Understood Care, the first AI-native patient advocacy platform, today announces $8.4M in funding, including a $5M seed round led by Rethink Education and Zeal Capital Partners, and $3.4M in pre-seed ...

Patient advocacy platform Baba has made its public debut with $6.5 million in seed led by General Catalyst, the company disclosed last week.

March 9, 2026Biodexa Announces Support for Life’s a Polyp FoundationFirst U.S. Patient Advocacy Group for FAP Patients ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools continue to proliferate, they are becoming a go-to search tool for patients, providers, and caregivers. Blood cancer patients are using AI in oncology to help ...

STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor here, or ...

Young patients often struggle to get early diagnosis of cancer leading to delays and more advanced stages of disease.

When faced with a loved one’s progressive neurodegenerative disease, like Alzheimer’s, or your child’s rare respiratory disease, you question why researchers and resource-backed pharma cannot bring a ...

The Alliance for Patient Access, or AfPA, is celebrating two decades of clinician-led advocacy that has helped shape health policy affecting patient access, treatment choice and the clinician-patient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis can be a life-altering experience, and it can also feel like you’re the only one going through ...

Alongside physician collaboration, patient advocacy is essential to ensure clinical trials and public policy reflect patient-centered outcomes. In addition to patient-physician collaboration, Debra ...

Cancer treatment is hard enough without bureaucratic and policy hurdles, two doctors argue. Better advocacy is necessary.