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FDA Approves Drug to Treat Pain Without Opioid Effects

FDA Approves Drug to Treat Pain Without Opioid Effects

Apple Vision Pro finds home in healthcare. Biotech accelerator Curio.Bio raises $340M. Epic's relentless expansion.

Sid Bhargava
February 5th, 2025

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FDA approves Journavx, new non-opioid painkiller from Vertex: ‘An important public health milestone’

The drug could become an alternative to the opioids that stoked an epidemic of dependency and overdoses

Approval comes on the heels of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family agreeing to pay a $7.4B settlement.
VRTX is up 6% since the announcement.

How Apple Vision Pro is finding a home in healthcare

300 people gather in San Diego to explore the uses of Apple Vision Pro for surgery and other applications

Biotech accelerator Curie.Bio raises $340 million for a new seed fund

Curie.Bio’s new fund will help the organization double its investing over the next two years

VideaHealth Raises $40M Series B to Revolutionize Dental Care with AI

New capital will accelerate market expansion, partnerships, and product development to improve dental care for millions of patients

Kode Health raises $27M for on-demand medical coders

Kode is currently generating "well over" $10 million in revenue

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Epic Beyond the Provider Empire

Health Grid’s systematic expansion into new healthcare domains

Health systems embrace AI scribes as business booms

Racing to combat burnout, health systems and doctors are flocking to technology at an unprecedented pace

The Robot Doctor Will See You Now

Research suggests physicians are undervaluing how artificial intelligence can improve medical care

Research

Screening performance and characteristics of breast cancer detected in the Mammography Screening with AI trial

Emerging evidence suggests that AI can increase cancer detection in mammography screening while reducing screen-reading workload

Largest randomized controlled trial involving over 100,000 women undergoing mammography.
AI improves cancer detection by 29% without increasing false positives.

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Biotech Private Financings by therapeutic area and modality
Neuro/ Respiratory/ Muscular - key areas
Image: Evercore
— Paras Sharma (@paras_biotech)
3:29 PM • Feb 1, 2025

Here is an excellent graph which demonstrates how each one of the big Pharma companies - that were once diversified conglomerates, has unloaded its side businesses in order to focus on developing Biotech-style medicines & treatments. $NVO $BMY $AZN $PFE $ABBV $LLY $JNJ $MRK $XBI
— Yair Einhorn (@yaireinhorn)
8:21 PM • Feb 3, 2025