitamin and supplement retailer GNC announced its healthcare division, GNC Health, is expanding its offerings to include virtual care services for individuals and families via three membership plans.
Consumers can purchase a GNC Health Basic plan for $34.99 per month, which offers unlimited access to free virtual urgent and lifestyle care and more than 100 prescription...
Boston-based virtual reality platform XRHealth announced it distributed hundreds of virtual reality headsets across 30 hospitals, assisted living and mental health centers, and nursing homes in Israel to assist patients suffering from stress, PTSD and anxiety.
XRHealth's platform allows patients to receive recommended therapies for mental and physical conditions via a virtual reality headset....
Digital care management platform Sidekick Health announced it acquired Hamburg-based aidhere, a prescription digital therapeutic for people with obesity.
Sidekick develops personalized digital therapeutics and programs for chronic and lifestyle disease management, ranging from diabetes to ulcerative colitis and smoking cessation. Its offering enables multiple interventions to be synchronized...
A new mobile app developed in Singapore holds promise to prevent the progression of dementia by helping improve the multilingual thinking of senior folks.
HOW IT WORKS
A team of app developers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) has built what could be the world's first multilingual app for dementia prevention, Ami (an acronym for Advancing Mental Invigoration).
Its...
Mental health platform Headway announced it closed a $125 million Series C funding round led by Spark Capital, boosting its valuation to more than $1 billion.
Existing investors a16z, Accel and Thrive participated in the round, as well as new strategic investors led by Health Care Service Corp.
Will Reed, general partner at Spark Capital, will join the company's board of directors.
WHAT THEY...
Cortica, a hybrid provider that develops care programs for individuals with autism, announced it closed a $40 million strategic Series D extension, bringing its total Series D raise to $115 million.
The round was led by CVS Health Ventures, with participation by Ascension Investment Management, LRVHealth and the University of Wisconsin Foundation.
WHAT IT DOES
Cortica offers virtual and in-...
Family planning platform for employees Stork Club announced it is expanding its partnership with fertility treatment and science company CCRM Fertility, a portfolio company of health management company Unified Women's Healthcare.
Thanks to the partnership, Stork Club patients will have access to expedited appointments at CCRM Fertility clinics in 37 locations in the U.S. and Canada, including...
Google announced that it is funding 15 AI-powered projects, including digital health initiatives to improve provider experience and patient access to care, via its commitment to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Each project received $3 million in technical assistance, cash support and Google Cloud credits. A handful of projects received Google.org Fellowships, where a...
New York-based tech-enabled health insurance company Oscar Health announced the appointment of Kerry Sain as executive vice president of +Oscar and Steven Kelmar as executive vice president and chief of staff to the CEO.
Oscar Health launched +Oscar in 2021. The platform gives provider-sponsored and regional health plans the services and technological capabilities of more extensive health plans...
Lissun scores $1.3 million seed funding
Lissun, a mental health platform from India, has collected $1.3 million in seed funding from a round led by Inflection Point Ventures and Rainmatter Capital.
The startup aims to tackle the stigma around mental health by offering consumer-facing solutions through healthcare institutions in a B2H2C model.
According to a press statement, Lissun plans to use...
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