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J&J Says the FDA Authorised Its OTTAVA Surgical Robot — Almost Nothing in the Announcement Can Be Checked Yet
The release never says "nine procedures". Both performance claims cite unpublished internal documentation. And the FDA d...
Medtronic Is Notifying 3.8 Million People of a Data Breach — Here's What It Means for Patients
Medtronic, the world's largest medical device maker, is notifying 3,834,294 people that a data breach of its corporate I...
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The FDA Is Reviewing 7 Peptides on 23–24 July — Here's What That Does and Doesn't Mean
The FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee will review seven peptides — BPC-157, KPV, TB-500, MOTS-c, Emideltide...
Researchers Push Back on the FDA's 2026 Wellness-Device Guidance — What It Means for Wearable Owners
A Nature Biomedical Engineering Comment published on 23 June 2026 argues that the FDA's 2026 General Wellness guidance l...
Harvard Just Waded Into the Longevity Hype — and Its Main Message Is 'Do the Boring Stuff First
Harvard Health Publishing released its first-ever report dedicated to longevity science. For consumers facing a crowded...
Your Fitness Tracker Wants to Be a 'Health Platform' Now — What That Means for Your Wallet and Your Data
Oura, Whoop, Garmin and others are turning rings and watches into subscription 'health platforms' built around sleep, st...
Singapore's Healthy 365 App Gets a 'Wayfinding' Feature From June 2026 — Nudging You to the Park Down the Street
From June 2026, Singapore's Health Promotion Board is adding a 'wayfinding' feature to its free Healthy 365 app to point...
The FDA wants clinical trials to report in real time, with AI doing the watching
The US Food and Drug Administration has started two pilot trials that send their results to the agency as the data comes...
Bayesian Health Wins First FDA Clearance for Continuous AI Sepsis Monitor, Study Shows 18% Mortality Drop
Bayesian Health's TREWS system became the first AI device cleared by the FDA to continuously monitor all hospitalised pa...
Commure Raises US$70M at US$7B Valuation to Deploy AI Agents Across Hospital Administration
On 19 May 2026, Commure closed a US$70 million round at a US$7 billion post-money valuation, led by General Catalyst. It...
FDA Approves First Inhaled Insulin for Children: Afrezza Clears Paediatric Label After a Century of Injections
On 29 May 2026, the FDA cleared Afrezza inhaled insulin for children and adolescents aged 6 and older — the first inhale...
German Quantum Health Startup NVision Raises US$55M to Combine Quantum MRI and Drug Discovery in One Pipeline
Abbott led a US$55 million Series B into NVision Quantum Technologies, a German startup using quantum physics to run can...
FDA Clears ArteraAI Breast: The First AI Digital Pathology Tool to Guide Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Decisions
On 6 May 2026, Artera's ArteraAI Breast became the first FDA-cleared digital pathology AI tool to stratify early-stage b...
The Oura Ring 5 is here, smaller and screenless, as smart rings have a moment
Oura has launched its fifth-generation smart ring: 40 per cent smaller than the last one, US$399, and shipping from 4 Ju...
DeepMind Ships AlphaFold 4 as Isomorphic Labs' First Drug Enters Phase 2 — Pharma Pipeline Implications Land Together
Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 4 on Wednesday — the first version with reliable protein–protein interaction predicti...
HealthTechX Asia 2026 Convenes 60+ Speakers and 90+ Partners in Singapore — MOH National Digital Health Update Headlined
HealthTechX Asia's second edition ran 6–7 May 2026 at Sands Expo, bringing together more than 60 speakers and 90 partner...
AI Is Coming For Cancer and Obesity: Novo Nordisk's OpenAI Partnership Signals Medicine's Next Frontier
Novo Nordisk has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to embed AI across drug discovery, clinical trials, manuf...
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