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StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups

By Stephanie Baum Friday, April 15, 2022 7:49 AM

Check out news from Equiva, Healthmine, 9am.health, Forge Health and more.

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BMS and Nektar end cancer drug alliance after two more clinical trial failures

By Frank Vinluan Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:49 PM

Bristol Myers Squibb and Nektar Therapeutics are ending a cancer drug research alliance after data showed the combination of their respective drugs failed clinical trials in kidney and bladder cancers. The disappointing results come one month after the drug combo failed a pivotal melanoma clinical trial.

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Without brain data, we won't improve outcomes for patients who have neurological diseases

By Brian Pepin Thursday, April 14, 2022 1:48 PM

New technologies for quantifying behavioral information and tracking neurological patterns have the potential to change treatment—but we must connect the data.

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Outcome uncertainty suppresses patient adoption of cochlear implants

By Nancy M. Williams Thursday, April 14, 2022 1:27 PM

Some patients recognize no words at all 12 months after surgery, while others essentially have normal hearing in our analysis. This wide range of speech perception outcomes, we conclude, translates into considerable uncertainty for patients. 

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Iris Telehealth raises $40M to help hospitals, community clinics address the mental health crisis

By Michael Schroeder Thursday, April 14, 2022 12:41 PM

Concord Health Partners and Columbia Pacific Advisors led the Series B funding round. The Austin, Texas-based company said it plans to use the money to grow clinical operations, and commercial and technology teams.

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Memphis-based hospital accused of healthcare fraud involving cancer treatment

By Amanda James Thursday, April 14, 2022 12:30 PM

The U.S. government brought the suit against Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and Methodist Healthcare Memphis Hospitals, accusing the hospital system of paying millions of dollars of kickbacks to West Clinic, P.C., a cancer center with sites across the Southeast.

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Cell therapy developer Be Bio hauls in $130M for pipeline in rare disease, cancer

By Frank Vinluan Thursday, April 14, 2022 12:12 PM

Be Biopharma is developing cell therapies by engineering B cells to churn out therapeutic proteins with an initial focus on cancer and rare disease. The company's Series B financing comes as competitors in the space also make progress with their engineered B cell therapies.

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Senators pressure FDA to lower cost of hearing aids

By Amanda James Thursday, April 14, 2022 11:35 AM

Only 1 in 5 Americans use hearing aids because of the prohibitive costs — an average of $2,500 — so two senators are telling the FDA to stop dragging their feet to issue new regulations allowing over-the-counter hearing aids.

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