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| Feb 18, 2025 | $2 Cultivated Pork? Fork & Good on First Sales, Funding and the Future of FDA | 8 Mins Read Niya Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Fork & Good, on what separates the startup from other cultivated meat players, earning its first revenue, and its regulatory plans.
It was just only in January 2024 that, in an Irish pub in ... |
| Jul 12, 2023 | Control Dialysis Cannulation Pain - New Buzzy Pro Receives FDA 510K Indication | Dialysis cannulation pain impacts half a million patients. Proven Buzzy device is now FDA indicated to control dialysis, blood donation & lab draw needle pain.
Patients like the control of holding Buzzy in exactly the right spot for the... |
| Sep 3, 2021 | Can Psychedelics Help You Understand the Meaning of Life? | September 3, 2021 7 min read
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An experience with the divine. It sounds fantastical, doesn't it? Both sublime and surreal, possibly a tad flimsy. But does such a thing exist,... |
| Mar 18, 2020 | COVID-19 Edition: COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Change | *Covid-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredible portfolio companies have put together helpful materials and products to assist in this time of need, and we will be promoting them in this... |
| Mar 21, 2018 | One of the youngest fund managers in the U.S. just launched her own accelerator, too | Last August, we told you about Laura Deming, a New Zealand native who was home schooled before moving halfway around the world as a 12-year-old to work alongside Cynthia Kenyon, a renowned molecular biologist who specializes in the genetics... |
| Sep 10, 2017 | Column: When it’s time to quit | When I was a news editor, I made a habit of reminding reporters that readers require us to explain things, as well and deeply as we can.
We are increasingly in the business of how and why. With their ubiquitous gadgets, consumers can gather... |
| Dec 8, 2016 | The elitist sheen at TEDMED makes some scientists uneasy. Still, they flock to it | PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — You can’t beat the glitz at TEDMED.
Hoisting purple cocktails at a private resort here in Palm Springs, 750 elite guests hobnobbed last week at the annual extravaganza — two and a half days of slickly produced talks a... |
| Jul 21, 2016 | Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus | A sense of angst was rattling students at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. One of their peers had taken his life days before.
Professor Mikel Snow felt the dark undercurrent and knew he had to speak up. So, f... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Shkreli the gateway musical: 5 more health and life science dramas that should get a shot on Broadway | Nonetheless, we at MedCity News have been inspired and have taken on the challenge of coming up with a few more topics that would make excellent fodder for Broadway. Here are a few of them. We’d welcome your comments and suggestions as well... |
| Mar 28, 2016 | Using Art to Raise Awareness About Vaccinations | The question "What is art?" is over. But ask "What good is art?" and the conversation quickly gets more interesting. As a tool to raise awareness, it can be powerful, and this is the goal behind The Art Of Saving A Life,... |
| Mar 13, 2015 | Allergen’s $80M fund-raise, another U.S. Ebola patient (Morning Read) | PAYERS-PROVIDERS
Morton General Hospital fires CEO Seth Whitmer.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC’s chief medical editor, has resigned. You’ll recall she personified the evil side of physician arrogance by defying a 21-day Ebola quarantine.
A Leapf... |
| Nov 26, 2014 | Building viruses that kill cancer cells: BeneVir gets $2M, waiting on $10M more | The money will go toward the first proof-of-concept clinical studies, expand the startup’s pipeline and “establish partnerships to test promising combination therapies in a diverse set of metastatic solid tumors.”
BeneVir says its platform ... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | Innovation inspiration: From Shakira to Toys ‘R’ Us | By Lisa Fratt
TEDMED2014 focused on a powerful theme: unlocking imagination in service of health and medicine. Speaker after speaker shared tales of imagination, inspiration and innovation. Here are a few of our favorites:
$100 plastic car ... |
| Sep 17, 2014 | This Could Be the Most Secure Password Ever | In the wake of serious security breaches in the last year, from the pilfering of Target customers’ credit card information to the celebrity iCloud selfie-hack, it’s easy to feel digitally naked. Your current best options—like making your pa... |
| Sep 13, 2014 | TEDMED highlights contrast powers of the body with human frailty (video) | http://tedmed.com/files/Media/TEDMED2014/JeffIliff.mp4
Jeff Iliff, a neuroscientist who works as an assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, talked about the brain cleansing... |
| Sep 11, 2014 | Theranos CEO wants to make blood tests less painful and easier to get (video) | “We see a world where everyone knows ahead of time how much a test will cost,” Holmes said. “By making the costs of tests so low, it becomes possible to engage individuals in the testing process.”
A company that can attract to their board o... |
| Sep 8, 2014 | TEDMED Hive companies push limits of digital health innovation | Sensiotec: A medical device company’s Virtual Medical Assistant vital sign monitor, which received FDA clearance in 2012, uses a sensor panel that can slide beneath a mattress or chair cushion. The makers of the device hope it will used for... |
| Sep 3, 2014 | SynapDx developing diagnostic test for autism spectrum disorder | “Our idea was to create a simple blood test to look at markers in the blood associated with autism, but not with other developmental disorders,” CEO Stanley Lapidus said.
So far, the company’s finding that the test is showing 90 percent sen... |
| Jul 2, 2014 | TEDMED goes to the movies with avant-garde films but comes up short | My problem is that the filmmakers generally make these topics even more vague and abstract than they need to be. For example, “Weird and Wonderful” by Matt Christenden could mean so many things in healthcare or science. Dogs can smell cance... |
| Jun 11, 2014 | Complex, Plural and a Constant Struggle: The Future of Health | There was a moment, when I was sitting stage-side at TEDMED 2013, when I saw the future of health. It wasn’t bright, it wasn’t full of answers; it was complex, plural and a constant struggle. And yet it was full of collegiality, hope and re... |
| Dec 30, 2013 | Here are the most viewed healthcare stories of 2013 on MedCity News | Jess Jacobs and Donna Cryer are experts on the healthcare system — professionally and personally.
Jacobs has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and describes it best in her own words:
I have an idiopathic condition. It lies somewher... |
| Nov 23, 2013 | Opportunity for 'Health & Medicine' startups: The Hive 2014 is open now! | Logo
The Hive-a TEDMED initiative-in association with the StartUp Health Network – now in its second year – is accepting applications and nominations for The Hive 2014. The applications and nominations will remain open till Wednesday, Janu... |
| Oct 31, 2013 | Inspiring spirits: These eight healthcare innovators’ minds are ‘changing the world’ | 1. Jake Andraka
This kid (yes, kid–he’s only 15 years old) came up with a way to detect cancer after a classmate died of pancreatic cancer. He’s won the Intel International Science Fair and now is among the beloved Colbert Report guests. (T... |
| Jul 24, 2013 | How can every clinical visit be used to advance medical science? | By Nancy Fliesler
When we see a satellite image of a tropical depression in the Caribbean, we’ve come to expect that, within seconds, it will get incorporated into probabilistic models shown on our TVs at home, predicting where the hurrican... |
| Jul 1, 2013 | MIT Media Lab spinoff EyeNetra raises $2M | OneSight's Mission Trip - Nairobi, Kenya
Somerville, Massachusetts-based EyeNetra, which has developed a mobile-enabled eye diagnostic tool raised $2 million in funding last week, according to an SEC filing. EyeNetra hopes to serve the... |
| May 27, 2013 | Listening To The Future With A 3D-Printed Ear | The campus of Washington State University in Southeast Washington’s agricultural region looks like a typical land-grant university. The connected mix of art-deco, modern, and post-modern buildings that collectively house the College of Engi... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Our fascination with TEDMED | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
I’ve been following the Twitter stream regarding TEDMED 2013 with interest this year, mainly because I recognized and "know" (virtually, mind you) one of the participants this year,@Zdoggmd. Seems he ... |
| Apr 9, 2013 | AirStrip ONE wins it all! | Mobisante’s MobiUS device, in addition to providing analysis and measurement of the fetus, can provide ultrasound imaging for as well as imaging for abdominal, cardiac, pelvic, pediatric, mucoskeletal, and peripheral vessels. It was co-foun... |
| Jan 25, 2013 | 3 things that must happen for patient-centered care to become the standard | Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, brought up a point that’s not talked about as much. Treating the whole patient, she said, includes thinking about the patient within his social context — considering his socioe... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | TEDMED innovation panel: We’re on the verge of a patient engagement explosion | Diego Miralles of Janssen touched on how the pressure the HIV/AIDS community exerted for the healthcare industry to develop a cure. That led to new drugs being developed. One panelist, pondering why the healthcare industry lacked that sense... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | In absence of accurate way to track medical errors, TEDMED panel ponders what’s to be done? | 6 Talk to your patients Griswold made a critical point on making patients feel comfortable enough that they can talk about or raise questions about their care. “A key challenge in safety is we don’t have to solve it ourselves. There is a tr... |
| Jan 4, 2013 | How’s TEDMED 2013 shaping up? Here are the first 10 speakers | But the big challenges movement fizzled over the course of the year. And loyalists to the old TEDMED, which Walker bought for $25 million, disliked the move to the nation’s capitol. Big names who would hang out for the entire San Diego TEDM... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Did you just use the ‘C’ word? | It’s not what you think – well, not exactly. I’m actually referring to the word “customer.” But within the healthcare industry, using it to describe patients is sacrilegious. We are perfectly comfortable using it to describe the folks that ... |
| Apr 15, 2012 | Government Poised To Provide A Huge Boost To Healthtech Startups | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal and relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcar... |
| Apr 13, 2012 | Think laterally, act vertically: Lessons at TEDMED | By Margaret Coughlin
Margaret Coughlin is a Senior Vice President and the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Here at the TEDMED conference, it’s all about horizontal or lateral thinking – coming at pro... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Washington Post Launches Its First Real-Time Ad Campaign | Thanks in large part to its personalized news aggregation technology Trove, The Washington Post has recently launched new reading experiences like Social Reader and Personal Post. Now it’s starting to use Trove on the advertising side too, ... |
| Apr 9, 2012 | What to watch for (and what to know) about TEDMED 2012 | Tuesday begins version 1 of “TEDMED: Davos edition” at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It will wrap up by Friday and roughly 1,500 people (myself included) will have their first taste of the new TEDMED. Here’s what to know and consid... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Having the will and the passion to make disruption happen: Reflections from TEDMED 2011 | By Margaret Coughlin
Margaret Coughlin is a Senior Vice President and the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Children’s Hospital Boston
Disruption. A core ideal of the TEDMED conference. I’m in a senior strategic marketing positi... |
| Nov 2, 2011 | How we’ve fought cancer so far: A brief summary | We’ve been fighting the war on cancer for forty years and although there has been a decrease in U.S. cancer deaths, the global burden of cancer has doubled over the last three decades [1]. Indeed, the leading cause of death in the world tod... |
| Complex, Plural and a Constant Struggle: The Future of Health | There was a moment, when I was sitting stage-side at TEDMED 2013, when I saw the future of health. It wasn’t bright, it wasn’t full of answers; it was complex, plural and a constant struggle. And yet it was full of collegiality, hope and re... |
| Building viruses that kill cancer cells: BeneVir gets $2M, waiting on $10M more | Immunotherapy is at the forefront of cancer care; however, most cancers evolve the ability to dodge the body’s defenses.
Maryland startup BeneVir is developing immunotherapy viruses that rid the body of two types of tumor cells – those that... |
| AirStrip ONE wins it all! | In the past few weeks the road to the mobile health version of the NCAA basketball tourney has taken many twists and turns. It started as an exercise spurred by the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearings on mobile health regulation an... |
| SynapDx developing diagnostic test for autism spectrum disorder | We don’t know the exact cause of autism – it has both environmental and genetic influences – but we do know that prevalence has increased tenfold in the past few decades, and that early intervention is critical for its treatment.
Key to ear... |
| TEDMED highlights contrast powers of the body with human frailty (video) | The international annual healthcare think tank meet-up that is TEDMED produced an interesting series of themes beyond the ones specifically outlined by TEDMED 2014 organizers. Some of the most interesting speakers revealed the fascinating b... |
| TEDMED Hive companies push limits of digital health innovation | Converting smartphones into cancer diagnostic tools, shrinking the size of vital sign monitoring devices, and helping people with impaired speech find their voice are a few examples of the innovative technology on show at TEDMED this week. ... |
| TEDMED innovation panel: We’re on the verge of a patient engagement explosion | The biggest challenge of innovation in healthcare is not so much in coming up with great ideas. It’s coming up with ideas that can fit into the systems for how providers are reimbursed and demonstrating they can improve patient outcomes.
On... |
| In absence of accurate way to track medical errors, TEDMED panel ponders what’s to be done? | The heartbreaking story of a young doctor recounting the medical mistakes she observed as a first year medical school student looking after a mother being treated for cancer reads like a worst case scenario. It didn’t matter that it was a n... |
| Allergen’s $80M fund-raise, another U.S. Ebola patient (Morning Read) | The Morning Read provides a 24-hour wrap up of everything else healthcare’s innovators need to know about the business of medicine (and beyond). The author of The Read published it but all full-time MedCity News journalists contribute to it... |
| Shkreli the gateway musical: 5 more health and life science dramas that should get a shot on Broadway | As you might have heard, Martin Shkreli is getting a dubious honor: a musical based on the drama of his purchasing exclusive rights to a one-off Wu-Tang Clan album and the lore that accompanied it. (By the way, we called it, sort of.)
It’s ... |
| Inspiring spirits: These eight healthcare innovators’ minds are ‘changing the world’ | When we say the healthcare industry is changing the world, we mean it. The Muse, in its quest to find “50 fearless minds changing the world,” named nearly 20 percent who are healthcare industry thought leaders.
The Muse and its company foun... |
| TEDMED goes to the movies with avant-garde films but comes up short | The TED talks have built a brand around influential thought leaders known for their keen ability to deliver compelling insights on complex subjects on a minimalist stage. Although TEDMED has changed ownership a few times since 1998, it’s es... |
| Did you just use the ‘C’ word? | It’s not what you think – well, not exactly. I’m actually referring to the word “customer.” But within the healthcare industry, using it to describe patients is sacrilegious. We are perfectly comfortable using it to describe the folks that ... |
| COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Change | *Covid-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredible portfolio companies have put together helpful materials and products to assist in this time of need, and we will be promoting them in this... |
| Abner Mason, Founder and CEO of ConsejoSano, gives a Hive Talk at TEDMED 2017 | Today’s doctors are practicing in a country that’s increasingly bilingual and multicultural, however our healthcare system hasn’t kept up with this changing American landscape. ConsejoSano, led by Founder and CEO Abner Mason, is working to ... |
| Theranos CEO wants to make blood tests less painful and easier to get (video) | Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’ appearance at TEDMED 2014 this week drew a lot of attention as the company prepares with Walgreens to roll out physician-ordered diagnostic test collection centers at stores around the country. She noted that ... |
| 3 things that must happen for patient-centered care to become the standard | It’s pretty clear by now that the healthcare industry is pushing away from disease-centered care and toward patient-centered care. But there are some key things that need to happen before patients will really be able to sit at the center of... |
| What to watch for (and what to know) about TEDMED 2012 | What is TEDMED?
That’s an odd question, if you’re coming from the perspective the event has been around for years. But this is not last year’s TEDMED (it’s not as heavily associated with the thought-leadership series TED as you may think).
... |
| Here are the most viewed healthcare stories of 2013 on MedCity News | 10. Our broken healthcare system defeats even the most empowered patients
Jess Jacobs and Donna Cryer are experts on the healthcare system — professionally and personally.
Jacobs has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and describes ... |
| How we’ve fought cancer so far: A brief summary | We’ve been fighting the war on cancer for forty years and although there has been a decrease in U.S. cancer deaths, the global burden of cancer has doubled over the last three decades [1]. Indeed, the leading cause of death in the world tod... |
| How’s TEDMED 2013 shaping up? Here are the first 10 speakers | Jay Walker’s TEDMED has started to unveil what 2013’s Davos of Healthcare will look like. The first 10 TEDMED speakers have been revealed. The list shows TEDMED 2013, which is set for April 16 through 19, will stick with its theme of mixing... |
