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World promising health companies !: Revision

The health care industry is expected to sustain stable growth over the next decade for a variety of reasons. Advances in medicine have prolonged the average lifespans of most people, requiring more health care treatments over longer terms. In years past, once people turned 65 and enrolled in Medicare, they were expected to live another 10 to 20 years.

Biohub is a joint collaborative effort by Berkeley, UCSF and Stanford for a medical science research center funded by a $600 million commitment from Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. It is trademarked as well as CZ Biohub. It is currently co-led by Stephen Quake and Joseph DeRisi.

More at https://www.czbiohub.org/

Calico LLC is an American research and development biotech company founded on September 18, 2013 by Bill Maris and backed by Google with the goal of combating aging and associated diseases. In Google's 2013 Founders' Letter, Larry Page described Calico as a company focused on "health, well-being, and longevity".

More at https://www.calicolabs.com/

UnitedHealth Group, Inc. (UNH) is the largest health care services company in the world, serving over 50 million individuals in the United States as of late 2018 and 5 million in Brazil. The company provides a wide range of health care products and services, such as health maintenance organizations (HMOs), point of service plans (POS), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), and managed fee-for-service programs.

More at https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/