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With Vera Whole Health's $370M purchase, Castlight Health to go private

By Michael Schroeder Wednesday, January 5, 2022 6:22 PM

Vera, a value-based primary care provider, will buy all the outstanding shares of Castlight, in a move that will merge the two companies.

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Flipping the script on medication adherence

By Dr. Danny Sands Wednesday, January 5, 2022 2:00 PM

The conversation about medication shouldn't end when the prescription is written. Physicians need to be accessible to patients to talk about how the medication is working for them, how often they are using it as prescribed, and what barriers they have to using it.

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Pfizer and BioNTech team up again, this time to develop an mRNA shingles vaccine

By Frank Vinluan Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:47 PM

Pfizer is paying BioNTech $225 million to kick off a new alliance aiming to develop a shingles vaccine based on the same messenger RNA technology that is the basis of the partners' Covid-19 vaccine. It's the third alliance between the two companies, but this time Pfizer brings something more to the table.

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Friendly fire: Using viruses to kill tumors and fight breast cancer

By Johanna Kaufmann Wednesday, January 5, 2022 8:15 AM

Oncolytic viruses have the power to make the tumor more visible to the immune system and mark the area of attack. It is this anti-tumor immune activation that has the potential to induce long-term responses in patients.

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