Life Sciences

Pharmacist interacting online
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:38 pm May 2, 2025
Serve You Rx, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), is collaborating with Amazon Pharmacy to offer home delivery services for maintenance medication to its members. Serve You Rx members will have access to online transactions; transparent, upfront pricing; automatic refill options; 24/7 access to clinical pharmacists; customer care support; and free same-day home delivery of prescriptions in some...
Smart phone and smart watch
By  Anthony Vecchione 11:43 am May 2, 2025
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) announced it is partnering with Alcohol and Drug Services (ADS), Duke University, Google Fitbit, Morse Clinics, North Carolina Central University, Ōura, ProofPilot, Triangle CERSI and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The partnership aims to use data collected from consumer wearables to lower opioid use disorder (OUD) fatalities by creating...
Nurse consulting with patient
By  Anthony Vecchione 05:15 pm May 1, 2025
Denmark-based Teton, a company that offers an AI companion to help nurses monitor patients and optimize workflow, announced it created a real-time, live 3D reconstruction of a hospital room using Gefion, Denmark's national supercomputer. The aim is to help nurses recognize risks early, reduce paperwork and improve patient care. Operated by the Danish Center for AI Innovation, Gefion is built on...
Young person communicating with a cell phone
By  Anthony Vecchione 10:56 am May 1, 2025
Virtual teletherapy company Talkspace is teaming up with online digital safety platform Bark Technologies to offer Talkspace's mental health offering free of charge to Bark phone and Bark app users.   Bark's content monitoring platform aims to help families recognize potential dangers in children's online activities. It provides mental health support by connecting children with therapists via...
Pharmacist giving a person an injection
By  Jessica Hagen 10:51 am May 1, 2025
Plenful, a workflow-automation platform for pharmacy and healthcare operations, has secured $50 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raise to $76 million.  Dahner cofounder Mitchell Rales and Arena Holdings co-led the round, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, TQ Ventures, Notable Capital, Susa/Kivu Ventures and other investors.  The company will use the funds for...
Person interacting with a healthcare professional via tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 04:08 pm April 30, 2025
  Editor's note: This article has been updated to include Teladoc's first quarter 2025 earning results. New York-based virtual care company Teladoc Health announced it acquired mental health platform UpLift in a deal worth $30 million.  The acquisition reinforces Teladoc's game plan to increase its leadership position in virtual mental health and the ability for consumers served by the company's...
Person in a pharmacy setting
By  Jessica Hagen 02:58 pm April 30, 2025
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers is partnering with Novo Nordisk to allow Americans to access a bundled offering that includes the pharma giant's obesity drug Wegovy and a Hims & Hers membership starting at $599 per month.  Hims & Hers members will have direct access to NovoCare Pharmacy, an offering through Novo Nordisk that allows cash-paying individuals without...
Healthcare professional looking at a PC screen
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:21 pm April 30, 2025
Healthcare software company Commure has entered into a strategic partnership with virtual healthcare provider HealthTap to combine its EHR integrations, AI-enabled tools and care coordination abilities with HealthTap’s clinician network and virtual care delivery services. The companies say the alliance will allow health systems and other practices to provide expanded services, such as virtual...
Person looking at a computer screen
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:07 pm April 29, 2025
Atropos Health, a company that translates real-world clinical data (RWD) into real-world evidence, announced a strategic partnership with Ontada, a McKesson business involved in community oncology. Ontada is connected to The US Oncology Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of McKesson, which delivers real-time data, insights and research on how cancer is treated in a community. The collaboration...
Seq2Symm proteins
By  Jessica Hagen 11:42 am April 29, 2025
Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab has created Seq2Symm, an open-source AI tool that helps scientists determine the 3D shapes of certain proteins, including those found in viruses. Seq2Symm uses AI to predict a protein's 3D shape and structure from a one-dimensional sequence. The tool could help researchers better understand diseases, develop drugs and vaccines, and create more sustainable materials....