| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Insulet Beats Q2 on Every Metric, Cuts Guidance: Type 2 Patients Quit Before 90 Days | By James Whitaker
Published: Aug 05 2026, 1:42 PM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 30, 2026 | The power of preventative dental care | One of the biggest misconceptions in healthcare is simple: if it doesn't hurt, it's not a problem. When it comes to oral health, that assumption can be misleading - and sometimes costly. Dentists see this all the time. Patients go in feelin... |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Researchers Map Vagus Nerve Fiber by Fiber to Fix Vagus Nerve Stimulation Side-Effect Problem | By Brandi Henkel
Published: Jul 28 2026, 4:03 PM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 15, 2026 | CAH Drug Atumelnant Cut Androgens 67% While Ending Decades of Steroid Overload | By John Bright
Published: Jun 15 2026, 14:41 PM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 2, 2026 | New Study Finds AI Adoption Accelerating Among Health Care Providers Despite Lack of Trust and Safeguards | Survey shows that more than 70% of health care professionals use AI in their practice, and among that, nearly half (48%) use AI for clinical decision support. THOROFARE, NJ, UNITED STATES, June 2, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Seventy percent ... |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Healio AI Introduces CME Credit for Clinical Search Activity | New Point-of-Care learning feature allows clinicians to earn CME seamlessly through everyday use of Healio AI THOROFARE, NJ, UNITED STATES, January 13, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Healio announced a new continuing medical education (CME) cap... |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Healio Announces AI Advisory Board | Physician-led board to provide strategic and clinical direction for the Healio AI platform THOROFARE, NJ, UNITED STATES, January 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Healio is excited to announce the founding members of the Healio AI Advisory Boar... |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Healio Unveils OncoIntel, an AI-integrated Learning Tool for Oncology HCPs | Healio, the trusted resource for healthcare professionals (HCPs), proudly introduces OncoIntel, a new tool designed specifically for oncology HCPs that is set to launch this fall. OncoIntel brings together expert insights and artificial int... |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Healio Unveils OncoIntel, an AI-integrated Learning Tool for Oncology HCPs | THOROFARE, NJ, UNITED STATES, July 1, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Healio, the trusted resource for healthcare professionals (HCPs), proudly introduces OncoIntel, a new tool designed specifically for oncology HCPs that is set to launch this f... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | 'Thriving Beyond Medicine:’ Healio Debuts Community Platform to Support Clinician Wellness | THOROFARE, NJ, UNITED STATES, January 7, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Healio, the trusted resource for healthcare professionals, proudly announces the launch of Healio Community, a new platform designed to support the holistic well-being of p... |
| Nov 25, 2024 | Optimizing Clinical Trials with AI and Data-Driven Insights | Sujay Jadhav, CEO of Verana Health
While most technology- and innovation-oriented industries have followed the general principles of Moore’s Law, which holds that computing power would double yearly, while costs were cut in half, the life s... |
| Sep 8, 2024 | Louis Kwong, MD, Discusses Antibiotic Bone Cement | Share
Tweet
Share
Share
Email
Louis Kwong, MD, in his latest article, shared the importance of practicing good stewardship with antibiotics, which may reduce resistance cement weakening. Below are the key takeaways from the original article... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Anthony Manson Joins Healio as its Chief Digital Officer | THOROFARE, NJ, UNITED STATES, June 25, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Healio is pleased to announce the appointment of Anthony Manson to the position of Chief Digital Officer of Healio. In this newly created role, Manson will work across the or... |
| May 29, 2024 | Healio Pioneers Sustainability in Healthcare Media with 51toCarbonZero Partnership | The collaboration reinforces Healio’s commitment to sustainable and responsible business practices THOROFARE, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES, May 29, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Healio, a global information platform for healthcare professionals, ... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | Health | What would a second Trump presidency look like for health care? | Julie Rovner, KFF Health News | KFF Health News (TNS)
On the presidential campaign trail, former President Donald Trump is, once again, promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — a nebulous goal that became one of his adminis... |
| Jan 3, 2024 | Med Spa Boom in the US Sparks Federal Warnings: Unlicensed Practices Pose Health Risks | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 03 January 2024, 03:01 pm |
| Jan 2, 2024 | Today’s at-home microbiome testing industry is fraught with snake oil | The blue muffin challenge. Food sensitivity tests. Microbiome test kits.
Self-help gastrointestinal health is all the rage. Rightly so: One in four Americans is affected by digestive disorders. And we’re all eating worse, sleeping less, and... |
| Oct 28, 2023 | The urgent call for innovation and investment in maternal health | Maneesh Jain Contributor
Share on X
Maneesh Jain, PhD, is CEO and co-founder of Mirvie, a company pioneering the prediction of life-threatening pregnancy complications months in advance.
More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci became fas... |
| Oct 25, 2023 | RadiantGraph Launches with $5M to Bring AI Personalization to Health Plans | What You Should Know:
– RadiantGraph, a platform using machine learning and artificial intelligence to drive consumer engagement for health plans, today announced its launch today after raising $5 million in Seed funding in a round led by T... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | The official definition of infertility now includes LGBTQ+ and single people | Infertility has a new definition in the U.S. — one that could make a big difference to would-be parents who are single or LGBTQ+.
Last week, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) issued an expanded description of the conditi... |
| Aug 8, 2023 | Pfizer Malaysia, Sunway Medical Centre Velocity and Sunway Multicare Pharmacy Collaborate to Raise Awareness on the Importance of Early Detection of Atrial Fibrillation | KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pfizer Malaysia, Sunway Medical Centre Velocity and Sunway Multicare Pharmacy, have entered a tripartite collaboration on AF360, a program highlighting the importance of early detection o... |
| Aug 2, 2023 | Infectious disease expert Jeanne Marrazzo assumes Fauci role at NIH | WASHINGTON — University of Alabama at Birmingham infectious disease director Jeanne Marrazzo will be the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ director by this fall.
The announcement comes roughly eight months after longti... |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Availability Of Over-The-Counter Narcan Could Help As A Tool To Combat The Illicit Fentanyl Crisis, But Affordability Remains An Issue | WHEATON, ILLINOIS - SEPTEMBER 01: Narcan nasal spray for the treatment of opioid overdoses is made ... [+] available for free in a vending machine by the DuPage County Health Department at the Kurzawa Community Center on September 01, 2022 ... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Healio releases special report on nutrition | Thorofare, NJ, March 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Thorofare, NJ – Healio announced today the release of a new resource for clinicians having discussions with patients about healthy diet options.
Food is Medicine: A Healio Guide to Diets pro... |
| Dec 16, 2022 | Anumana and Pfizer partner on algorithm for detecting early heart disease | Through this partnership, Anumana will do clinical trials and seek FDA clearance
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States with one person dying from it every 34 seconds; one form of heart disease is called cardiac am... |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Contributed: How digital health can improve cancer care delivery | Photo: FG Trade/Getty Images |
| Nov 10, 2022 | New Stargardt Treatments- MD Stem Cells SCOTS2 or ALK-001 Vitamin A | Stargardt Retina
SCOTS2 Eye Treatment
New treatments for Stargardt Macular Dystrophy compared
MD Stem Cells continues to treat different retinal and optic nerve diseases in SCOTS2 with positive results.”
— Steven Levy MDUSA, November 10, 20... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | Oral Antiviral Avigan (Favipiravir) Reduced COVID-19 Death by 22% Compared to Placebo | Favipiravir may improve severe COVID-19 recovery and ventilator-free survival in younger patients DUBAI , UAE , October 11, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Cellvera, a biotech company focused on developing and commercializing antiviral therapies... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | Massachusetts Legislation To Curb Use Of Step Therapy - A Health Insurers’ Drug Cost Containment Tool- Fails To Move Forward | The Massachusetts House passed a bill which aims to curb the use of step therapy by health insurers. ... [+] Drugs that are designated with a “step therapy” condition of reimbursement are only paid for by insurers if a patient has failed on... |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Telehealth For Cancer Care Receives $23 Million Research Funding Boost | The NIH has awarded funding to create four new research centers which will look at the use of ... [+] telehealth approaches for cancer care. getty |
| Aug 8, 2022 | CCHR Reports that New Study Shows High Number of Suicides After Electroshock | In another psychiatric treatment failure, new study shows electroshock fails to prevent suicide. As with patients prescribed antidepressants, those receiving electroshock have been misled that electroshock corrects imbalanced brain chemical... |
| May 2, 2022 | Health-E Commerce offers tips for using tax-free healthcare funds to protect mental wellbeing | Over 70 million Americans are enrolled in FSAs and HSAs, but many don’t realize how these tax-free dollars can be used to support and improve mental health. Through education and awareness, we’re hoping to change that dynamic.
NEW YORK (PRW... |
| Apr 25, 2022 | BrainCheck’s Digital Cognitive Assessment Tool Validated in Peer-Reviewed Study | BrainCheck’s Digital Cognitive Assessment Tool Validated in Peer-Reviewed Study April 25, 2022 / Nueterra Capital Marketing
A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) validates the comprehensive cogni... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Mindfulness: How to Start Your Day the Right Way | This year, employee engagement rates took a dip for the first time in years, falling to 34%. At the same time, the percentage of actively disengaged workers rose to 16%. Whether you’re a manager or team member, you can’t overlook the import... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Why Digital Transformation Is Imperative to Combat Healthcare’s Labor Crisis | Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts
As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Physicians deployed ... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | Altos Labs’ Mega-Startup: Wretched Excess Or The Future Of Biotech…Or Both? | Alta Labs - the biggest biotech startup in history. Photo credit: Getty getty |
| Jan 31, 2022 | This Heart Health Month, Remember: Healthy Hearts Begin with Healthy Mouths | ProBiora is the only probiotic that includes a patented blend of the three naturally occurring strains of beneficial bacteria in the mouth. “Understanding the crucial link between oral health and heart health is a game-changer in developing... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Eluminex Biosciences Acquires Zuretinol Acetate from Retinagenix Holdings | Purchase of Assets and Related Global Commercialization Rights for Oral 9-cis-Retinol (Zuretinol) for Rare Forms of Childhood Blindness.
Clinical Stage Asset Has Potential for First Approved Oral Therapy for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis (LC... |
| Jan 13, 2022 | Juno co-founder launches ambitious new startup with Fred Hutch colleagues to treat cancer | From left: Affini-T scientific co-founders and Fred Hutch investigators Philip Greenberg, Aude Chapuis, and Thomas Schmitt. (Fred Hutch Photos)
A new cell therapy company is on the block, propelled by powerhouse scientific co-founders from ... |
| Oct 3, 2021 | AbbVie : to Showcase New Data at the United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Week Virtual 2021 | NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie today announced new data on the investigational use of risankizumab (SKYRIZI®) in Crohn's disease, upadacitinib (RINVOQ®) in ulcerative colitis and HUMIRA® (adalimumab) in inflammator... |
| Sep 18, 2021 | Merck's Keytruda uncorks full data on latest adjuvant win — this time in melanoma — adding bricks to early cancer wall | In recent months, the battle for PD-(L)1 dominance has spilled over into early cancer with Merck’s Keytruda and Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo all alone on the front lines. Keytruda now has another shell in its bandolier, an... |
| Sep 4, 2021 | Devalue The Doctor: The Response Of A Manipulated System To Orthopaedic Surgeons | Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. |
| Sep 2, 2021 | It’s time to relieve electronic prior authorization bottlenecks | Healthcare policies and regulations are generally enacted with the best of intentions. Ironically, even the best-intentioned programs can create bottlenecks that negatively impact patient care. Prior authorization (PA) – established more th... |
| Aug 26, 2021 | 23andMe : Felt Ill After COVID-19 Vaccine? It May Depend on Which Vaccine and Whether You've Had COVID-19 | These relationships between sex, age, and vaccine reaction held up, even after controlling for potential confounders.
How do the COVID-19 vaccines work?
The COVID vaccines teach your immune system to recognize and respond to the virus that ... |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Healio Announces Expanded Coverage: Allergy and Asthma; Women's Health & OB/GYN | |
| Aug 17, 2021 | Walgreens launches credit card program in partnership with Synchrony | The news: The new myWalgreens Credit Card Program includes two Synchrony-issued cards: a co-branded Mastercard and a private-label store card. Interested customers can apply at the register or scan a QR code in-store to get a customized, pr... |
| Aug 16, 2021 | ‘Stuck in a cul-de-sac’: Researchers are finally breaking away from the central dogma of depression | Geoffrey Attardo first tried Prozac to treat his depression when he was doing postdoctoral research at Yale School of Public Health and was feeling the pressures of a new job in academia. Soon after he started, the colors around him seemed ... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Major Blind Charity Brings Its Full Talking Books Library To Amazon Alexa | A pair of Amazon Echo multimedia smart speakers, taken on November 28, 2016. (Photo by Joby ... [+] Sessions/T3 Magazine/Future via Getty Images)Future via Getty Images |
| Jul 16, 2021 | Real-world evidence in the multiple myeloma treatment landscape | By Dawn Marie Stull, PharmD, BCOP, Scientific Director, Global Medical Affairs, Takeda Oncology and Dasha Cherepanov, Associate Director, Global Outcomes Research, Takeda Oncology
In our time at Takeda Oncology, we’ve had the opportunity to... |
| May 13, 2021 | Oak Street unveils rosy Q1 2021 earnings results, expects stronger growth this year | Tech-based primary care vendor Oak Street raked in $297 million in revenues during the first quarter of the year—a 47% annual jump from $197 million in Q1 2020. The primary care disruptor plans to see stronger growth this year as it opens u... |
| May 4, 2021 | Healio Strategic Solutions Announces Survey Insights on the Delivery of Medical Care Using Telehealth | |
| Apr 27, 2021 | Home Adaptations Keep People Out Of Care Facilities – Why Do Doctors Rarely Discuss Them? | Senior woman using toilet bathroom handrail. getty |
| Apr 23, 2021 | Real-world data, not predictions, should drive decisions on Covid-19 and school opening | The United States has exceeded 31 million Covid-19 infections (a messy data point) and is approaching 570,000 Covid-19 deaths (a more robust data point). Yet despite the abundance of data about the pandemic, the best available information i... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | From House And Home To The Everything Place: On What Brands Can Learn From Covid-19’s Impact On How We Live | With all the time we spend at home this past year — living, working, exercising, learning and ... [+] longing for escape — our homes have become the central location for most every activity we do. And our main and often only guests invited ... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Healio Strategic Solutions Announces Enhanced Programmatic Advertising Platform, Healiolytics | |
| Jan 26, 2021 | A Marine Celebrates, And Markets Flinch As Pennsylvania’s First Private Prison Loses $42M Annual Contract | |
| Jan 6, 2021 | For people with OCD — and fearful of germs — the pandemic is upending years of therapy | Long before the pandemic arrived, Renée battled intense fears of getting sick from daily life. She worried she could get HIV from doorknobs or suffer brain damage from odorless carbon monoxide leaking from a faulty furnace. Danger lurked ev... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | Brightseed announces first AI-powered discovery of phytonutrients targeting liver & metabolic health | The San Francisco-based company said that its A.I. Forager platform identified N-trans caffeoyltyramine (NTC) and N-trans-feruloyltyramine (NTF) as acting through a novel biological mechanism governing the accumulation and clearance of live... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | The Psychological Trauma Of Covid-19 | Depression has risen threefold since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.getty |
| Jan 5, 2021 | Brightseed announces first AI-powered discovery of phytonutrients targeting liver & metabolic health | The San Francisco-based company said that its A.I. Forager platform identified N-trans caffeoyltyramine (NCT) and N-trans-feruloyltyramine (NFT) as acting through a novel biological mechanism governing the accumulation and clearance of live... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | The Biotech Paradox Of 2020: A Year In Review | 2020 was an incredibly paradoxical year for those of us in biotech: the striking dichotomy of simultaneously experiencing agonizing tragedy alongside buoyant optimism. |
| Dec 21, 2020 | 25 Of The Most Customer-Centric Companies From 2020 | getty |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Make pre-approval Covid-19 vaccines available through expanded access, not an EUA | On Monday, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidate prevented more than 90% of infections in healthy volunteers. Based on these encouraging data — potentially among the most effective for any infectio... |
| Nov 3, 2020 | Was Plastics Being Mixed With Oil In Mauritius Spill To Produce A ‘Frankenstein Fuel’? | 15 Aug: Workers collecting leaked oil next to Mahebourg with Ile Aux Aigrettes visible in ... [+] background. Could the oil have contained plastics as part of an experimental fuel?AFP via Getty Images |
| Oct 26, 2020 | NovaQuest, Mileutis sign $20m deal for peptides to protect cow udders | Bovine mastitis is an infectious disease that wreaks havoc in the mammary glands of cows. If left untreated, it can cause severe and lasting damage to udders and can be fatal.
For dairy farmers trying to optimize milk production, mastitis i... |
| Oct 8, 2020 | ICE Raids Are Stopping Latinx Queer And Trans Men From Getting HIV Care | ICE Arrests Undocumented Immigrants In NYCJohn Moore/Staff/Getty Images |
| Oct 7, 2020 | Chinese drug startup Hinova raises 1 billion yuan to target prostate cancer and gout | |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Could Drug-Resistant Bacteria Cause The Next Pandemic? | Venetians dressed as plague doctors pose during Carnival in their city's Piazza San Marco on ... [+] February 25, 2020. Their costume dates to the Italian Plague of 1629–1631. (Photo by Giacomo Cosua/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via G... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | As residents get better at treating Covid-19, they may become worse at their own specialties | Eight hundred fifty. That’s the number of major procedures general surgery residents need to perform before graduating from residency.
As Covid-19 continues to spread across the United States, this requirement and those of other residencies... |
| Apr 30, 2020 | Are infertility treatments ‘essential’? How to ethically determine what kind of care must go on amid Covid-19 | As the Covid-19 epidemic began to put an unprecedented strain on the U.S. health care system, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services along with many state agencies issued directives that non-essential care be discontinued. The goal ... |
| Jan 29, 2020 | Makers of novel cell/gene therapy say off-the-shelf approach only way to solve pricing woes | In a recent interview in San Francisco, Wotton and another biopharma executive pointed to a solution to the price conundrum: an off-the-shelf approach.
To clarify, to date the approved CAR-T therapies involve cells from the patient’s own bo... |
| Dec 23, 2019 | To make advanced therapies, we need to industrialize personalization | What’s the best way to measure the real rate of progress in personalized cell therapies, gene therapies, and other advanced therapies?
I’ve been tracking the ever-growing flow of reports about these therapies in scientific journals and pres... |
| Oct 7, 2019 | Social determinants of health data and population health | Physicians and nurses have long known what has become increasingly obvious to hospitals, health systems and health plans — social determinants of health (SDoH) have an outsized impact on health outcomes. In fact, research suggests that medi... |
| Sep 10, 2019 | French startup Keranova raises €24 million for its robotic solution to treat cataracts | With more than 25 million patients worldwide per year, cataract surgery is one of the world’s most commonly performed surgical procedures.
Saint-Etienne and Lyon–based Keranova, has developed a ultra-fast robotised laser to treat patients f... |
| Aug 16, 2019 | LEnsgen is the talk of the town @ Ascrs 2019 | LensGen, an ExSight Ventures portfolio company, was the buzz of this year's American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting (“ASCRS”) in San Diego. Members of the ExSight team were in the audience to hear Drs. Eric Donnenfeld, U... |
| Jul 23, 2019 | Trefoil moves closer to a clinical trial: Announcing our follow on investment | Trefoil Therapeutics, Inc., an early-stage biopharmaceutical company and ExSight Ventures portfolio company, announced their $28 million Series A financing. Trefoil is developing a regenerative approach to treating corneal dystrophies and o... |
| May 9, 2019 | AI-powered wearable rings could replace watches for heart monitoring | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Heart monitoring tools have already shrunk from t... |
| May 9, 2019 | AI-powered wearable rings could replace watches for heart monitoring | Heart monitoring tools have already shrunk from the size of toasters into smartwatches, so the next step might not surprise you: South Korean researchers have successfully tested heart monitoring technology in a wearable “smart ring” backed... |
| Apr 17, 2019 | Medicare payment rules hinder the fight against superbugs | Late last year, a retirement community in Vermont was quarantined after an outbreak of antibiotic resistant bacteria swept through the facility, sickening 70 seniors. In pediatric oncology wards, children beating cancer are increasingly fel... |
| Jan 3, 2019 | Michigan medtech company raises $77M for renal denervation solution to hypertension | While the development of renal denervation technologies stalled after a failed Medtronic study in 2014, recent positive research results have led to increasing interest – and investment – in the space.
Case in point, Kalamazoo, Michigan-bas... |
| Aug 28, 2018 | Vivek Ramaswamy bags $100M in risk capital to back his latest PhIII gamble at Dermavant — while Urovant dives into gene therapy | Vivek Ramaswamy
Just a few days after closing on a $330 million deal with GlaxoSmithKline to reel in a Phase III-ready drug for the crowded R&D field of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, Vivek Ramaswamy’s Dermavant inked ... |
| Dec 11, 2017 | The data are in, but debate rages: Are hospital readmission penalties a good idea? | A closely watched experiment in health care has unfolded over the last few years: Financial incentives for hospitals to reduce readmissions. It was a feature of the Affordable Care Act, and researchers are now assessing its impacts. But eve... |
| Dec 4, 2017 | Investors see big money in infertility. And they’re transforming the industry | Investors searching for a new way to make big money in medicine have hit upon an age-old problem: infertility.
The money isn’t just in treating older women who have spent years trying to conceive. It’s in persuading younger women, still in ... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Bionic devices turn humans into superstrong workers | Iron Man suits might not yet be commonplace, but companies from Ford (F) to Lowe's (LOW) are testing new mechanical exoskeletons to enhance -- and extend -- human strength.
Earlier this month, Ford said it was testing four models of exoskel... |
| Oct 13, 2017 | Lupin is prepping a $1B US deal spree; Protagonist raising $60M for trial work | → Coming off of a $150 million deal to buy Symbiomix, Mumbai-based Lupin says it’s planning a $1 billion deal spree aimed at building a women’s health group in the US.
→ Protagonist Therapeutics $PTGX is raising $60 million... |
| Jul 20, 2017 | Watch: Grappling with cancers like John McCain’s glioblastoma that break all the rules | Arizona Sen. John McCain’s recent diagnosis of the hard-to-treat cancer glioblastoma stands in contrast to recent media reports that paint an optimistic picture of cancer treatment in America. A sampling of headlines includes “Cancer surviv... |
| May 25, 2017 | Mystery biotech Emmaus grabs groundbreaking FDA panel backing for sickle cell drug — after quietly scrapping $225M deal | Yutaka Niihara
A little-known biotech out of Torrance, CA is one big step closer to winning the first new drug approval for sickle cell disease in close to 20 years. And it has achieved precious little attention for its years-... |
| May 6, 2014 | Parents’ digital cameras may be a helpful new tool in early detection of pediatric eye cancer | Using thousands of baby photos, some off-the-shelf software and the help of his colleagues, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Baylor University is on a personal mission to develop a better way to detect early signs of ... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | Chinese study compares Medtronic spine implants | A small Chinese study pitting a pair of Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) cervical spine implants against each other found that they deliver similar outcomes but differences in procedure times.
The researchers compared Medtronic’s Bryan and Accel device... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | Medtech investors laud the funding exodus of 2013 | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — The lack of dollars for medtech startups is bad news for the industry, but some investors are happy to see their competition dropping.
Fewer funders means more opportunities for those that remain, representing a "r... |
| Dec 6, 2013 | Indian media accuses state of failing metal hip patients | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — India media accused its government of failing to act to protect patients potentially harmed by Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:JNJ) now-recalled metal-on-metal hips.
Mumbai’s dna news source wrote this week that the state... |
| Nov 30, 2012 | Novel degenerative eye disease drug needs $2.5M to move into IND-enabling studies | His next idea was that, rather than stopping the production of ATR, which would impede the vision cycle, a better solution would be to temporarily control levels of the chemical in the eye. Palczewski knew that there were approved drugs on ... |
| Sep 10, 2012 | Longitude Venture Partners goes after a $375M second fund for life science investments | Attractive deals for Longitude are with companies developing clinically and cost-effective treatments for unmet medical needs, and platform technologies that facilitate novel product development, the firm says on its website. It gives prefe... |
| Apr 13, 2012 | Franken: We can fix FDA and maintain patient safety | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — The medical device industry and the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health need to get their heads together to improve the med-tech approval process while ensuring patient safety, according to Se. Al Franken... |
| Allogeneic CAR T products: The potential to unlock innovation and democratize cell therapy | By David Chang, M.D., Ph.D.
In the first decade of the 1900s, anyone could get an automobile. Sears sold them out of their iconic catalogue. Of course, that required waiting at the train depot, uncrating the vehicle and doing a bit of assem... |
| A biotech startup backed by Verily is testing a device that zaps your nerves with electricity to fight inflammation | Kristoffer Famm, the president of Galvani Bioelectronics. Galvani Bioelectronics This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
A patient has become the US's first to get an experimental... |
| Social determinants of health data and population health | Physicians and nurses have long known what has become increasingly obvious to hospitals, health systems and health plans — social determinants of health (SDoH) have an outsized impact on health outcomes. In fact, research suggests that medi... |
| Атопический дерматит (нейродермит): что сломалось и как лечить | Одно из возможных проявлений атопического дерматита
Знаете, чему учат студентов-медиков, когда они в первый раз попадают на курацию по кожно-венерологическим заболеваниям? Правильно общаться с пациентом и корректно его осматривать. Типичный... |
| Michigan medtech company raises $77M for renal denervation solution to hypertension | Hypertension is a condition that affects millions of people around the world and can lead to serious health issues including cardiac arrest, stroke and heart failure. It also represents a significant burden and cost to the healthcare system... |
