Kaiser Permanente, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Facebook are among several businesses and foundations in the San Francisco Bay Area banding together to create an investment fund for a public-private housing project that promises to create more than 8,000 homes over the next five to 10 years.

The Women & Access to Health Daring Circle, a coalition of healthcare and technology companies, has opened applications for a new program supporting late-stage women's healthcare startups.

In a new effort to address food insecurity, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia opened a Healthy Weight Food Pharmacy Jan. 23, according to The Inquirer.

The American Heart Association joined forces with health technology vendor Philips to launch the "Connected Pulse Program," an effort to increase survival after sudden cardiac arrest.

The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Rockefeller Foundation are committing $50 million over the next five years to create Data Science for Social Impact, a collaborative philanthropy using data science to address global health and social issues, the Hastings Tribune reports.

Cancer survivors have high stress levels from medical financial hardship, such as struggling to pay bills, a study published in Cancer found.

NYC Health + Hospitals, New York City's 11-hospital public health system, debuted "meatless Mondays" Jan. 7 to provide more plant-based meals to inpatients.

The best investment Bill Gates has made during his career involves efforts to increase access to vaccines and medicines around the globe, he wrote in an essay for The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16.

A study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases examined human papillomavirus virus vaccination rates among adolescents.

Taking measures to protect heart health can also help prevent diabetes, according to a study published in Diabetologia.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente announced three initiatives to help secure affordable housing across the system's footprint and help end homelessness Jan. 15.

The World Health Organization will launch its five-year strategic plan at the start of 2019, and kicked it off with a list of the top 10 issues that will "demand attention from WHO and health partners" this year.

Cancer patients are more than four times more likely to commit suicide than people who do not have cancer, a study published in Nature Communications found.

A nonprofit organization is stepping in to help employees at Claremore (Okla.) Indian Hospital as the government shutdown continues, News On 6 reports.

Philips has recently announced the launch of Philips Cares, a new digital experience that empowers caregivers and their loved ones to connect care and enhance support with meaningful insights across the aging journey.

Residents of Kalamazoo, Mich., welcomed a new grocery store Jan. 7, built into the downtown campus of Bronson Methodist Hospital, MLive reports.

Lark Health, a chronic disease prevention and management company, unveiled plans to integrate genetic information from 23andMe into its nationally recognized diabetes prevention program.

With immigration policies dominating national and local news, the AMA Journal of Ethics devoted its January issue to health care for undocumented immigrants.

A 25-year decline led to a 27 percent decrease in the U.S. cancer death rate — translating to about 2.6 million fewer cancer deaths between 1991 and 2016, a study published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians found.

Stringent privacy protections in the European Union have impeded Facebook's ability to use its controversial suicide-screening tool in the region, according to Business Insider. The algorithm is already in use in the U.S., where it has faced criticism.