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Saturday, December 9, 2023

Software & Data

AstraZeneca Launches Evinova, A Company Offering Digital Solutions for Clinical Trials

AstraZeneca has unveiled a new standalone company, Evinova, aimed at providing contract research organizations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies with access to its established digital solutions for conducting clinical trials. With a team of 300 members drawn from AstraZeneca and spanning nine countries, Evinova will offer a "drug development suite" based on proven trial solutions employed across AstraZeneca's disease areas...

Medical Devices

Consumer Internet

Masimo Receives FDA Clearance for Groundbreaking Wearable

Masimo, a global leader in non-invasive monitoring technologies, has achieved a significant milestone with the FDA granting 510(k) clearance for its groundbreaking medical watch, the Masimo W1. This clearance allows both over-the-counter and prescription use of the watch, marking a major advancement in continuous monitoring capabilities for real-time oxygen saturation (SpO2) and pulse rate...

Biotech

Merck Expands Presence in Neurodegenerative Research with Caraway Therapeutics Acquisition

In a strategic move to bolster its research presence in neurodegenerative diseases, Merck & Co. has announced its acquisition of private biotechnology company Caraway Therapeutics. The deal, valued at up to $610 million, includes an undisclosed upfront payment along with conditional milestone payments...

Features

Taldefgrobep Alfa by Biohaven Could Change The Weight-Loss Drug Landscape

Biohaven, a Connecticut-based biopharmaceutical company, is exploring a potential game-changer in the weight-loss drug landscape with its investigational drug, taldefgrobep alfa. In a market dominated by blockbuster drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, which belong to the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist class, Biohaven aims to address concerns about the quality of weight loss generated by existing medications...

Popular Articles

The Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2022

The Healthcare Technology Report is pleased to announce the Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2022. This year’s list comprises a wide array of some of the most accomplished executives in the healthcare technology industry...

The Top 25 Women Leaders in Biotechnology of 2022

The Healthcare Technology Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Women Leaders in Biotechnology of 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic saw an explosion in biotech funding in 2020 and 2021. And while that funding has declined somewhat this year, the added attention the industry has received means funding will likely never return to its previous levels...

The Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2022

The Healthcare Technology Report is pleased to announce The Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2022. The awardees on this year’s list represent the absolute best in the healthcare technology space. From companies like Novartis with more than 100,000 team members around the globe, to numerous smaller startups with just a few dozen employees in a single office, these companies are changing the face of the industry...

The Bargain Genome: Illumina Cuts Price to $200 With New Sequencer Machines

The costly process of genome sequencing is getting a price cut thanks to genetic variation and biological function analysis solutions company Illumina. Illumina’s HiSeq x Ten Machine dropped the price of sequencing a genome to $1,000 in 2014, and now the company claims its two-pronged NovaSeq X Series machines...

The Top 25 Women Leaders in Consumer HealthTech of 2022

The Healthcare Technology Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Women Leaders in Consumer HealthTech of 2022. The awardees on this year’s list represent some of the most innovative companies in the healthcare technology space. They provide their organizations with steady leadership and deep knowledge in their respective specialties, piloting their companies through ever-changing market conditions...

The Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2021

The Healthcare Technology Report is pleased to announce The Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2021. This year’s awardees comprise a broad range of companies from well-known names like Johnson & Johnson, 3M Health Care, and Illumia to relatively newer but rapidly growing enterprises such as GRAIL, Capsule, and DNA Script...

Two Big-Hit Breast Cancer Drug Trials Add to AstraZeneca’s Streak

Finding results in a space where its rivals have consistently fallen short, British drugmaker AstraZeneca (AZ) is proudly touting the success of two of its experimental breast cancer drugs in separate clinical trials. The first, capivasertib, rose to meet both of its goals in a phase-3 trial consisting of breast cancer patients...

Voice Analysis AI for Mental Health

A new mental health-focused partnership between Ellipsis Health and Ceras Health aims at empowering real-time severity scores of anxiety and depression in an effort to support patient care. Ellipsis, a large presence in AI-powered human voice biomarker tech, will integrate its processes into the Ceras’ clinical monitoring platform...

The Top 25 Women Leaders in Medical Devices of 2022

The Healthcare Technology Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Women Leaders in Medical Devices of 2022. With the medical device industry advancing at an unprecedented rate, new and exciting developments in robotics, materials science, analytics, and other technologies have accelerated the production of breakthrough devices that are improving outcomes for patients...