A federal jury found three former executives of health tech company Outcome Health guilty of multiple counts of fraud on Tuesday.
Rishi Shah, cofounder and former CEO, Shradha Agarwal, former president, and Brad Purdy, former chief operating officer and chief financial officer, were convicted for their roles in a $1 billion scheme that defrauded investors and clients, largely pharma companies....
Black children and kids from lower socioeconomic backgrounds were less likely to participate, share data and engage with research that used wearable devices, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
The study included wearable device data collected from more than 10,000 children ages 11 through 13 years old in the ongoing Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. ...
Seattle-based Zócalo Health, a virtual healthcare service for Latino patients, is collaborating with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) to expand its members' access to lower-cost prescription medication.
Launched in 2021, Zócalo offers Latino patients in Texas and California virtual primary care services and mental health support.
The company also offers a virtual urgent care clinic...
Clinical trial startup Inato scooped up $20 million in a Series A2 funding round led by Cathay Innovation.
The raise included returning investor Obvious Ventures and new participants La Maison and Top Harvest Capital. The company previously raised $14 million in Series A funding in 2020.
WHAT IT DOES
Inato offers a technology platform that connects pharma companies and potential clinical trial...
Amazon Pharmacy is partnering with a slew of pharma companies to offer a new feature that automatically applies manufacturer-sponsored coupons to a patient's medication order when eligible.
The tech giant's online pharmacy said it's working with GSK, Kaléo, Novo Nordisk and Dexcom to integrate coupons for their brand-name drugs, including COPD or asthma inhaler Trelegy; AUVI-Q, an injection for...
A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed an AI model to predict adverse reactions between oral anti-COVID-19 medication and prescription drugs.
Researchers from KAIST's Department of Biochemical Engineering made a new version of the DeepDDI AI-based drug interaction prediction model to check how ritonavir and nirmatrelvir, two components of...
A new study has uncovered unsafe prescribing practices promoted by some instant prescription service apps in Australia.
Done by researchers from the University of Western Australia, the study assessed the adherence to safety standards of seven prescription request apps available around the country.
FINDINGS
The findings, published in the Pharmacy journal of the Multidisciplinary Digital...
California-based Rune Labs, a precision neurology software and data platform company, is partnering with BlueRock Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company and subsidiary of Bayer AG, to aid in studying Parkinson's disease.
BlueRock will utilize Rune Labs' clinical development platform, StriveStudy, for clinical trial enrollment, real-world evidence data generation and monitoring...
Multinational pharmaceutical and biotech company Pfizer and AI-powered data company Tempus announced a multiyear strategic alliance to utilize AI and machine learning to inform drug discovery and development in oncology.
Pfizer will leverage Tempus' library of de-identified data to accelerate therapeutic development in oncology. It will also use Tempus' AI-driven companion diagnostic offerings...
Israel-based AION Labs, an AI-enabled drug discovery partnership between global pharma and tech companies, announced the launch of its second startup, DenovAI.
DenovAI will develop an AI-enabled computational biophysics platform that can discover potential antibodies directed toward specific epitopes (the part of an antigen molecule recognized by the immune system to which an antibody attaches...
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