Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown on rethinking hormone health through advanced testing
Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown on rethinking hormone health through advanced testing

In a healthcare environment shaped by protocols and time constraints, many people often experience long journeys marked by inconclusive answers and persistent symptoms. Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown, founder of Hormone Health with Dr. Brown, positions his work …

66% of women felt more prepared for puberty than perimenopause. Flo Health is betting it can fix that.
66% of women felt more prepared for puberty than perimenopause. Flo Health is betting it can fix that.

  Two-thirds of American women between 38 and 50 say they felt better prepared to go through puberty than perimenopause. The statistic, from a nationally representative survey commissioned by Flo Health and conducted by Wakefield Research, captures som…

Corti opens its clinical-AI stack to startups as Europe’s regulatory bill rises
Corti opens its clinical-AI stack to startups as Europe’s regulatory bill rises

The Copenhagen company says its Symphony model has outscored OpenAI on HealthBench Professional, and is offering credits and regulatory help to founders building healthcare AI worldwide. Corti, the Copenhagen-based clinical AI company, has launched a n…

BMS just signed a $15.2 billion drug deal with China’s biggest pharma company. The patent cliff left it no choice.
BMS just signed a $15.2 billion drug deal with China’s biggest pharma company. The patent cliff left it no choice.

  Bristol Myers Squibb has signed a deal worth up to 15.2 billion dollars with Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, China’s largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalisation. The agreement covers 13 early-stage drug programmes across oncology, haematology, …

Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments
Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments

Ditto, an Amsterdam-based health-tech building AI-generated summaries of medical appointments for patients, has raised €7.6m, the company said on Monday. The round is led by Heal Capital with participation from Rubio Impact Ventures. Earlier backer Chr…

Novo Nordisk hands shelved Parkinson’s cell therapy to Zuckerberg-backed Cellular Intelligence
Novo Nordisk hands shelved Parkinson’s cell therapy to Zuckerberg-backed Cellular Intelligence

Novo will take an equity stake in Cellular Intelligence and is in line for future milestone payments and royalties. The startup plans to apply its AI platform to STEM-PD, a stem-cell-derived treatment Novo discontinued last October. Novo Nordisk has ha…

A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.
A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.

A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI, opened a conversation with a chatbot called Emilie, and told it he was feeling depressed. Emilie responded that she was a psychiatrist, that she had attended Imperial College Lond…

Why removing humans from care may undermine outcomes
Why removing humans from care may undermine outcomes

The pitch deck version of digital health goes something like this: AI replaces the clinician, costs drop, access expands, outcomes improve, everyone wins. The pitch has been effective. Venture capital has poured billions into companies built around the…

UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease
UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease

The Belgian pharma is buying a two-year-old San Diego biotech for $2bn upfront, the second TCE bet it has placed in months. The thesis: B-cell killers built for cancer can rewire how autoimmune diseases are treated. Candid Therapeutics is two years old…

The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable
The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable

The company that built TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, the system that predicts with unsettling accuracy what a person wants to watch next, is now using a related class of AI to predict how molecules will behave inside a human body. ByteDance’s drug…