How a struggling college in Philadelphia is betting on health care — and a potential merger — to...

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/29 4:18A Hilary Burns

St. Joe’s President Mark Reed is not waiting on a miracle to turn his campus around. Rather, he is aggressively pursuing a strategy to take the 149-year-old Jesuit university in a new academic direction.

Long Covid casts a lasting shadow over workers

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/29 1:56A Emma Jacobs

Most people with Covid-19 recover within two weeks. Some with so-called Long Covid (symptoms lasting longer than three weeks), continue to experience excessive fatigue, breathlessness, headache, insomnia, muscle fatigue and pains, chest pains,...

Pandemic boosts transition to virtual primary care

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/28 9:19A Jim Molis

Virtual primary care could soon become more common as employers and employees adjust to the new normal of telemedicine as the preferred place of treatment. Once mainly perceived as a way for people to occasionally get urgent care, telemedicine is...

Pfizer urges patience in ‘last mile’ of Covid-19 vaccine process

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/28 1:58A Hannah Kuchler in New York

Pfizer’s chief executive has urged patience in the “last mile” of Covid-19 vaccine development, after the timeline for an early look at whether a late-stage trial shows its vaccine works was poised to slip into November.

North Texas named top emerging life sciences market, according to new report

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/27 7:21A Ryan Salchert

As of 2019, DFW had just over 20,000 employees working in the life sciences field, according to the report.

THE INTERVIEW: Cornell’s Martha Pollack on staring down a $200M budget hit and rebuilding trust in...

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/26 2:31A Hilary Burns

Martha Pollack believes the rising cost of college is contributing to the public’s waning confidence in higher education. She also concedes there is only so much a school can do to keep the price of a world-class education in check.

Employer health plans find savings through data-driven insights and personalization

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/20 10:06A Jim Molis

Employers are turning to applications that are both patient-centric and consumer-friendly to engage all employees, not only the sickest, in improving their health. Though just 20% of commercially insured people consume 80% of health care...

VC firm eyes skin health startups with new nine-figure fund

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/20 9:02A Kevin Cummings

Going back to its roots, VC firm Gore Range Capital is looking to invest in skin health startups with its new fund.

New funding brings Dallas health care startup MediBookr's total to $3.3 million

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/20 8:20A Kevin Cummings

With COVID-19 causing employers and health systems to look for ways to keep care costs down, a local startup has received new funding to accelerate its pandemic growth. Dallas-based MediBookr, a population health engagement service platform,...

THE INTERVIEW: Villanova’s Peter Donohue on leadership during the pandemic

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/19 3:12A Hilary Burns

Despite having about 5,000 students living on campus this semester, Rev. Peter Donohue says Villanova University is disquietingly ... quiet.

Colleges point to drops in freshmen as enrollment picture worsens during pandemmic

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/15 2:51A Hilary Burns

New data indicates the enrollment declines at U.S. colleges and universities this semester are worse than initially expected, with the fallout from Covid-19 taking a particularly hard toll on first-year and part-time students.

Covid-19 vaccines are chance at salvation, financial and beyond, for drugmakers

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/14 11:36P Jesse Drucker, David Gelles and

With pharmaceutical companies racing to find vaccines to end the coronavirus pandemic, the industry is hoping to redeem itself in the public’s mind.

A $52,112 helicopter ride: Coronavirus patients battle surprise medical bills

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/14 1:56A Sarah Kliff

Last year, Congress abandoned its attempt to prevent surprise bills like this one, and coronavirus patients are now paying the price. Bills submitted to The New York Times show that patients often face surprise charges from out-of-network...

Breaking down COVID's impact on Texas unemployment

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/13 3:15A W. Scott Bailey

The unemployment claims numbers for Texas due to the pandemic are staggering.

COVID-19 vaccines are chance at salvation, financial and beyond, for drugmakers

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/13 1:56A Jesse Drucker, David Gelles and

The primary goal, of course, is to rescue the world from the grips of a vicious virus. But a big fringe benefit is to get public credit — and to use an improved image to fend off government efforts to more heavily regulate the industry.