A long and deeply-reported feature story in The Washington Post on Tuesday put a spotlight on the stark effect that an epidemic of chronic illness is taking on too many millions of Americans.”Forty years…
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GLP-1s — which lower blood sugar to help people lose weight — are taking the healthcare industry by storm and have several implications for digital health companies. This includes headwinds for established nutrition programs…
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By Shania Kennedy
October 02, 2023 – Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) have demonstrated that a tool originally designed to predict a patient’s risk level for various addictions using genetic and psychosocial factors can…
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What You Should Know:
– Phenomix Sciences, a precision medicine biotechnology company that brings data-driven precision medicine to obesity treatment, announced it has been awarded the first patent related to its obesity phenotyping technology.
– The…
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Alok Mandal, Head of Healthcare Consulting, Virtusa
Massive disparities continue to plague healthcare in the United States. Many Americans do not have access to quality care, leading to higher rates of diseases like diabetes, hypertension,…
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Background: The Noom Weight program is a smartphone-based weight management program that uses cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to motivate users to achieve weight loss through a comprehensive lifestyle intervention. Objective: This retrospective database analysis…
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Oviva has been recommended by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a safe, effective and cost-efficient way to manage complex obesity cases and tackle growing NHS waiting lists.The announcement means…
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In 2022, President Biden re-ignited the Cancer Moonshot with a call to cut the cancer death rate by half and “improve the experience of people and families living with and surviving cancer.” Both goals are ambitious…
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As the conversation around weight loss drugs grows, new modes of delivering weight management programs keep cropping up.
This time it’s Hello Alpha, a virtual primary care company geared toward women consumers and employees. The…
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What You Should Know:
Eli Lilly announced an agreement to acquire Versanis, a private clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new medicines for the treatment of…
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