By Bradley Merrill Thompson and Chris Bergstrom | Oct 27, 2017 About the Authors: Bradley Merrill Thompson is a member of the firm at Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. There, he counsels medical device, drug, and combination product companies on a wide range of FDA regulatory issues. Chris Bergstrom is a digital health leader, for The [...]
By Glenn Fox, PhD, Shaun Garland, PhD, Andrew Keibel, MD & Leslie A. Saxon, MD | Sep 14, 2017 Wearable technology can benefit health only if it leads to enduring behavior change. There are more than 1,000 commercially available wearable devices that can be paired to a software application (app) to measure and improve [...]
By Carl O'Donnell, Greg Roumeliotis | Oct 26, 2017 (Reuters) - U.S. pharmacy operator CVS Health Corp has made an offer to acquire No. 3 U.S. health insurer Aetna Inc for more than $200 per share, or over $66 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. A deal would merge one of the [...]
By Christine Hall | Oct 26, 2017 While the Raleigh area is proud of its booming IT economy, it's not sure it wants to become Silicon Valley East. Talk very long to first time visitors at Raleigh's All Thing Open (ATO) conference and sooner or later you're bound to hear the city compared to Silicon Valley. New [...]
By JULIET PRESTON | Oct 25, 2017 Dr. Stephen Kingsmore, CEO Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine On an average day in the United States, there are close to 11,000 births. Approximately 437 of those babies will be born with one of 8,000 genetic diseases, explained Stephen Kingsmore, president and CEO of Rady Children’s Institute for [...]
by Jessica Kim Cohen | Oct 18, 2017 The digital health sector raised $5.5 billion in venture capital funding during the first nine months of 2017, according to a Mercom Capital Group report. For the report, the global research firm tracked and analyzed VC funding and mergers and acquisitions activity for the digital health sector in [...]
