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HistoSonics gets Taiwan approval for its tumour-destroying ultrasound system as it pushes into Asia

HistoSonics has received regulatory approval from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration for its Edison Histotripsy System, a non-invasive cancer treatment device that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumours without cutting, radiation, or thermal damage. The TFDA authorisation, announced on 18 May, marks a significant step in the company’s expansion into Asia and adds Taiwan to […]

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Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown on rethinking hormone health through advanced testing

In a healthcare environment shaped by protocols and time constraints, many people often experience long journeys marked by inconclusive answers and persistent symptoms. Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown, founder of Hormone Health with Dr. Brown, positions his work in response to this gap. According to him, his approach centers on uncovering underlying imbalances rather than assigning clinical labels, […]

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66% of women felt more prepared for puberty than perimenopause. Flo Health is betting it can fix that.

  Two-thirds of American women between 38 and 50 say they felt better prepared to go through puberty than perimenopause. The statistic, from a nationally representative survey commissioned by Flo Health and conducted by Wakefield Research, captures something that decades of public health messaging have failed to fix: most women arrive at one of the […]

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Corti opens its clinical-AI stack to startups as Europe’s regulatory bill rises

The Copenhagen company says its Symphony model has outscored OpenAI on HealthBench Professional, and is offering credits and regulatory help to founders building healthcare AI worldwide. Corti, the Copenhagen-based clinical AI company, has launched a no-equity accelerator for healthcare and life sciences startups, opening its Symphony model stack to founders worldwide at a moment when […]

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BMS just signed a $15.2 billion drug deal with China’s biggest pharma company. The patent cliff left it no choice.

  Bristol Myers Squibb has signed a deal worth up to 15.2 billion dollars with Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, China’s largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalisation. The agreement covers 13 early-stage drug programmes across oncology, haematology, and immunology. None of the drugs have entered human clinical trials. The deal was announced on the same day that […]

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Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments

Ditto, an Amsterdam-based health-tech building AI-generated summaries of medical appointments for patients, has raised €7.6m, the company said on Monday. The round is led by Heal Capital with participation from Rubio Impact Ventures. Earlier backer Chris Oomen, chair of Optiverder, has also participated. The funding will support expansion into Germany, the UK, and Spain this […]

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Novo Nordisk hands shelved Parkinson’s cell therapy to Zuckerberg-backed Cellular Intelligence

Novo will take an equity stake in Cellular Intelligence and is in line for future milestone payments and royalties. The startup plans to apply its AI platform to STEM-PD, a stem-cell-derived treatment Novo discontinued last October. Novo Nordisk has handed over STEM-PD, an experimental stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease, to Cellular Intelligence, an AI biotech […]

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A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.

A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI, opened a conversation with a chatbot called Emilie, and told it he was feeling depressed. Emilie responded that she was a psychiatrist, that she had attended Imperial College London’s medical school, that she was licensed to practise in Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom, and that […]

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Why removing humans from care may undermine outcomes

The pitch deck version of digital health goes something like this: AI replaces the clinician, costs drop, access expands, outcomes improve, everyone wins. The pitch has been effective. Venture capital has poured billions into companies built around the premise that removing humans from the care loop is both possible and desirable. The premise has a […]

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