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Champagne time: NSW hits 80 per cent

NSW is going ahead with lifting more restrictions on Monday after the state hit the sought-after 80 per cent vaccination rate two days earlier than expected. NSW has hit the sought-after 80 per cent vaccination rate it raced so swiftly towards, even earlier than expected on the first lockdown-free weekend in months. Newly installed Premier… Read More »

UpHealth Hits the NYSE: CEO & President on SPAC Merger Completion, Virtual Care Competition & More

Health Tech Jun 10, 2021• By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Another virtual care company hits the New York Stock Exchange as UpHealth ($ UPH) emerges from the combined merger of UpHealth Holdings and Cloudbreak Health with the GigCapital2 SPAC. We’ve got UpHealth’s CEO Ramesh Balakrishnan and President Jamey Edwards here on “Listing Day” to catch… Read More »

Digital Mental Health Hits Mainstream: Cigna’s Behavioral Health CMO on National Rollout of Ginger

Health Tech May 3, 2021• By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Cigna is making digital mental health services available to its entire nationwide network of 14 million members, and it’s selected health tech startup, Ginger to deliver the new benefit. Cigna’s Chief Medical Officer for Behavioral Health, Doug Nemecek, and Ginger’s CEO, Russ Glass, stop by… Read More »

Bubble tea shortage hits US, could last for several months

Bubble tea is following in the footsteps of garden gnomes, ketchup and toilet paper. That’s right, there’s another shortage in the US. Bubble tea, a drink that includes a layer of tapioca balls, or boba, at the bottom, originated in Taiwan but has become a popular drink around the world.  However, companies are seeing delayed shipments of boba, as well as the key… Read More »