Carrot brings in $25M to commercialize smoking cessation solution
JJDC led the round, while New York Life Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, R7 Partners and Carrot founder David Utley also participated.
RedBrick Health teams up with Carrot to address smoking cessation
Minneapolis-based RedBrick will offer some of its customers access to Redwood City, California-based Carrot's smoking cessation platform called Pivot. Additionally, RedBrick will have category market exclusivity to market Pivot through 2018.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
To quit smoking, turns out penalties work better than reward incentives
New research indicates that smokers are more likely to quit if they get penalized for smoking rather than receiving rewards.
Smokers Die Ten Years Sooner Than Nonsmokers
We all know that smoking is bad for our health. But how bad is bad? The answer is very bad. It takes a decade off of life. Death rates are about 3 times higher for smokers than nonsmokers. The chance that a young person will live to age 80 is about 70% for nonsmokers but […]