What You Should Know:
- Bayer has announced it will no longer participate in the radiology AI software platform sector, AuntMinnie first reports.
- The company is discontinuing its Calantic Digital Solutions AI platform and services from its Blackford Analysis subsidiary. This decision marks the end of a five-year initiative by the contrast media firm to provide a radiology AI platform that helped practices integrate AI applications from various developers.
Discontinuing
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Strive Health Raises $550M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care with AI and Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Strive Health, a provider of value-based kidney care announced it has secured $550M, consisting of a $300M Series D equity round and $250M in debt financing.
- The equity funding was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with additional investments from a syndicate of leading financial institutions, including CVS Health Ventures, CapitalG, and BlackRock, Inc.. Hercules Capital led the debt financing.
- The funding will enable Strive and its team of
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Pathwork Raises $3.5M to Modernize Insurance with AI-Powered Distribution Platform
What You Should Know:
- Pathwork, an autonomous distribution platform modernizing the $160 billion life and health insurance market, has raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Costanoa, with participation from Logos Fund, American Family Ventures, Meridian Ventures, and prominent industry angels.
- The funding will help accelerate adoption among brokers and carriers nationwide.
Transforming Manual Processes into Intelligent Systems
Pathwork is an AI-native platform designed to
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How Digital Therapeutics Are Reshaping Chronic Care for the Better
Key Takeaways:
Chronic diseases are a major health and financial burden in the U.S., yet current care models remain outdated, reactive, and fragmented.Digital therapeutics (DTx) offer personalized, clinically validated, software-based interventions that provide continuous, real-time support and monitoring for chronic conditions.DTx addresses key failures in traditional care through behavioral reinforcement, AI-driven personalization, and integration with clinical workflows.Despite
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WeightWatchers Launches Menopause Program with Queen Latifah
What You Should Know:
- WeightWatchers, has announced the launch of WeightWatchers for Menopause, a new program designed to support women through every stage of their menopause journey.
- To launch the program, the company is partnering with Grammy and Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated actress and producer Queen Latifah as its first official spokesperson.
WeightWatchers for Menopause Program
The WeightWatchers for Menopause program takes a comprehensive approach, combining the
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Amazon Pharmacy Expands RxPass to Texas, Offering $5 Monthly Prescriptions for Chronic Conditions
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Pharmacy has announced the expansion of its RxPass subscription service to Texas.
- The service, which costs Prime members just $5 per month, provides access to over 50 commonly prescribed medications that treat chronic conditions like anxiety, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.
- Texas ranks fourth in the percentage of U.S. adults with three or more chronic conditions, making the expansion a significant move for the state. The
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Signos Launches First FDA-Cleared Glucose Monitoring System for Weight Management
What You Should Know:
- Signos, a metabolic and weight management company, has announced the launch of the Signos Glucose Monitoring System.
- The system is the first FDA-cleared, over-the-counter glucose monitoring system for weight management. It is also the first non-pharmacological approach cleared by the FDA for glucose management that not only helps those who are overweight but also helps prevent those who are at-risk.
Enterprise-Grade Capabilities, Consumer-Friendly
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Living Optics and NVIDIA Jetson Showcase Real-Time Hyperspectral Imaging
What You Should Know:
- Living Optics, a leader in hyperspectral imaging (HSI), has announced its latest real-time blood perfusion demonstration, which was built on the NVIDIA Jetson platform. The demonstration offers a glimpse into the future of edge AI for healthcare, life sciences, and precision imaging.
- The live demo showcases how the company’s spectral vision technology can distinguish between oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in real-time. This capability provides critical
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M&A: Remedy Meds Acquires Thirty Madison in All-Stock Deal Valued at over $500M
What You Should Know:
- Remedy Meds, LLC, a consumer virtual-care and pharmacy platform, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Thirty Madison, Inc. ("Thirty Madison").
- The transaction creates a larger, multi-brand platform across women's, men's, and metabolic health. The transaction, which is valued just north of $500M, will be funded through an all-stock deal.
Expanding Access Through a Unified Multi-Brand Ecosystem
Thirty Madison, a leading
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MedTech M&A Surges in 2025: Why Startups Are Now Ripe for Acquisition
After a few mixed years in medical technology (MedTech) mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity, 2025 is shaping up to be a landmark year, particularly among cash-rich medical device strategics. In Q1 2025, there were 57 MedTech M&A transactions totaling $9.2 billion, compared to 62 deals worth $2.7 billion in Q1 2024, according to J.P. Morgan’s MedTech sector report.
First quarter venture capital (VC)
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