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By Jonah Comstock | 04:22 am | September 27, 2015
Teva Pharmaceuticals will acquire Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Gecko Health Innovations (previously known as GeckoCap), a smart inhaler company.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:52 am | September 24, 2015
Iodine, the crowdsourced drug review startup that launched last year, is continuing to focus on antidepressants.
By Aditi Pai | 10:52 am | September 24, 2015
Combining health tracking with incentives, rewards, and challenges can contribute to consumers' lowered blood pressure, according to a study that looked at historical data from higi, a health kiosk company.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:46 am | September 24, 2015
Merck Sharpe and Dohme (MSD), the UK subsidiary of US pharma company Merck and Co.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:03 am | September 24, 2015
A relatively large randomized control trial in Australia has shown that a text messaging program can improve not only health behaviors, but actually affect health outcomes.
By Aditi Pai | 08:13 am | September 24, 2015
CliniCloud, which started taking preorders for a smartphone connected medical kit in February, has raised $5 million in a round led by Tencent and Ping An Ventures, the investment arm of a China-based insurance, finance, and banking conglomerate.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:02 am | September 23, 2015
Glooko and Joslin's HypoMap Joslin Diabetes Center is running a small trial to pilot test a mobile health app and an online nutrition education platform for people with Type 1 diabetes, according to a ClinicalTrials.
By Aditi Pai | 03:53 am | September 23, 2015
Pharma company AstraZeneca has publicly released preclinical data from more than 50 of its medicines in order to find new drug combinations for cancer treatments.
By Jonah Comstock | 02:38 pm | September 22, 2015
Whoop, a Boston-based wearable company working on a device for athletes, announced an additional $12 million in funding as it prepares to officially launch its Whoop Strap device and performance optimization system.