Click will fold Better Therapeutics’ FDA-cleared AspyreRx prescription digital therapeutic into R&D for its own CT-181, which promises to optimize obesity treatment in combination with drugs such as GLP-1s and provide "valuable real-world data insights for providers and payers." Better Therapeutics shuttered its operations in March, signaling continued challenges for digital medicine innovators.
Click Therapeutics, Inc.’s acquisition of Better Therapeutics, Inc.’s AspyreRx – the first FDA-authorized prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) for type-2 diabetes – among other assets, reflects the company’s growing focus on obesity and cardiometabolic disease amid the GLP-1 agonist boom.
“There is immense potential in the cardiometabolic space for next-generation ‘smart’ therapeutics that enhance patient care and provider capabilities,” says...
When a large medtech company sets up a venture fund, it typically invests in technologies that are adjacent to its pre-existing portfolio. Intuitive Surgical’s approach is different.
Spain has one of the highest incarceration rates in Europe, with 160 individuals imprisoned per 100,000 residents. In 2020, 43,494 people were incarcerated in facilities not managed by regional health authorities — essentially all regions except Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Navarra.
Biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has partnered with start-up “unicorn” Owkin to develop an AI-powered tool to prescreen for gBRCA mutations on the basis of morphological features in digitized pathology slides. Built on extensive, high-quality data sourced from the France-based PortrAIt consortium, the AI will help to prioritize patients for further testing, streamlining the diagnostic process, Owkin says.
This week, Establishment Labs Holdings announced the FDA gave it premarket approval for Motiva breast implant, Cologuard lands FDA approval for Cologuard Plus and GE HealthCare gets FDA nod for a new imaging agent. The FDA announces another expansion for TAP into ophthalmology and radiology. The AAMI and CTA will join forces to develop standards for AI and ML-enabled health care products.
