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Health/Life Sciences

Jul 8, 2020, 4:37 PM

Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of… Read More

Jul 6, 2020, 4:11 PM

Accolade CEO Raj Singh on health tech company’s IPO, path to profits, and the pandemic’s ‘second hit’

Accolade’s share price is up 38% since its initial public offering on Thursday, marking a successful debut for the health… Read More

Jul 4, 2020, 9:49 AM

GeekWire Podcast: What pandemic? Tech funding stays strong; Accolade’s IPO; Future of sports

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week. Despite the pandemic, funding for Pacific Northwest tech startups… Read More

Jul 2, 2020, 7:19 AM

Health tech company Accolade goes public at $1.2B valuation in Seattle’s first IPO of 2020

Health benefits platform Accolade made its initial public offering Thursday morning, pricing its stock at $22/share, above the expected range… Read More

SCCA and Fred Hutch
Jun 30, 2020, 10:35 AM

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center cuts 76 jobs, eliminates 81 open roles, citing downturn

Updated with Fred Hutch confirmation and additional details. Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is cutting more than 70 jobs,… Read More

Sample testing
Jun 29, 2020, 8:45 PM

Public health officials do a reality check on Elon Musk’s tweets about COVID-19 tests

Billionaire Elon Musk knows his stuff when it comes to rockets or electric cars. But does that translate into epidemiological… Read More

Bill Gates
Jun 29, 2020, 3:38 PM

Bill Gates says pandemic could get ‘worse than I would have expected’ — and calls for leadership

Tech leaders typically use their TED talks to sketch out an optimistic vision of the future, but today Bill Gates… Read More

Sentinel Monitor
Jun 26, 2020, 10:15 AM

Sentinel Healthcare extends its COVID-19 tracking system to retirement communities

As concerns about a resurgence of the coronavirus outbreak are widening, so is the reach of the COVID-19 tracking platform… Read More

Jun 25, 2020, 10:29 AM

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center names new board chair and adds trustees

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center named a new chair of its board of trustees, Kathy Surace-Smith, a senior vice… Read More

Healthy vs. Alzheimer's brain
Jun 25, 2020, 12:01 AM

Allen Institute will host $40.5M brain research center to map the effects of Alzheimer’s disease

A $40.5 million collaborative research center headquartered at Seattle’s Allen Institute aims to create high-resolution maps of brains ravaged by… Read More

Jun 24, 2020, 1:51 PM

Pandemic projections suggest requiring masks could save 33,000 lives in U.S.

The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has added mask-on and mask-off options to its computer-based projections… Read More

Jun 23, 2020, 9:58 AM

Secretive Seattle biotech company raises more than $700M to develop new ways to modify genes

Sana Biotechnology today formally announced that it has raised more than $700 million in venture funding — one of the… Read More

Drug combination
Jun 22, 2020, 11:18 AM

Institute halts COVID-19 clinical trial for hydroxychloroquine due to low enrollment

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has shut down a clinical trial to see if a combination of… Read More

Jun 22, 2020, 9:35 AM

Seattle area sees new spike in COVID-19 cases, weekly count up for 1st time in more than 2 months

More than 400 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Seattle and King County in the past week, up nearly… Read More

Jun 19, 2020, 9:21 AM

Alpine Immune Sciences stock rises after biotech firm lands $60M from AbbVie for lupus drug

Alpine Immune Sciences stock rose more than 10% Friday after the Seattle-based biotech company inked a $60 million licensing deal… Read More

WA Food Fund at work
Jun 18, 2020, 3:38 PM

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation donates $2.2M to COVID-19 causes (with an assist from Amazon)

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation announced two contributions to support people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington state,… Read More

Jun 17, 2020, 5:00 AM

The next X-ray? Seattle startup Proprio raises $23M to build high-tech surgical navigation system

Seattle startup Proprio has raised more cash to help build out its surgical technology that some investors believe will be… Read More

At-home test kit
Jun 16, 2020, 5:10 PM

Researchers want to pick up the pace on early testing and treatment for COVID-19

Scientists from Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington say the search for COVID-19 treatments should… Read More

Coronavirus
Jun 16, 2020, 2:44 PM

British study suggests that a low-cost steroid could reduce COVID-19 death rate

A study involving thousands of COVID-19 patients in Britain suggests that a low-cost steroid drug known as dexamethasone could significantly… Read More

IHME and C19Pro projections
Jun 15, 2020, 7:42 PM

COVID-19 projections show higher death tolls ahead as restrictions are lifted

The latest projections for the course of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. suggest that there’s going to be an… Read More

Hydroxychloroquine pills on lung X-ray
Jun 15, 2020, 10:52 AM

FDA ends authorization to use hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 and issues warning, but trials go on

The Food and Drug Administration today revoked its emergency authorization for two related antimalarial drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, to be… Read More

Jun 15, 2020, 8:19 AM

Medical device repair startup Summit Imaging fires back at Philips over device ‘hacking’ claims

Seattle-area medical device repair company Summit Imaging is denying accusations of hacking and stolen trade secrets in a court battle… Read More

Jun 13, 2020, 12:48 PM

COVID-19 transmission in Seattle region rises back above key threshold, new estimates show

Transmission of COVID-19 is back on the rise in the Seattle region and other parts of Washington state, again exceeding… Read More

Jun 12, 2020, 3:34 PM

Latest testing shows no big spike in COVID-19 cases due to protests, as thousands wear masks

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office says it’s seeing no evidence so far that protesters are testing positive for COVID-19 at… Read More

Evolution of coronavirus in U.S.
Jun 11, 2020, 4:52 PM

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, experts lay out 10-point plan for a genomic revolution in public health

From the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, genetic sleuths have been at the forefront in the global effort to… Read More

Immune system activity
Jun 11, 2020, 12:54 PM

Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft team up to track coronavirus-fighting cells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gro9DtSKqos Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft have launched an open-access database called ImmuneCODE to catalog the many ways in which… Read More

Jun 11, 2020, 12:33 PM

Virtual care provider Conversa raises $12M as investors bet big on digital health startups

The latest digital health company to land funding is Conversa, a Portland, Ore.-based telehealth startup that announced a $12 million… Read More

Sample testing
Jun 10, 2020, 3:09 PM

SCAN resumes community coronavirus testing after winning review board’s OK

The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network today resumed its at-home COVID-19 testing campaign, nearly a month after the program was suspended… Read More

Comparative coronavirus charts
Jun 9, 2020, 5:59 PM

Coronavirus projections converge amid concerns about a pandemic resurgence

Dueling projections for the course of the COVID-19 pandemic are converging on a narrower range of estimates for this summer,… Read More

Jun 8, 2020, 10:59 AM

Researchers gauge the effect of protests and reopenings on reviving the pandemic

Epidemiologists say the crowding conditions associated with mass protests over police violence seem likely to add dozens of people, or… Read More

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