Americas
Grindr is acquiring health startup Freddie for US$250m in its first major acquisition, expanding into HIV-prevention telehealth and pharmacy services. The dating app plans to integrate Freddie’s services into Grindr Health, which brings its healthcare offerings together through an in-app portal. Freddie provides telehealth access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), medication taken before exposure to [...]
A urine RNA test identified 95 per cent of localised bladder cancers in a study and may help predict response to immunotherapy or chemotherapy. The test analyses RNA messages shed by tumour cells into urine, rather than searching for cancer-related DNA mutations as most blood and urine liquid biopsy tests do. Because RNA reflects which [...]
US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has outlined a plan to link US health data and use AI to analyse medical and lifestyle information. Kennedy said data held across government and healthcare systems should be connected and shared with independent researchers, with AI used to search for patterns linked to chronic disease. Speaking at [...]
EliseAI has raised US$350m in a round valuing the AI firm at US$4bn, expanding its automation tools for housing and healthcare systems.
GE HealthCare and Mass General Brigham are building a generative AI tool to help radiotherapy teams navigate fragmented patient data and speed up treatment.
An AI model predicted pancreatic cancer risk up to three years before diagnosis using routine health records from nearly 40,000 patients. The model analysed health histories collected over time alongside routine laboratory test results spanning an average of a decade or more. Researchers found it could distinguish between people at higher and lower risk of [...]
Smartphone ownership at age 12 was linked to higher rates of eating disorder symptoms by age 14 in a study of nearly 9,000 US adolescents. Among children who owned a phone at 12, 24 per cent reported at least one eating disorder symptom two years later. By comparison, less than 16 per cent of those [...]
Corridor has raised US$25m in seed funding for its AI health benefits service for small employers, combining human advisers with automated support. The New York startup uses AI agents to handle repetitive administrative tasks linked to health benefits while retaining human advisers. Its technology can check whether a doctor is included in an insurance plan's [...]
UltraSight has raised US$24m to expand its AI-guided cardiac ultrasound platform across US hospitals and develop intensive care and circulatory support workflows. The Israeli company said the Series B2 financing will support wider adoption of its Echosystem platform in the US and the development of additional tools for clinical settings where rapid imaging can directly [...]
DexCare has acquired Mila Health, combining its patient access technology with AI agents designed to coordinate appointments and multi-step patient journeys. Mila's technology uses AI agents that call, text and chat with patients to arrange appointments, prepare them for care and check in with them afterwards. The agents use DexCare's access data model, which standardises [...]
