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Public Health Policy

Public-health policy decides how societies protect wellbeing, from healthcare funding to prevention. This page tracks the debates and decisions shaping it, aggregated from health and policy desks and refreshed regularly.

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The company selling a $3,000 mattress cover that billionaires love wants to become a healthcare company that treats sleep apnea

Eight Sleep wants to turn its consumer sleep data into a healthcare business, but first it has to clear regulatory and clinical hurdles. Eight Sleep, the startup behind the $2,999 mattress cover that puts both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to sleep, wants to stop being known for the celebrities who use it. Instead, the company is pursuing FDA clearance to detect and treat sleep apnea, a pivot it hopes will turn a bougie tech gadget into a busines…

 •  Fortune Magazine
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Ebola outbreak: five big questions

On 23 August, it will be 100 days since the Bundibugyo strain was first reported. How did it became the DRC’s most deadly outbreak and what must be done to stop it becoming the world’s largest?Almost 100 days ago, Africa’s public health watchdog reported an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.There have now been almost 5,000 cases and more than 2,000 deaths since 15 May, making this Ebola outbreak the biggest and most deadly…

 •  The Guardian Society Health