E-pharmacy MrMed scores half mil for expansion
Online pharmacy MrMed has raised $500,000 from a funding round led by the Tamil Nadu Emerging Sector Seed Fund.
According to a news report, the company will use its fresh funds to expand its team and reach out to more customers.
Launched in 2021, the pharmacy startup offers specialty medicines for cancer, heart disorders, and other critical health...
AI-backed remote monitoring and digital therapeutics company Biofourmis confirmed the company's cofounder Kuldeep Singh Rajput stepped down as its CEO just one month after the company laid off 120 employees worldwide, 48 of whom were in the U.S.
"He remains committed to providing support and advice to the company going forward," Biofourmis told MobiHealthNews in an email. "We thank Kuldeep for...
Senior-focused technology company Intuition Robotics, which offers an AI-powered care companion robot for seniors experiencing loneliness, announced it closed a $25 million funding round, which includes $20 million in venture capital and $5 million in debt.
The round was led by Woven Capital, the growth fund of Toyota, with participation from OurCrowd, Toyota Ventures, Western Technology...
Finland-based Oura, maker of its namesake health tracking ring, announced it's partnering with teletherapy company Talkspace to allow Oura wearers to share their personalized sleep and daily movement data with Talkspace therapists.
Oura ring wearers can utilize the company's Share Report feature to send information about their sleep quality and movement trends over the period of a week, a month...
Analytics and market research platform Trilliant Health announced its National Provider Directory will now be publicly available and accessible via an API.
The organization's directory contains information on 2.7 million U.S. providers with over 65 million novel and proprietary data points, including provider affiliations, practice locations and practicing specialty.
Basic access to the API...
Allergy testing and treatment company Nectar Life Sciences announced the opening of the Nectar Allergy Center in New York, its first brick-and-mortar clinic, to expand its virtual care platform to a hybrid model.
Nectar, which launched earlier this year, offers at-home testing kits. Individuals can self-test for indoor or outdoor allergies and send their samples to Nectar for results.
Testers...
Value-based kidney care company Strive Health announced it signed a multiyear deal with Oak Street Health, a chain of primary care clinics geared toward the Medicare population to provide care to patients suffering from stage 4 chronic kidney disease to end-stage kidney disease.
Denver-based Strive Health offers a value-based care platform that integrates chronic kidney disease and end-stage...
Digital oncology platform Jasper Health is partnering with employer-focused third-party administration platform Covet Health to offer its cancer care support services to Covet's members.
Jasper Health provides a hybrid digital, but human-led, cancer care platform for patients and providers that offers care navigation and guidance, data insights, remote patient monitoring capabilities, cancer...
Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of the Kennedy Forum, is a leading voice on mental health and addiction. During his 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving Rhode Island's First Congressional District he coauthored and sponsored the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which requires insurers to cover mental health and substance use disorders the...
NASA announced that four astronauts will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) by August 25 on a six-month science expedition to perform research to improve healthcare options on Earth.
Launched from the Kennedy Space Center, NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts will bring multiple research investigations sponsored by the ISS National Lab.
Among the various studies, researchers from the...
