San Francisco startup Decisive Health grabbed top honors from the Livestrong Foundation‘s inaugural Big C competition, taking it with $25,000 for its Treatment Explorer development tool for cancer patients. According to Decisive Health, the tool optimizes cancer patients’ lifestyles with the best corresponding treatment, with customizable features for each patient that can be shared with […]
A Livestrong Foundation challenge launched earlier this year to confront some of the challenges that prevent cancer patients from getting the treatment they need has whittled down the competing companies from 750 to five. They each take a different approach to helping patients and get as sophisticated as using 3D printing technology to create breast […]
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.