voize lands $50M to bring AI where it’s needed most: the nursing frontline
Cate Lawrence / tech - Nursing care company voize has raised $50 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Redalpine and Y Combinator. The global nursing ...
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Sofinnova Partners Raises €650M To Support Biopharma And MedTech Innovation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Life sciences venture capital firm Sofinnova Partners has closed its latest flagship fund, Sofinnova Capital XI, at €650 million ($750 million), significantly surpassing its original fundraising target. Based in Paris, London, and Milan, Sofinnova Capital…
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Apple Hit With $634 Million Verdict in Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Patent Lawsuit
Eric Slivka / macrumors - A U.S. federal jury has ruled that Apple owes medical technology company Masimo $634 million for patent infringement related to the blood oxygen-sensing technology in the Apple Watch, reports Reuters. Apple will appeal the verdict."We are pleased by this …
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Apple Fitness+ future uncertain amid internal shake-up
Asma Hussain / ithinkdiff - Apple is quietly reevaluating the future of its Fitness+ subscription service. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company has put the platform “under review” as part of a broader reorganization of its services division. Fitness+ has never quite hit…
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OpenAI says more than a million people a week show severe mental distress when talking to ChatGPT
James Farrell / siliconangle - In a report released by OpenAI today, the company illustrated just how many of its users are struggling with mental health issues and what it’s doing to mitigate the problem. Working with 170 mental health experts, OpenAI analyzed responses from its 800 m…
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Fitbit’s overhauled app and AI health coach arrive today
Allison Johnson / theverge - Fitbit's new Gemini-powered health coach is debuting in preview today, as part of an entirely new app experience that was announced back in August. Premium subscribers in the US on Android will have access to it first as it starts rolling out today, with …
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Adaptam Therapeutics raises €3M to target tumour immune evasion
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Spanish biotech startup Adaptam Therapeutics has raised €3 million in a pre-seed financing round led by Criteria Bio…
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Rhazes AI Launches First-Ever Clinical AI Pilot In A Conflict Zone
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - UK-Qatar health tech startup Rhazes AI has launched a first-of-its-kind pilot at Al Hamshari Hospital in southern Lebanon, introducing advanced clinical AI tools into one of the region’s most resource-limited medical environments. The initiative is part o…
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Sweden’s Lithea Raises €851k To Develop Targeted Therapy For Childhood Bone Cancer
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Lund-based Lithea, a biotech company developing targeted cancer treatments that deliver drugs directly into tumours, has raised €851,000 from existing investors to advance its drug delivery system and prepare its lead candidate, LIT1001, for clinical tria…
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Swedish biotech Cellcolabs raises $12M to make stem cell therapies mainstream
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The global demand for regenerative therapies is reaching new heights, but researchers and patients alike continue to face…
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Paris-based Kotcha raises €3.5 million to make elite running coaching accessible to everyone
Antonio L. Escárzaga / eu-startups - Paris-based startup Kotcha, co-founded with marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge and the NN Running Team, has raised €3.5 million in pre-seed funding to make professional running coaching available to runners worldwide. The round was led by Racine2, operated by…
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Roclub Raises $11.7M To Tackle Medtech Staffing And Access Challenges
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Munich-based roclub, a teleoperation platform for medical technology, has raised $11.7 million in a Series A round led by Smedvig Ventures and YZR Capital, with participation from Speedinvest and angel investors. roclub offers a vendor-agnostic, cloud- an…
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Kohler Launches $600 iPhone-Connected Toilet Camera That Monitors Your Health Through Waste Analysis
Juli Clover / macrumors - Kohler is expanding its line of bathroom products with Dekoda, an iPhone-connected device that's designed to be attached to a toilet rim (via The Verge). The device's included "sensors" point into the toilet bowl, allowing it to analyze what goes on in th…
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Claude enters the lab: Anthropic bets big on life sciences - Financial Times
google - Claude enters the lab: Anthropic bets big on life sciences Financial Times
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Oura launches redesigned app and ‘Cumulative Stress’ feature
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The company also shared that it's pursuing FDA clearance for blood pressure features that give users a likelihood assessment of hypertension.
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Non-drill brain monitoring startup CoMind pulls in $102.5M to make brain tracking as simple as a pulse check
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Every year, around three million Americans suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). Yet only 5% undergo intracranial pressure tests,…
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Oura raises over $900M, valuing it at "approximately $11BN”
John Reynolds / tech - Oura, the Finnish health tech startup known for its popular smart rings, has raised over $900m in a new funding round, valuing the startup at “approximately $11bn”, it said.The funding round was led b...
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Amazon will start dispensing prescription drugs through vending machines
Matt Tate / engadget - Amazon’s quest to become a genuine all-in-one healthcare solution has already seen it commit to same-day prescription deliveries, but visitors to its One Medical offices can now pick up their medication from a vending machine right after an appointment.Am…
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Apple Watch's High Blood Pressure Notifications Available in Canada Starting Today
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple today announced that its Hypertension Notifications feature on select Apple Watch models is available in Canada starting today.The feature is available on Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, Series 11, Ultra 2, and Ultra 3 models running watchOS 26. It…
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Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV Immunization
Emily Mullin / wired - The vaccine advisory group ACIP, not all members of which seemed to know what the group does, recommended to the CDC that combined MMRV shots not be given before age 4.
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