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By Wolfgang Hackl, CEO, OncoGenomX Inc., Allschwil, Switzerland Digital health tools are becoming an integral part of childhood and adolescence. From ADHD trackers and mental-health apps to diabetes sensors, sleep monitors, fitness wearables, neurodevelopmental screeners, and educational wellbeing platforms, children and teenagers interact with more digital health technology than any generation before them. Much of [...]
By EatMoreFruit Communications Most healthcare campaigns targeting clinicians start with the product and work backwards. The most effective ones start by mapping where knowledge gaps, clinical objections, and real-world barriers exist. Here's how we approached building an insight-led strategy for a wound dressing when the data didn't exist in tidy reports. Marketing directors in medical [...]
By Klaus Boehncke, global digital health lead, Guillaume Duparc, healthcare partner, and Levin Laske, healthcare principal, L.E.K. Consulting In 2025, the world of healthcare and medical technology has been defined by increased AI adoption and integration into clinical systems, with recent findings outlining that AI-focused deals now make up 75 per cent of health tech funding. From [...]
BioNTech has closed its acquisition of CureVac, ending the subsequent offering period and setting up a push to expand mRNA design, delivery and manufacturing. The subsequent offering period expired at 12:01am Eastern Time on 18 December 2025, the company said. BioNTech said 195,341,219 CureVac shares, about 86.75 per cent of those issued and outstanding, were [...]
By EatMoreFruit Communications The way parents discover, evaluate, and trust infant nutrition information is evolving faster than ever. Traditional Google search once served primarily as a link-finder, delivering ranked webpages based on SEO keywords. Today, AI-driven search tools such as Google’s AI Overviews to Perplexity, ChatGPT, and other large language model (LLM) powered assistants, now [...]
Lucis has announced it has closed a US$8.5 million seed funding round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures, Circle.Co, and North South Ventures. The funding will enable the startup to accelerate its rollout in France, the UK, Ireland and Portugal, as well as in new markets, expand its [...]
A large real-world study has found that an AI-powered digital tool developed by Megi Health can significantly reduce blood pressure over time while maintaining high long-term patient engagement - a combination that has remained a major challenge in hypertension care. The peer-reviewed research, published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth, analysed real-world data from more than [...]
By Wolfgang Hackl, CEO, OncoGenomX Inc., Allschwil, Switzerland In precision oncology, nothing is more sensitive - or more valuable - than patient data. Genomic profiles, longitudinal symptom logs, treatment responses, tumour evolution patterns, imaging signatures, real-world toxicity data, and behavioural markers power a new generation of AI-driven oncology tools. They promise earlier detection, better prognostic [...]
Odgers’ Chris Hamilton and Mike Drew explain why cyber security leadership is now paramount for most healthcare providers In hospitals across the world, cyberattacks have moved from disrupting systems to endangering lives. When an attack locks clinicians out of patient files or disables connected medical devices, care can stall in critical moments. The line between [...]
By Kyle Lunn, managing director, health, ClearCourse AI is rapidly changing the way patients want to interact with healthcare professionals and is moving past proof-of-concept into routine clinical and administrative use. In 2026, clinics will increasingly experiment with AI Agents and conversational AI, like chatbots and assistants, as ‘digital front doors’ for patients. [...]
