News – Curated by Amanda Scott
From Fragmentation to Orchestration: Building a Regenerative Health Trifecta
Introduction Healthcare is entering an era of unprecedented technological convergence. Despite extraordinary innovation, the broader health ecosystem remains fragmented across three largely disconnected domains: legacy healthcare systems, the health entrepreneurship ecosystem, and the rapidly expanding [...]
Big Pharma’s 10 highest-paid CEOs
With the passage of another year in the biz, and another slate of company earnings stacked up against one another, Fierce is finishing the 2025 tally by laying out the annual rankings of the top-paid CEOs among [...]
Scientists Just Discovered a Cellular Survival System That Was Never Supposed To Exist
Scientists Just Discovered a Cellular Survival System That Was Never Supposed To Exist A surprising backup pathway allows cells to make a crucial amino acid when their primary machinery fails. For decades, biologists believed cells had only [...]
Amid a flurry of biotech deals, China looks to keep innovation at home
The country’s new regulatory pathway promises to accelerate access to advanced therapies for Chinese patients, but may change the licensing game for foreign companies. Personalized cancer treatments, cell and gene therapies and regenerative medicine often [...]
Funding cuts drive sharp drop in HIV prevention, UNAIDS says
LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) – Almost 40% fewer people got a drug to help prevent HIV infection in 2025 than in the previous year, as global aid funding cuts hit preventive services particularly hard, early [...]
Big Pharma-backed SonoThera sounds off with $125M series B for bubble-based genetic delivery
Bay Area biotech SonoThera is bubbling to a clinical boil after raising a $125 million series B with the backing of some of the biggest names in pharma. Vida Ventures led the raise, with the venture arms [...]
Joint initiative of 5 EU countries calls for ‘unified approach’ to pharma framework amid US drug pricing pressure
With drug pricing pressure building from the U.S., a healthcare-focused consortium of five European countries is calling for a “unified approach” to strengthen Europe’s pharmaceutical framework and access to innovative medicines. Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, [...]
New book from Nanoappsmedical Inc. – Global Health Care Equivalency
A new book by Frank Boehm, NanoappsMedical Inc. Founder. This groundbreaking volume explores the vision of a Global Health Care Equivalency (GHCE) system powered by artificial intelligence and quantum computing technologies, operating on secure quantum-encrypted [...]
AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine clears first human trial
Key Takeaways Super-Antigen Technology: Uses AI and machine learning to analyze viral genomes, creating a single vaccine that targets essential features across entire virus families, including coronaviruses and Ebola. Human Trials & Safety: Phase I [...]
WHO prequalifies first-ever malaria treatment for newborns and infants
Ahead of World Malaria Day on 25 April, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a significant step forward in the fight against malaria with the prequalification of the first treatment developed specifically for newborns [...]
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo collides with conflict and hunger, WHO warns
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned that eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict” as a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak outpaces containment efforts in a region [...]
What Bundibugyo Ebola vaccines and treatments are under development
By Mariam Sunny and Jennifer Rigby May 29 (Reuters) - Global health authorities are racing to identify medical options to help contain an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, linked to the Bundibugyo [...]
Canada Places Temporary Travel Restriction On DRC, Uganda, South Sudan Over Ebola
The Government of Canada has announced temporary travel and immigration restrictions on travellers from some African countries following the latest Ebola outbreak. Naija News reports that the affected countries are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda [...]
Molecular Manufacturing: The Future of Nanomedicine – New book from NanoappsMedical Inc.
This book explores the revolutionary potential of atomically precise manufacturing technologies to transform global healthcare, as well as practically every other sector across society. This forward-thinking volume examines how envisaged Factory@Home systems might enable the cost-effective domestic [...]
Ebola, hantavirus: Is the world prepared for the next pandemic?
Funding cuts to health research and a growing antivaccine movement are making it harder than ever to respond to viruses. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that an Ebola outbreak in Uganda and the [...]
AI-enabled medical devices may fail on real-world patients, report cautions
Unlike traditional software systems that rely on deterministic rules, artificial intelligence devices frequently use predictive models trained on specific datasets. AI-enabled medical devices might perform well during testing, but some could still fail when used [...]
Health Spending Could Hit 20% of U.S. GDP by 2033
Key Takeaways U.S. health care spending reached $5.3 trillion in 2024 and is projected to grow faster than the overall economy through 2033, according to CMS actuaries. Increased service utilization, demographic changes, and rising demand [...]
May 2026 Healthcare News and Trends: Market Signals That Matter
Artificial intelligence is dominating headlines, telehealth has settled into a new normal, and digital health continues to promise transformation. However, much of what is being discussed in healthcare today reflects potential rather than reality. The [...]
NanoMedical Brain/Cloud Interface – Explorations and Implications. A new book from Frank Boehm
New book from Frank Boehm, NanoappsMedical Inc Founder: This book explores the future hypothetical possibility that the cerebral cortex of the human brain might be seamlessly, safely, and securely connected with the Cloud via a [...]
Program: AI in Health Care – From Strategies to Implementation
The AI in Health Care program from Harvard Medical School Executive Education is an eight-week online program that equips health care leaders to design, pitch and implement AI-driven solutions that improve patient outcomes, integrate AI technologies and [...]