Startup finalists competed in four tracks: biopharma; devices and diagnostics; health tech aimed at consumers and self-insured employers; and health tech aimed at payers and providers. Investor judges in each track selected the winners. The post Who Won MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect? appeared first on MedCity News.
Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called “the salad bowl of the world.” Reddy can’t match the salaries offered by larger health systems —…
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One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four dogs while out for a walk near her home in rural Purlear, North Carolina. She was bleeding heavily from bites on both legs and her right arm, where she’d tried to protect her face and…
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Pfizer is in-licensing a bispecific antibody drug for cancer that China-based 3SBio designed to block the proteins PD-1 and VEGF. The deal puts the pharmaceutical giant in a growing group of companies developing bispecific antibodies for those targets, many of them with molecules originally developed in China. The post Pfizer Pledges $1.25B for Drug Candidate…
On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln Health runs the only hospital within a 75-minute drive. The facility struggles financially, given its small size and the area’s tiny population. But for over a decade, the Hugo, Colorado-based health system has remained afloat partially thanks to a surprising…
DENVER — On a bustling street corner one recent afternoon outside the offices of the Harm Reduction Action Center, employees of the education and advocacy nonprofit handed out free naloxone kits to passersby. Distributing the opioid reversal medication is essential to the center’s work to reduce fatal overdoses in the community. But how long the…
The latest Kaufman Hall mergers and acquisitions report finds an exceptional level of activity