The promise seemed too good to be true: Walk into your local drugstore, provide a few drops of blood via finger-prick, and get screened for hundreds of different diseases, quickly and cheaply. That’s what Silicon Valley startup Theranos, founded by…
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Theranos Founder’s Defense May Turn on State of Mind, Experts Say
(Reuters) – As Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud trial gets underway this week, lawyers for the former Silicon Valley entrepreneur may try to show she was a true believer in the blood-testing technology at her startup Theranos Inc, and never intended to…
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Humana Health Plan Overcharged Medicare by Nearly $200 Million
A Humana Inc. health plan for seniors in Florida improperly collected nearly $200 million in 2015 by overstating how sick some patients were, according to a new federal audit, which seeks to claw back the money. The US Department of…
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What Happens When You Let Your Wife Review Five of Your Papers?
The pantheon of husband-wife teams in science includes Marie and Pierre Curie, Gerty and Carl Cori, even Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, the founders of BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer on a Covid-19 vaccine. To that list we hesitatingly add…
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