Health and Wellness

The company will use the funds to expand its platform that connects caregivers, care teams and residents in senior living and long-term care facilities.

The New York-based company will use the funds to expand its in-person and online therapy platform.

Dr. Chris Curry, clinical director of women's health at Oura, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss how its ring differentiates itself from other wearables.

It has demonstrated high accuracy in detecting pancreatic cancer by extracting and analysing 260,000 metabolic signals from just 500 microlitres of blood serum.

The platform uses wearable biometric data and clinician-reviewed medical research to provide guidance on menstrual-, pregnancy- and menopause-related health.

The program connects self-pay patients with clinicians to access GLP-1s, including Wegovy, starting at $149 per month, with no subscription fee.

Funded by the Queensland government, a University of Queensland project is developing a VR program for practising safe falls for the first time among patients with spinal cord injury.

Also, Wellumio has received $4 million in pre-Series A funding to further develop its portable, AI-augmented brain scanner.

A neurologist's startup has developed a foundation model, based on 60,000 hours of brain wave records, which reportedly achieved 95% accuracy in identifying epilepsy biomarkers.

Physicians tell Dr. Amy Bucher they feel a sense of empowerment in being able to offer patients something that, along with lifestyle changes, reduces weight, lowers the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure, and helps prevent other chronic conditions.