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UnitedHealthcare recently launched UHC Hub, which helps self-funded employers manage multiple health solutions and employees gain access to these solutions.

After experiencing firsthand the shortcomings of existing public and private programs to treat children's developmental delays, Jen Wirt founded a startup called Coral Care. The company, which announced its official launch on Tuesday, brings pediatric developmental specialty care into families’ homes.

Cherish Health recently launched Cherish Serenity, a device that sits in the home and can detect falls across multiple rooms. If there is an emergency, it will notify a caregiver or response center for help.

Eli Lilly said its experimental gene therapy restored hearing in a boy born with profound hearing loss. The results for this experimental treatment come three months after Regeneron Pharmaceuticals reported early but encouraging data for its hearing loss gene therapy.

Panel discussions will include investment trends, women's health, value-based care, employer health and more. Startups will also have the opportunity to meet with investors as part of our Ask the Investor program. The conference will be held May 21-22 at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago. Register today!

CG Oncology’s upsized IPO will support pivotal testing of cretostimogene, an oncolytic virus for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. The clinical program spans tests of the engineered virus as a monotherapy and as part of combination treatments.

Despite the significant challenges to improving U.S. health outcomes while reducing healthcare spending, I am heartened by the exciting ways in which government organizations and the private sector are innovating and deploying new technologies that can achieve these goals.

Key trends such as the resilience of the emerging biopharma space, the complexities of Medicare, and the revolutionary role of data and AI are shaping the future of the industry.

The California Department of Health Care Services launched the Behavioral Health Virtual Services Platform last week. The platform includes two digital health solutions: BrightLife Kids (developed by Brightline) for parents/caregivers and kids ages 0 to 12 and Soluna (developed by Kooth) for teens and young adults ages 13 to 25.

Two months after announcing an inquiry into reports of new cancers in patients treated with CAR T-cell therapies, the FDA is directing makers of these therapies to add new safety warnings to product labels describing this risk. Companies have 30 calendar days to comply.