Business Insider’s biggest healthcare stories for August 17

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Welcome to Dispensed Daily, your daily dose of healthcare news from Business Insider’s healthcare editor Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer and the healthcare team. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday.

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Good morning!

I’m Kimberly Leonard, and I’m guest hosting today’s edition of Dispensed Daily from Washington, DC.

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Let’s get to today’s news. The 18 power players shaping Google’s burgeoning healthcare business, top VCs eye booming biotech IPO market for capital, and public health experts offer an agenda for a Biden administration. 

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POWER PLAYERS: Meet the 18 executives and scientists at Google Health who are shaping the future of the tech giant’s healthcare business

Read the full story from Blake Dodge and Hugh Langley>>

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2019, file photo trader Peter Tuchman, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Markets are coming off a fabulous 2019, where stocks, bonds and other investments climbed in concert. But for the next year, and decade, in fact, Wall Street is telling investors to set their expectations considerably lower. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

FILE – In this Nov. 4, 2019, file photo trader Peter Tuchman, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Markets are coming off a fabulous 2019, where stocks, bonds and other investments climbed in concert. But for the next year, and decade, in fact, Wall Street is telling investors to set their expectations considerably lower. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Top biotech VCs reveal how they plan to take advantage of a record IPO market, as biotechs go public earlier than ever

Check out the full story from Andrew Dunn>>

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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, arrive to deliver remarks at the Alexis Dupont High School on August 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.

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6 public-health experts offer a coronavirus agenda for Biden and Harris’ first day in office, should they win

Read the full story by Aria Bendix>>

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