Morning Headlines 4/18/25
UnitedHealth Group Reports First Quarter 2025 Results and Revises Full Year Guidance
UnitedHealth Group reports Q1 results: revenue up 9.8%, EPS $6.85 versus $6.91, missing expectations for both and sending shares down more than 20% in the company’s first earnings miss since 2008.
The House Oversight Committee asks 23andMe co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki for details on the company’s bankruptcy and any plans to transfer personal and genetic data, warning that a sale to the highest bidder could be a “national security disaster.”
Risa Labs Raises $3.5M to Eliminate Treatment Delays with AI-Powered Workflow Automation in Oncology
Risa Labs, a healthcare AI startup focused on helping cancer care providers eliminate prior authorization delays, raises $3.5 million in seed funding.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.