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Novo agrees $2.6B deal for preclinical GLP-1/GIP drug from in - Fierce Biotech
Novo Nordisk is acquiring a preclinical GLP-1/GIP drug from a Chinese developer in a deal valued at $2.6 billion. This move signals Novo's aggressive pipeline expansion beyond its existing blockbusters, tapping into the
Precision Neuroscience taps $250M in Series D funding for brain - Fierce MedTech
Precision Neuroscience secured $250 million in an oversubscribed Series D round for its brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. This significant capital infusion will accelerate development and clinical trials for the
Lilly sets up next-gen obesity battle with full phase 3 retatrutide data - Fierce Biotech
Eli Lilly unveiled full Phase 3 data for retatrutide, its triple-G obesity drug, showing over one-third of patients on the highest dose achieved at least 25% weight loss. This positions Lilly to intensify competition in
Enanta sheds staffers as key antiviral, immunology readouts loom - Fierce Biotech
Enanta Pharmaceuticals is laying off 37 employees as it pivots to immunology while awaiting key antiviral readouts. This strategic workforce adjustment highlights the pressures on biotech firms to streamline operations a
uniQure stock crashes as Huntington’s gene therapy data weaken - Fierce Biotech
uniQure's stock plummeted 41% after its Huntington's disease gene therapy, AMT-130, showed limited efficacy in slowing disease progression at 48 months. Despite the primary endpoint miss, analysts remain optimistic due t
ai3Bio emerging from stealth to ‘take the gun out of the hands of the immune system’ - Fierce Biotech
ai3Bio launched from stealth with $48 million in funding to develop T-cell targeting therapies for autoimmune diseases. The biotech aims to precisely modulate immune responses, moving beyond broad immunosuppression. This
Opinion: America’s biotech race with China must be won at home - STAT News
The US must prioritize domestic investment in biotech to win its strategic race with China, argue Gary Locke and Patrick McHenry. This opinion piece highlights the critical need for robust internal R&D and manufacturing
Naya Raipur’s 200-acre Medicity to reshape healthcare in Chhattisgarh - Express Healthcare India
Naya Raipur is developing a 200-acre 'Medicity' to enhance healthcare in Chhattisgarh, focusing on super-specialty treatment, medical education, and research. This ambitious project aims to attract medical tourism and si
Visionflex Group (ASX:VFX) - FY26 Results Reveal Near-Breakeven Turnaround in Telehealth Revenue - Google News Digital Health Global
Visionflex Group (ASX:VFX) - FY26 Results Reveal Near-Breakeven Turnaround in Telehealth Revenue. A HealthTechDaily desk brief based on reporting from Google News Digital Health Global. Tap through for the full article,
Beware of e-mails asking for digital health verification, says MOH - Google News Digital Health Global
The Ministry of Health (MOH) issued a global alert warning against phishing emails requesting digital health verification. Scammers are directing users to verify personal details via malicious links, posing a significant
AI firm DYAD raises over £7m to expand into secondary care - Home - Google News Digital Health India
UK-based AI firm DYAD secured over £7 million in funding to expand its AI-powered diagnostic tools into secondary care settings. This investment will enable DYAD to scale its technology, which automates clinical workflow
Painkillers, antibiotics, and kidney disease: Why has drug regulator issued a fresh warning? - The Hindu Health
Painkillers, antibiotics, and kidney disease: Why has drug regulator issued a fresh warning. The regulator has asked the public not to take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or antibiotics indiscriminately,
Oxurion enters into exclusive negotiations to acquire the business and assets of Eclevar, a MedTech-focused… - Google News Digital Health Global
Oxurion enters into exclusive negotiations to acquire the business and assets of Eclevar, a MedTech-focused… ActusNews.
mlHealth360 appoints Dr Srikanth Sola as CMO - Express Healthcare India
mlHealth360 has appointed Dr Srikanth Sola as Chief Medical Officer. In his new role, Dr. Sola will work closely with physicians, healthcare organisations and hospital leadership to ensure that mlHealth360’s AI solutions
We need to embrace digital health solutions to improve supply chains – MoH – Zambia - Google News Digital Health India
We need to embrace digital health solutions to improve supply chains – MoH – Zambia News Diggers!
Apollo Knowledge and BITS Pilani partner to advance healthcare research - Express Healthcare India
Apollo Knowledge and the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) have come together to work on healthcare research, education and workforce development. The two signed a Memorandum of Understandin
BarcodeMAE+: Rethinking Masked Pretraining and Global Representations for DNA Barcode Foundation Models - arXiv q-bio
arXiv:2609.35877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many DNA foundation models are pretrained by masking parts of a sequence and asking the model to reconstruct them. Standard masked pretraining exposes the encoder to specia
Safer Content or Firmer Refusals? A Hybrid Perturbation Defense for Alignment under Harmful Fine - arXiv cs.AI
arXiv:2609.36862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning-as-a-service lets users adapt a safety-aligned language model to their own data, but it also creates a harmful fine-tuning attack surface: a small amount of h
GenoTrace: Inheritable Watermarks for Genome Foundation Model Distillation - arXiv q-bio
arXiv:2609.35881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can a genome model retain a detectable record of the synthetic sequences used to train it? We study watermark inheritance through distillation with GenoTrace, a codon-awa
Which Attention Heads are like the Human Head? Not the Ones that Compute - arXiv q-bio
arXiv:2609.37991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain-AI alignment is often interpreted as a sign that model and brain perform similar computations. Whether the aligned units are causally involved in model computation
Estimating the Causal Effects of T Cell Receptors - arXiv q-bio
arXiv:2410.14127v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A central question in human immunology is how a patient's T cell receptors impacts disease. Here, we introduce a method to infer the causal effects of T cell rece
Causal pieces: analysing and improving spiking neural networks piece by piece - arXiv q-bio
arXiv:2504.14015v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce "causal pieces", a novel concept for analysing spiking neural networks (SNNs), inspired by "linear pieces" used to study expressivity and trainabilit
Reward Valuation in Large Language Models: Causal Induction of Anhedonia - arXiv q-bio
arXiv:2607.06626v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent frontier models mimic complex aspects of human cognition. Here we ask whether this alignment extends into reward valuation, which we assess in a mechanisti
AI, robotics, MedTech innovation, and connected care show new possibilities for patient care - Google News Digital Health India
AI, robotics, MedTech innovation, and connected care show new possibilities for patient care. Medical Fair Asia, Medical Manufacturing Asia, and the inaugural RehaCare Asia conclude three days of technology showcases, cl
The question of access - The Hindu Health
The question of access. On the price and safety of medicines, changing vaccination needs, AI in medicine, prevention and new research.
Delhi HC sets aside FSSAI order directing Red Bull India to drop ‘energy’ from drinks - ETHealthworld Top Stories
The Delhi High Court has annulled an order from FSSAI regarding Red Bull India's product labeling. Justice Amit Mahajan ruled in favor of the company on the grounds of natural justice. The court has allowed FSSAI to issu
IHH plans to raise Fortis stake to 51%, expand capacity to 10,000 beds by 2031 - ETHealthworld Top Stories
IHH Healthcare aims to raise its stake in Fortis Healthcare to 51 percent within three to five years. The company intends to increase Fortis' total capacity to around 10,000 beds by 2031. This decision follows a Supreme
Telehealth to hit $198.9b fuelled by ageing, underserved groups - Google News Digital Health Global
Telehealth to hit $198.9b fuelled by ageing, underserved groups. The telehealth and telemedicine market is projected to reach $198.9b by 2031, driven by the growing number of geriatric and medically underserved populatio
National policy summit pitches stronger MedTech ecosystem - Google News Digital Health Global
National policy summit pitches stronger MedTech ecosystem. Participants discuss innovation, regulation, financing and adoption of medical technologies in the country.
ŌURA Modernizes Health Tech - theknockturnal.com - Google News Digital Health UK
ŌURA Modernizes Health Tech - theknockturnal.com. A HealthTechDaily desk brief based on reporting from Google News Digital Health UK. Tap through for the full article, including figures, quotes, and next steps.
CodeClouds Launches Free AsterMD Beta for Companies Building New Telehealth Platforms - Google News Digital Health Global
CodeClouds Launches Free AsterMD Beta for Companies Building New Telehealth Platforms. A HealthTechDaily desk brief based on reporting from Google News Digital Health Global. Tap through for the full article, including f
Emergency room intervention pairs smartphone and telehealth counseling to reduce risky firearm behavior - Google News Digital Health Global
Emergency room intervention pairs smartphone and telehealth counseling to reduce risky firearm behavior. A HealthTechDaily desk brief based on reporting from Google News Digital Health Global. Tap through for the full ar
FDA Investigation Leads to Charges Against Two Indian Nationals Involved in Transnational Counterfeit Drug Distribution Scheme - FDA Newsroom
FDA Investigation Leads to Charges Against Two Indian Nationals Involved in Transnational Counterfeit Drug Distribution Scheme. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida and the Criminal Division of t
STAT+: Lawmakers urge Trump to rethink new rule that could restrict imported meds from Canada and overseas - STAT News
STAT+: Lawmakers urge Trump to rethink new rule that could restrict imported meds from Canada and overseas. Some lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to rethink a pending rule that may prevent Americans from obt
Inside the telehealth GLP-1 boom: texts say take weight-loss drugs and ‘keep eating what you love’ - Google News Digital Health UK
Inside the telehealth GLP-1 boom: texts say take weight-loss drugs and ‘keep eating what you love’ The Australian.
Is telemedicine the future of joint health and GI care? - Google News Digital Health India
Is telemedicine the future of joint health and GI care. Hinge Health’s CEO talks about founding the company and the recent Cylinder acquisition.
Sanara MedTech stock faces a merger vote after Q2 loss - Google News Digital Health Germany
Sanara MedTech stock is heading toward a September 30, 2026 merger vote after Q2 revenue reached USD 28.14 million. Adjusted EPS missed consensus at USD -0.05.
STAT+: Beam Therapeutics sues Chinese biotech, VC - STAT News
STAT+: Beam Therapeutics sues Chinese biotech, VC. The gene-editing company Beam Therapeutics is alleging that one of its scientists stole intellectual property and used it to co-found a Chinese company that made a deal
388 Ayushman Cards Issued to Contract Labourers Across North Central Railway Divisions - Google News Digital Health India
388 Ayushman Cards Issued to Contract Labourers Across North Central Railway Divisions. The initiative has been undertaken on the directions of North Central Railway General Manager Naresh Pal Singh. So far, 145 Ayushman
Shukra Pharmaceuticals shareholders approve name change to Shukra Medtech - Google News Digital Health India
Shareholders approved changing the company name to Shukra Medtech Limited. Amendment to the MOA object clause was also passed via postal ballot. Promoters voted in favor of both resolutions with 100% support. Overall app