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PillPack harnesses interest in healthcare firms to raise $50 million

Medications-by-mail company PillPack said it had raised $50 million in funding, underscoring the continuing appeal of healthcare companies to venture capital backers. PillPack is taking on established U.S. pharmacies such as CVS, Rite-Aid and Walgreens, betting its tweaks, such as delivering rolls of individual-dose packs labeled by time and date, will help it win convenience-focused customers. While technology has helped simplify other types of services and purchases, entrepreneurs have largely

Transparency, teamwork key to beating deadly South Korea MERS outbreak

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – South Korea risks a long battle with MERS unless it is transparent, works with international virus-hunters and avoids mistakes made by Saudi Arabia, where the killer disease took hold after emerging in 2012. Virology and infectious disease specialists fought for almost two years to persuade secretive Saudi authorities to share scientific data that may have helped them halt the spread of Middle East Respiratory

Benitez: We admire Sterling

New Real Madrid coach Rafael Benitez has admitted he is a big admirer of unsettled Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling but was unwilling to say whether or not the club would move for the England winger in the summer.