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HLTH Partners with ATA to Highlight Telehealth Solutions and Accelerate Adoption of Virtual Care
20 Aug 2019
HLTH, the largest and most important conference for health innovation, announced today a new partnership with ATA, the premier organization ...
FDA Approves TAVR for Low-risk Patients Creates A Paradigm Shift in Cardiology
20 Aug 2019
FDA Approves Sapien 3, CoreValve Evolut TAVR valves for low-risk patients, TAVR now available for all patients with severe, symptomatic aort...
AbbVie Scores Blockbuster Approval for RA Med Rinvoq, its Crucial Humira Follow-up
20 Aug 2019
The second of AbbVie’s highly anticipated 2019 blockbuster candidates is here. On Friday, the FDA greenlighted Rinvoq, a rheumatoid arthri...
Celgene Wins Approval for Drug key to Bristol Buyout
20 Aug 2019
Dive Brief: Celgene on Friday won U.S. approval for Inrebic, a treatment for myelofibrosis that is one of five drugs Bristol-Myers Squibb re...
MyHealthTeams Lands $9.44M to Expand Social Networks for Chronic Condition Communities
20 Aug 2019
MyHealthTeams, a San Francisco, CA-based creator of the largest and fastest-growing social networks for people facing chronic health conditi...
Nomad Health Lands $34M to Double Staff, open NC Office
20 Aug 2019
The new funding was led by Icon Ventures with participation from Polaris Partners, RRE Ventures, .406 Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. New ...
OSF Ventures Joins $35M Funding Round for Handheld Ultrasound Device
20 Aug 2019
OSF Ventures has joined a $35 million funding round to support a start-up that’s developing a breakthrough handheld, AI ultrasound device ...
Nurx Gets Another $52 Million to Deliver Mail-Order Birth Control, PrEP, STI Test Kits
20 Aug 2019
Kleiner Perkins and Union Square Ventures led the Series C, which will help the company grow its offering suite and userbase. Online reprodu...
Sage Growth Partners Brings on its Fifth Client in the Virtual Care Space
20 Aug 2019
Sage Growth Partners (SGP), a Baltimore-based healthcare research, strategy, and marketing firm, today announced that it has been engaged by...
Mayo Clinic Backs Imago Systems to “Re-Visualize” The Mammogram for Breast Cancer Detection – – HIT Consultant
20 Aug 2019
Mayo Clinic has signed a know-how license agreement with Imago Systems, a medical imaging company with an advanced machine learning software...
Novartis Names New Scientific Officer in Wake of AveXis Data Scandal
20 Aug 2019
Page Bouchard was named senior vice president and chief scientific officer of AveXis, the gene therapy unit of Novartis wrapped in a scandal...
Many Clinical Trials For New Cancer Drugs Didn’t Include Any Data On Race
20 Aug 2019
One-third of the clinical trials that led to new cancer drugs approved between 2008 and 2018 didn’t report on the race of trial participan...
Medable joins American Heart Association’s Center for Health Technology & Innovation Innovators Network
20 Aug 2019
Medable gets an opportunity to simultaneously improve clinical care and advance clinical research in collaboration with the American Heart A...
Zingbox Named to Constellation ShortListTM for Medical Device Security
20 Aug 2019
Company Recognized as a Next-Generation Platform to Secure IoT Devices in Healthcare Zingbox, provider of the world’s most widely deployed...
Pay-to-Play Clinical Trials; Immune Tx Rationing; Small Pharmacies, Big Opioid Pushers
20 Aug 2019
Pay-to-Play Clinical Trials Federal regulators are paying more attention to “pay-to-play” clinical trials that offer admission f...
U Maryland Campuses Partner on AI, Cybersecurity for Medical Data
20 Aug 2019
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County and UM Baltimore have partnered to pair medical research with AI, machine learning, and cyberse...
NHS Scheme To Support People At Risk Of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Through Digital Means Expanded
20 Aug 2019
In pilot schemes, access to digital advice led to an increase in the number of people that committed to the programme. People at risk of dev...
Health Checks Could Become More Personalised
20 Aug 2019
The NHS Health Check service could become more personalised with new intelligent, predictive checks, taking age, risk factors and lifestyle ...
CashMD Launches Next Generation Healthcare Platform, Bringing Transparency To Healthcare Industry
20 Aug 2019
CashMD today announced the launch of cashmd.com, a one-of-a-kind online healthcare platform offering transparent pricing for virtually all h...
Millennials Demand More Total Wellbeing Support In New Report
20 Aug 2019
As the largest of all generations, Millennials’ purchasing power and influence continues to grow. Healthcare is no exception, especially w...