Roe v. Wade, tech downturn & peeing in pools 🏊
Coming in hot, one more healthcare newsletter you never asked for. But I promise, we’re cooler.
Think about it 💡
🤰 Roe v. Wade, data privacy, and tech surveillance. Following the U.S. Supreme Court's overruling of its landmark 1973 decision asserting women’s freedom to have an abortion, tech companies have a role to play in ensuring users' privacy. In this regard, Flo launched its “Anonymous Mode” to further protect reproductive health information. More broadly, providers of abortion services are turning to digital assistants and automation to address a new stream of patient demand.
😶🌫️ WHO lives with a mental health disorder? One in eight people according to the organization's latest report. The figure rises to one person in five in conflict zones. The World Health Organization is also concerned about the lack of means deployed to deal with such disorders. Tech has a role to play.
Hit me baby one more time 💥
🌲 As promised by Sequoia’s latest 52-slide deck, aka your fun summer beach read, it ain’t good. The third major tech downturn of the internet era keeps unfolding, and startups keep sacking. Last week, medical billing startup Cedar cut 24% of staff in spite of its $200 million series D financing and $3.2 billion valuation. Cedar follows in the unfortunate footsteps of Ro, Carbon Health, Kry, Halcyon Health, Mfine, Thirty Madison, divvyDOSE, Noom, Ahead and Truepill. Rip.
Thankfully, we do have some Neat News 🗞️
🤝 Biogen is partnering with digital health startup Happify Health to empower multiple sclerosis patients through the tech company's AI-powered online care community Kopa. Neat.
📱 Oto raised $3.3M to provide digital support for patients suffering from tinnitus. Very neat.
🧪 Nigerian platform Healthtracka secured $1.5M to advance preventive care by partnering with labs providing home-based tests and diagnostics. Ultra neat.
What the hellth? 🔬
⛱️ Aaaaah summer. Flip flops. The sweet scent of sunscreen floating in the air. Sipping suze on your deckchair. It’s getting hot, you proceed to take a dip in the azure pool. One too many negronis, you decide to spend a penny. Harmless right? NO. Human uric acid blends with chlorine to create cyanogen chloride (CNCI) and trichloramine (NCl3) which can cause damage to organs such as the heart, lungs, and central nervous system. Don't do it. Plus, it’s just gross.
Consumable Content 🧁
🎙️ Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Listen to creator Sam Hester about the interaction between comic strips and providing better care.
🥱 Also, CB Insights released its annual list of the world's 50 most promising private insurtech companies. In case you have an upcoming dinner party you need to bore people to death at.
🚀 Want to find out more about Nabla? Read about how our CEO Alex Lebrun went from Zuck’s office to personalized healthcare. Cool right?
This is what you came for 🍑
Science finally proved it: narcissistic men are bad in bed. Turns out they tend to be focused on their own personal pleasure and find sexual gratification in orgasm rather than in relational interactions. Who would have thought?? Plus, they are more prone to hasty ejaculation and trouble attaining it as well, indicating that their sexual arousal is driven more by situational rather than steady internal factors. Once again, who knew?? Don't date them.
Kay. That’s a wrap 🌯.