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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

While Europeans in the room — remembering two of the major sponsors of the meeting were Essilor (based in France) and Luxxotica (based in Italy) — are covered by the GDPR for privacy of personal data, Americans are barely covered by a patchwork privacy quilt of HIPAA, GINA, COPPA (for children online), and other bits of policy.

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Withings Founder Eric Careel : Why I Bought My Digital Health Company Back From Nokia

Lloyd Price

Careel refuses to say how much he paid to get his company back, but it’s probably safe to assume the price tag was less than what he sold it for, with little growth in sales or products under Nokia’s tutelage. It’s the way things tend to go, and ironically, a play that Nokia’s knows well.

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$100+ Billion spent on myriad of acquisitions across Pharma and Biotech industries in H1 2018

Lloyd Price

France-based Sanofi plunked down $11.6 As BioSpace noted when the deal was announced, Takeda will also take on a significant amount of debt through the deal, sending the price tag closer to $80 billion when that amount is included. The deal gave Celgene an avenue into the world of CAR-T and T cell receptor (TCR) therapies.

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