Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Health Care Apps See Boost In Investors
A surge in venture funding for startups working on health apps has sparked a flurry of interest in smartphone tools that help doctors diagnose, monitor, and treat patients from afar. (Piller, 1/5)
There鈥檚 never been a better time to have a baby at Facebook Inc. Or at Netflix Inc. Or Credit Suisse Group AG. But as those and other big-name corporations expand paid leave for new parents, millions of ordinary Americans face a hard truth: they get no parental leave at all. Call it the baby gap. In most wealthy nations, getting time off to care for a new child is a given. But in the United States, generous parental leave -- indeed, any parental leave -- is reserved for a relative handful of employees. Just two in five U.S. companies offer paid maternity leave. (Green and Hymowitz, 1/6)
