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Why SDoH Programs Fall Short — and What It Takes to Make Them Work

Judi Health Launches Medicare Part D Plan for Employers

Judi Health launched Judi Rx Retire, an employer-sponsored Medicare Part D plan designed to improve pricing transparency and streamline benefits administration.

By Marissa Plescia

Events

INVEST Digital Health Celebrates Healthcare Innovation in Texas

In addition to a packed conference agenda and tours of the Pegasus Park healthcare and life science innovation hub in Dallas, INVEST Digital Health also includes an innovation showcase with novel health tech and medtech offerings as well as networking opportunities.

By Stephanie Baum

BioPharma, Pharma

GSK Wins FDA Nod for Novel Hepatitis B Drug Offering a Potential Functional Cure

GSK’s Hibsago brings a new mechanism of action to chronic hepatitis B, targeting the genetic instructions the virus uses to make copies of itself and viral proteins. This drug was licensed from antisense oligonucleotide specialist Ionis Pharmaceuticals.

By Frank Vinluan

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Artificial Intelligence, Providers

AMA Calls for Risk-Based GenAI Oversight to Protect Patients and Support Responsible Innovation

As generative AI moves toward performing increasingly consequential clinical functions, the American Medical Association (AMA) is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to address a foundational question: Who is responsible for ensuring that these tools remain safe once they enter clinical practice?

By Jenna Congdon

MedCity Influencers

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Your Product Works — So Why Does It Still Fail in the Real World?

A patient's automated risk score was reassuringly green. Pulling from a sparse medical record and infrequent acute visits, the model flagged him as low risk and routed him to the default, low-touch outpatient pathway — so why was the patient actively deteriorating?

By Mitchell Frye

MedCity Influencers

Why Pharma Companies Should Look To Social Media For Better Patient Insight

Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.

By Rohit Marwah

Artificial Intelligence, Devices & Diagnostics, Providers

FDA Official Believes GenAI-enabled Tools Will Need to Be Assessed Like a Physician

Rick Abramson, a radiologist by training and the director of FDA's Digital Health Center of Excellence said, "We ended up putting out this idea that maybe these devices are starting to behave a little bit more like me as a physician than a heart valve or a defibrillator."

By Arundhati Parmar

Health Tech, Payers

Readily Secures $11M for Compliance Intelligence Platform

The Series A round was led by Define Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and the California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund.

By Marissa Plescia

BioPharma, Pharma

GSK Immunotherapy Gets Accelerated FDA Approval for Treating Rectal Cancer

The GSK cancer immunotherapy Jemperli is now approved for treating advanced cases of rectal cancer harboring a particular genetic signature. It’s a label expansion for Jemperli, which was initially approved as a treatment for endometrial cancer.

By Frank Vinluan

MedCity Influencers

A Radical Proposal to Preserve Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation

Cell and gene therapies are amazing medical breakthroughs but if we don’t find ways to pay for them, the development pipeline will fail.

By William Shrank

Hospitals, Physicians

Report: Health System M&A Activity Remains Steady in Third Quarter

A new report on third quarter M&A activity in the healthcare sector found that this quarter’s hospital and health system transactions remained steady, with 2026 potentially set to be a top year for total annual transactions since pre-pandemic times.

By Jenna Congdon

Devices & Diagnostics, Policy

AdvaMed’s 4 Policy Priorities, According to Its CEO

AdvaMed CEO Scott Whitaker outlined four policy priorities at the MedTech Conference: tariffs, FDA user fees, payment and coverage, and cybersecurity.

By Marissa Plescia

BioPharma, Pharma

Merck KGaA’s $1.1B Silence Therapeutics Buyout Brings RNA Drug for Rare Blood Cancer

The Silence Therapeutics acquisition gives Merck KGaA a drug ready for a pivotal test in the blood disorder polycythemia vera. Silence’s RNA therapy offers a different approach and a potential dosing advantage over a Takeda Pharmaceutical product recently approved in this indication.

By Frank Vinluan

Devices & Diagnostics

With $5M, Phantom GI Plans to Develop Minimally Invasive Alternative Ostomy Surgery Device

Phantom GI, a Tel Aviv-based medical startup, is developing the PercStoma device, a minimally invasive alternative to traditional ostomy surgery. The device would target patients with bowel obstructions who might otherwise be considered ineligible for surgery.

By Jenna Congdon

MedCity Influencers

Diagnosis Is Beside the Point

Some of the thorniest problems in medicine that AI can improve have nothing to do with diagnosis. They have to do with triage.

By Michael Choma

BioPharma, Startups

Startup OMass Secures $310M to Advance Drug for Rare Endocrine Disorder

OMass’s molecule is vying to become an alternative to a Neurocrine Biosciences drug that is currently the only FDA-approved therapy for congenital adrenal hyperplasia. But Vertex Pharmaceuticals could also compete with a drug candidate from a recent acquisition.

By Frank Vinluan

Health Tech

Allswell Raises $7M to Grow LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Platform

Allswell's seed round was led by Rethink Impact, and included participation from Magnify Ventures, Ulu Ventures and Hopelab Ventures, joining existing investors Techstars and Amboy Street Ventures.

By Marissa Plescia

MedCity Influencers

The Antibiotics Exist —The System Cannot Deliver Them

This is not a discovery problem. It is a market entry and access problem, and it is far more tractable than the pipeline crisis we spend most of our attention on.

By Mallika Auplish and Diane Shader Smith

MedCity Influencers

Exercise is Prescribed Like Advice When It Should Be Delivered Like Treatment

Health care routinely recommends movement without providing assessment, dosage, progression, and follow-up that turn good advice into usable care.

By Pradeepika Samagh