A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. Good morning from San Francisco! It’s day three of the annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference – the biggest gathering of biotech and pharma execs, investors and analysts in…
OpenAI has acquired the health-care technology startup Torch, the company announced on Monday. OpenAI purchased Torch for roughly $60 million, according to a source familiar with the deal who asked not to be named because the details are confidential. Torch was building a “unified medical memory” for artificial intelligence that aimed to bring a patient’s…
When Becky Quick announced the CNBC Cures initiative, our effort to raise awareness for rare diseases and improve the lives of the 30 million people living with them, we knew the response would be big. We didn’t know it would be this big. The response has been amazing, overwhelming and humbling. Thank you for your interest —…
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York Source: Montefiore Medical Center Thousands of nurses at some of New York City’s biggest hospitals could go on strike Monday during a severe flu season, three years after a similar walkout forced some of the same medical facilities to transfer some patients and divert ambulances. The looming strike could…
I’ve spent the last 25 years in front of the camera here at CNBC, and people have gotten to know a lot about me. What they don’t know, though, is probably the most important part: My family. And our family is a happy one. But we are also unique, and we have our struggles. Our 9-year-old…
Thirty million. It’s a big number. Maybe not in the context of business news, where we usually talk about company valuations that are in the billions, or even trillions. But when we’re talking about people, 30 million is a very big number. Thirty million is the number of people that the National Organization of Rare…