Life Sciences

Healthcare professional with infant
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:53 pm February 26, 2025
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) announced the release of The Playbook: Pediatric Digital Medicine, an industry guideline aimed at addressing the special challenges of pediatric digital health innovation and creating solutions that maximize care for children. To counter, what it calls, a lack of investment and barriers to innovation in the pediatric digital health space, DiMe is partnering...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:27 pm February 25, 2025
Silicon Valley giant NVIDIA announced a partnership with the Arc Institute and Stanford University to launch a new foundation model, Evo 2, that understands the genetic code for all domains of life.  The model, which is being touted as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, was built using the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in collaboration with Arc and...
Headshot Aubrey May Agcon
By  Anthony Vecchione 11:24 am February 25, 2025
Aubrey May Agcon of the Narrows Institute for Biomedical Research and Education is a clinical research nurse deployed at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Corona Clinic and VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, Manhattan. Agcon is speaking at next month's HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas on commonly used approaches for determining appropriate trauma...
Healthcare professionals reviewing data on a computer
By  Anthony Vecchione 10:34 am February 25, 2025
PAVmed, a medical technology company focused on devices, diagnostics and digital health, and its subsidiary, cancer care platform Veris Health, completed a $2.37 million private placement financing. Accredited investors acquired PAVmed securities priced at-the-market and shares of Veris common stock indicating a pre-money Veris valuation of almost $35 million.  The financing augments a recently...
Two adults with child
By  Anthony Vecchione 09:19 am February 20, 2025
Frontera Health, an AI-enabled autism care company, announced its launch with $32 million in seed funding. The funding round was co-led by Lux Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Bison Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Inspired Capital participating.  WHAT IT DOES The company's AI-powered tools help clinicians diagnose and treat children with autism and comparable disorders. Frontera's...
Laboratory scientists reviewing a computer-aided analysis
By  Adam Ang 12:16 am February 20, 2025
Engineers from the University of Hong Kong have developed a generative AI-based imaging method that supports cancer diagnosis.  HOW IT WORKS CytoMAD (Cyto-Morphology Adversarial Distillation) combines AI and microfluidic technology to do label-free imaging of tumours at the individual cell level. It can capture cell images "at great speed, enhance these images, and automatically correct...
Healthcare professional reviewing imaging on a screen
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:00 pm February 19, 2025
Aidoc has received FDA clearance for a computer-aided rib fracture triage offering (CADt AI) powered by a foundation model. CADt AI is image processing prescription software designed to aid in prioritization and triage of radiological medical images. The FDA clearance relates to Aidoc's Rib Fractures triage tool, which the company describes as a new version built on its CARE1 Foundation Model (...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:16 pm February 19, 2025
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers has acquired at-home lab testing facility Sigmund NJ LLC, also known as Trybe Labs. Hims & Hers said the acquisition of the New Jersey-based testing facility will allow customers to take better control of their health and permit providers to access a range of data and biomarkers that may help identify risk of disease before it develops....
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By  Anthony Vecchione 02:09 pm February 18, 2025
Google announced it is partnering with the Institute of Women's Cancers, founded by France's cancer research and treatment center, Institut Curie, to study how AI tools can help address cancer, share science-based health information and support postdoctoral researchers with funding. The partnership, which was announced at the France AI Action Summit, combines Institut Curie’s proficiency in...
DoseSpot Connect
By  Jessica Hagen 03:00 pm February 17, 2025
DoseSpot, an electronic prescribing platform that enables providers to send prescriptions directly to a patient's pharmacy from a clinic, is launching DoseSpot Connect – a product suite designed to give patients instant access to pharmacies offering their prescribed medication at the lowest cost. "Connect is giving patients transparency and choice with their medications that they've never had...