4 Trends We’re Watching in Healthcare in 2019

Healthcare is massive economic burden in this country. According to the National Health Expenditure Accounts, the federal agency that has tracked healthcare spending in the U.S. since the 1960s, it now totals roughly $3.5 trillion per year, or more than $10,000 per person. As a percentage of GDP, health spending accounts for nearly 18%.

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2 Companies That Are Working to Cure Cancer Right Now

In 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the United States and 609,640 people died as a result of the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute. These numbers are staggering. The challenge for clinicians and researchers is... Read more

Antimicrobial Resistance in Infectious Disease & Human Health

Antibiotics, one of the major medical discoveries of the 20th Century, have enabled humans to treat a wide array of bacterial infections that once caused significant death and suffering. For this reason, antibiotics have become widespread in their use, often times... Read more

How Shifting Spending to Healthy Foods Could Prevent Chronic Illness 

The burden of chronic health issues is massive: 90% of the nation’s $3.3 trillion in annual health care expenditures are for people with chronic and mental illness, according to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). Even... Read more

Type 2 Diabetes

iSelect invests at the intersection of food and health. Perhaps no other disease indication fits this description better than diabetes. Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes affect 30 million people in the U.S. alone. Of these, 95% of them have type 2 diabetes, and cost the U.S.... Read more

Solving the Public Health Crisis by Making Healthy Nutrition as Addictive as Sugar

The modern world has a serious problem with sugar. The average American consumes more than 129 pounds of the stuff each year, according to the USDA, more than double what we ate two generations ago. And, unlike in previous decades when most sweeteners came from cane... Read more