Morning Headlines 2/14/25
Newly sworn in HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., JD, LLM will manage a $2 trillion budget and oversee CMS, CDC, FDA, NIH, the Public Health Service, HHS OIG, AHRQ, Office for Civil Rights, and ASTP.
CVS shares pop 15% on big earnings beat, even as high medical costs drag down insurance unit
CVS Health reports Q4 results: revenue up 4%, EPS $1.30 versus $1.58, beating expectations for both and sending battered shares up 15%.
Vitalchat, which offers an AI-powered inpatient virtual nursing and procedural telehealth platform, raises $6 million in a Series A funding round.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.