In 1995, cancer drugs cost $54,100 for each year of life they were estimated to add. By 2013, these drugs shot up to $207,000, according to a new MIT study. It’s no mystery that drug costs are on the rise – but when you quantify these numbers, they’re numbingly high: Since 1995, a group of 58 […]
Royal Philips and MIT announced an initiative that will allow healthcare researchers to access data on more than 100,000 patients, which has been collected by Phillips through its Hospital to Home eICU telehealth program. For researches, data sets are often limited to insurance claims data, which offers a summary of patient’s stay at a hospitals. […]
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.
Massachusetts biotech Blend Therapeutics just raked in $21 million to advance its a new, and rather interesting, class of cancer therapeutics. It’s using the dollars to grow its Pentarin platform, which creates novel, miniature biologic drug conjugates that are encapsulated in nanoparticles. The funding will also help advance a separate drug candidate, BTP-114, closer to the […]
A team of Korean and American researchers has developed a smart prosthetic skin that can sense pressure, heat and moisture – which could help those with artificial limbs detect if, say, a pot handle’s too hot or about to slip out of their hands. The work was just published in Nature Communications. Here’s a portion of the abstract: Here […]
One pill under development by MIT scientists has produced a pill that would look at home in the prop department for The Knick -- a pill spiked with needles designed to deploy medicine more effectively into the walls of the GI Tract.