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PharmaForceIQ has announced its acquisition of Aktana, aligning its cutting-edge digital orchestration platform with the industry’s premier AI-driven field Next-Best-Action (NBA) platform. The strategic move creates the industry’s first optichannel-in-a-box solution for pharma companies – an end-to-end commercial customer engagement system that can go live in as little as 6–8 weeks. This becomes the most [...]
Medtronic will invest up to US$90m in Anteris Technologies to help fund the next stage of growth and the DurAVR transcatheter heart valve programme. The Australia-founded company said the funding will support execution of its clinical strategy for DurAVR, designed to mimic a healthy human aortic valve and replicate normal aortic blood flow. Transcatheter heart [...]
Johnson & Johnson said MedTech sales rose 5.4 per cent in 2025 to US$33.8bn. The group said operational sales in its Innovative Medicine division rose 5.3 per cent year on year to about US$60.4bn. It said MedTech growth was driven by electrophysiology products, Abiomed in cardiovascular care and wound-closure products in general surgery, alongside the [...]
Electiva Healthcare has announced that it will open a new hospital in London in Summer 2026. The Electiva London Hospital aims to set a new standard in luxury and exclusivity in a new purpose-built development in South-West London on the banks of the river Thames. Sayani Sainudeen, executive chair of Electiva Healthcare, said: “This project [...]
Eleven pioneering healthtech companies from the Nordic region have been selected to bring their health innovations to the Yorkshire and Humber region as part of the Propel International Boot Camp, delivered by Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber. The selected companies are introducing a range of innovations designed to improve patient outcomes and support NHS priorities. [...]
ErVimmune has announced a first closing of a €17m Series A to develop cancer vaccines for ‘cold tumours’ that often fail to respond to immunotherapies. The Lyon-based biotech is developing therapeutic vaccines and cell therapies for cold tumours, a term used for cancers that tend to evade immune-based treatments. The funding will support clinical development [...]
Kinaset Therapeutics has raised US$103m in a Series B to move forward frevecitinib, an inhaled asthma therapy for people not controlled by standard inhalers. The Boston-based firm is developing an inhaled treatment for serious respiratory diseases. The company will use the proceeds to advance frevecitinib, an inhaled dry powder being developed for people whose asthma [...]
Why the real return on JPM, HIMSS, HLTH, and Davos is earned after the agenda, when leaders turn access into action By Gil Bashe, chair global health and purpose at FINN Partners and Health Tech World correspondent In the days following JPM Healthcare Week, one pattern comes into focus with unusual clarity. The important work [...]
Each January, millions engage in intense workout routines and rigid fitness challenges in a bid to enhance personal fitness for the year ahead. But women-led period and cycle tracker Clue warns that much mainstream fitness advice is based on a flawed assumption: that bodies perform the same way every day. For people with menstrual cycles, [...]
Health Tech World is set to celebrate game-changing innovation at its forth annual awards event. The Health Tech World Awards celebrates some of the best examples of leadership, innovation and impact spanning life sciences, medtech, digital health and beyond. The Health Tech Innovation Award honours exceptional innovations in healthcare technology that are transforming how healthcare [...]
