veterinary medicine
Veterinary telehealth service Vetster launches in the UK post expansion in the US
Vetster, a veterinary telehealth service which has raised $40 million, is launching in the U.K. following expansion in the U.S. Vetster connects licensed veterinarians with pet owners via video, voice
The Vets, a pet healthcare platform that provides at-home care, raises $40M led by Target Global
The Vets, a tech-enabled pet healthcare platform that provides at-home care, has raised $40 million in seed funding led by Target Global, PICO Venture Partners and Bolt Ventures. Founded last year as
Make no bones about it, Fuzzy expands reach into pet care market with capital infusion
Pet item sales topped $100 billion in 2020, driven by the 48 million dogs and cats that were adopted over the past three years.
Mixlab raises $20M to provide purrfect pharmacy experience for pet parents
Pet pharmacy Mixlab has developed a digital platform enabling veterinarians to prescribe medications and have them delivered — sometimes on the same day — to pet parents.
Digitail, an app for vets and their customers, raises $2.5M seed round led by byFounders
Digitail, a cloud service for veterinary surgeries and customers, has raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by byFounders and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), joined by Partech and a series o
IBM Research develops new macromolecule that could counter antibiotic resistance
There are other persistent, grave health crises brewing besides the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: Antibiotic resistance is one, and the troubling trend is that it’s on the rise, leading to an incre
A new FDA-authorized COVID-19 test doesn’t need a lab and can produce results in just 5 minutes
There’s a new COVID-19 test from healthcare technology maker Abbott that looks to be the fastest yet in terms of producing results, and that can do so on the spot right at point-of-care, without
US now has the world’s most coronavirus cases
On Thursday, the United States crossed an unfortunate milestone in the global fight against the novel coronavirus: leading the world in confirmed cases. By Thursday afternoon around 3 p.m. PT, the U.S
YC startup Felix wants to replace antibiotics with programmable viruses
Right now the world is at war. But this is no ordinary war. It’s a fight with an organism so small we can only detect it through use of a microscope — and if we don’t stop it, it cou
White House says to avoid gatherings of 10 or more, Trump suggests US coronavirus pandemic could last until August
The White House held another press briefing on Monday to provide an update on its response to the continued coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. President Trump opened by identifying new guidelines in pla
Update: Gates Foundation-backed program will soon be issuing home collection kits for COVID-19 in Seattle
Update: This post has been updated to reflect that the kits being distributed are specimen collection kits. Not at-home tests. A project funded by the Gates Foundation will soon begin issuing at-home
Fuzzy Pet Health launches a $10-per-month telemedicine vet care plan
A new subscription service will now let you chat with a vet from your smartphone for $10 per month. This telemedicine vet care plan is the latest from Fuzzy Pet Health, a subscription vet care servic
UK startup PawSquad brings the vet to your door, on demand
U.K. startup PawSquad is expanding coverage for an on-demand service that brings vets to pets -- offering convenience and reduced stress for pet owners willing to stump up a little more than they'd pa
Move over Cas9, CRISPR-Cas3 might hold the key to solving the antibiotics crisis
Researchers at North Carolina-based Locus Biosciences think they have a potential cure for antibiotic resistance using CRISPR’s lesser-known Cas3 enzyme. Most of the interest in CRISPR technolog
VetCloud Hopes To Unlock The Dormant Data In Veterinary Clinics Around The World
Unlocking the value hidden in data that has long gone unaggregated and unanalyzed is a hugely attractive proposition of big data and cloud-based SaaS startups, and newcomer VetCloud is no exception. T