Over the past few years, more and more people have recognized the power of the blockchain to transform industries. In the over regulated, bureaucratic healthcare market, this is especially the case. Blockchain technology and innovative companies have the ability to revolutionize this market, create tremendous value, improve patient outcomes, create new treatments and pharmaceuticals while creating incredible companies that richly reward founders and management. Linda Health is one such company that is changing the market place with the blockchain. They have created a virtual medical assistant that is changing lives.
An estimated 300 million Chinese people are smokers. China has also a serious issue with hazardous air pollution. Here concentrations of small, breathable particles (PM2.5) invariably exceeding 300 micrograms per cubic meter in the industrialized northern regions.
Peptidream Inc. has scored another billion dollar-plus agreement to develop peptide-based therapies aimed at the treatment multiple disease targets.
A venture capital firm in the Netherlands — backed by some big names in Big Pharma — has raised $95 million in a new fund to fuel European biotech startups.
Clinical development has historically been a laborious and expensive process that stretches across all therapeutic areas. It is driven by lengthy patient recruitment timelines, increasingly complex study designs, and high procedural costs. Depending on whose data you believe, getting a new drug to market can now cost upwards of $1 billion and take more than 10 years or research and development effort. Additionally, a complex and dynamic regulatory framework has made sponsors reluctant to introduce new technologies to facilitate the development process.
The quest to better detect cancer has made a potentially huge strides. A study out of Yokohama, Japan, has potentially harnessed artificial intelligence to help detect colorectal cancer even before benign tumors become malignant.
Global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have saved an estimated 53 million lives since 2000 and reduced the TB mortality rate by 37%, according to the Global TB Report 2017, released by WHO today.
A research team at the University of Texas, US, is set to develop an affordable at-home diagnostic test for patients with heart failure.
Roche has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its cobas Zika test to detect RNA of the Zika virus in human plasma samples.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) approved the FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System, the first continuous glucose monitoring system that can be used by adult patients to make diabetes treatment decisions without calibration using a blood sample from the fingertip (often referred to as a “fingerstick”).
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