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Oak Street, Interwell Combine Primary Care & Dialysis with New Joint Venture

Oak Street Health teamed up with kidney care management company Interwell Health to create a joint venture called OakWell, which seeks to provide primary care to end-stage kidney disease patients directly in existing dialysis centers. End stage kidney disease patients spend upwards of 12 hours per week in dialysis centers — OakWell is meant to eliminate the barrier of attending separate, additional medical appointments.

By Katie Adams
Devices & Diagnostics

Kansas startup hopes to make more patients eligible for AVF, hemodialysis with blood pump

Flow Forward Medical, armed with promising data, has a device that aims to help make more patients eligible for arteriovenous fistula — connecting an artery to a vein, and eventually hemodialysis. If successful, it would also help the more than 60 percent of patients with maturation failure, meaning they can’t get AVF without further surgery. Hemodialysis is […]

By Lindsey Alexander
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A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma

A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.

By PurpleLab