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Amedisys Expands Personal Care Network with BrightStar Care

Amedisys, Inc., America’s leading independent home health, hospice and personal care company, has signed a Care Coordination Agreement with BrightStar Care to add its agencies to the Amedisys Personal Care Network, which helps facilitate the coordination of care between...

Massachusetts General Hospital researchers create bioluminescent tag to detect DNA break repair

A new bioluminescent reporter that tracks DNA double stranded break (DSB) repair in cells has been developed by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The international team’s novel bioluminescent repair reporter (BLRR)-based system...

Penn Medicine health system gets $2.5M to study RPM’s effect on COVID-19 disparities

Penn Medicine’s COVID Watch team has received a $2.5 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the program’s impact, particularly among Black and Latinx patients whose communities have endured significant disparities during the pandemic. “The overall...

LumiraDx gets FDA EUA status for point-of-care Covid-19 antigen test

LumiraDx has secured emergency use authorisation (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its point-of-care Covid-19 antigen test. LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 antigen test has been designed for the detection of antigen nucleocapsid protein from a nasal swab. The...

AXIM Biotechnologies, Empowered Diagnostics collaborate on Covid-19 rapid neutralising antibody test

AXIM Biotechnologies has entered into an exclusive limited licencing, manufacturing and distribution agreement with Empowered Diagnostics on the Covid-19 rapid neutralising antibody test. The deal has been signed for the high volume production of AXIM’s rapid diagnostic test, which helps...

Google Invests $100M Into Telehealth Provider Amwell

Google's cloud division is investing $100 million in Amwell, a telehealth operator preparing to go public, according to CNBC. The investment will come with Amwell transitioning some parts of its business away from Amazon Web Services and onto Google Cloud....

Israel, UAE agree for healthcare cooperation

The health ministers of Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreed for immediate cooperation between the two countries regarding health, the ministers said in a joint announcement. The ministers, Yuli Edelstein of Israel and Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Owais...

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