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MedaSystems Secures Additional Funding from Debiopharm Innovation Fund to Accelerate Global Access to Pre-approval Treatment

Digital Health Global

The funding speaks to the global nature of pre-approval access and its increasing importance in the drug development process. “ Our mutual dedication to building new approaches to pharmaceutical drug development and patient care will help bring promising pre-approval medicine to patients around the world, faster and more equitably.

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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

The FDA issued a series of four patient-focused drug development (PFDD) guidance documents which outline how patient co-design needs to successfully happen. You may now kiss the cancer survivor. She is currently contracted by Parexel as their first Patient Ambassador.

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Debiopharm Innovation Fund Launches New Seed Funding Activity to Accelerate Digital Transformation of Cancer Care and Pharma R&D

Digital Health Global

Investments will focus on the next generation of pharma R&D to accelerate drug development, on new technology solutions enabling a more patient-centric approach in clinical trials, and on digital platforms uncovering new insights from clinical data for more personalized care pathways.

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PicnicHealth Acquires AllStripes, Fortifying its Role as the Leader in Patient-Centered Healthcare Evidence Generation

Healthcare IT Today

About AllStripes ‍ Founded in 2017, AllStripes is a healthcare technology company dedicated to unlocking new treatments for people with rare diseases. To learn more about why 80% of the top Biopharma companies partner with PicnicHealth or to view our 35+ publications, visit picnichealth.com.

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Teladoc Livongo merger: what went wrong with the 'one-stop shop for virtual care' strategy?

Lloyd Price

Billed as the first and largest telemedicine company in the United States, Teladoc Health was launched in 2002 and has acquired companies such as BetterHelp in 2015, Best Doctors in 2017, and Advance Medical in 2018. Teladoc continued to grow, and by 2017 it was providing services to over 3 million patients.

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Metformin Myths and Misconceptions

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Though the drug metformin (a biguanide formed by the fusion of two guanidines) was developed in 1922 by Wermer and Bell, it was the efforts of the French physician Jean Sterne that paved the way for the use of metformin as a glucose-lowering drug. Diabetologia 60, 1566–1576 (2017). Diabetologia 60, 1620–1629 (2017).

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Genomics Startup Human Longevity’s Valuation Falls 80% from $1.6 Billion down to $310M

Lloyd Price

billion valuation in the last fundraising in early 2017, according to Lagniappe. But key facets of its business didn’t develop as planned, say people familiar with the company. It had hoped to sell analytics to pharmaceutical companies as they increasingly incorporated genetic sequencing into drug development, these people say.