Health Headlines for Monday, August 1
New York tightens up mental health coverage
WBFO
Governor Andrew Cuomo says there will be zero tolerance for insurance companies who try to shirk their obligations.
GSK and Google parent forge $715 million bioelectronic medicines firm
Reuters
GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet’s life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics.
Exclusive: Advent in the lead to buy inVentiv for close to $4 billion – sources
Reuters
Private equity firm Advent International is in advanced talks to acquire inVentiv Group Holdings in a deal that could value the U.S. pharmaceutical research firm at close to $4 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Immunotherapy Offers Hope to a Cancer Patient, but No Certainty
New York Times
A cancer patient nicknamed the Steel Bull got his death sentence on a gloomy March Wednesday in 2015.
New hospital rankings spur debate over health care
Poughkeepsie Journal
In the wake of new federal hospital rankings, officials with two Dutchess County hospitals say patients should rely on multiple sources of information when choosing a health care facility.