UGANDA – Uganda has officially declared the end of its most recent Ebola outbreak, nearly three months after the initial case was confirmed in the capital city, Kampala. The outbreak, caused by the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, resulted in 14 reported cases and four deaths. The outbreak began on January 30, 2025, […]
USA – Two senior officials from the Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) have resigned in a shake-up at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), raising questions about the future of drug advertising regulation. Catherine Gray, the OPDP’s director, and Mark Askine, her deputy, stepped down effective immediately, according to a report from […]
USA – At the Google Cloud Next 2025 event, Google introduced a powerful new chip called Ironwood, the seventh version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). This new chip is built mainly for AI inference, which is when trained AI models are used to make decisions or predictions using new data. Unlike earlier TPUs that […]
USA – AbbVie Inc. has announced plans to invest more than US $10 billion in U.S. manufacturing over the next decade. This move aligns with a broader pharmaceutical industry trend of domestic expansion and may serve to mitigate potential impacts from anticipated tariffs on pharmaceutical imports. During the company’s first-quarter earnings call, CEO Rob […]
FRANCE – France’s national public health agency, the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), has temporarily suspended the administration of Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine, IXCHIQ, for individuals aged 65 and older. This decision follows reports of serious adverse events, including one death, among elderly recipients with underlying health conditions during a vaccination campaign in La Réunion, a […]
USA – The University of Pittsburgh, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has inaugurated the Health Sciences and Sports Analytics Cloud Innovation Center. This pioneering facility aims to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into sports science and athlete performance, offering real-time performance analysis and predictive health monitoring to aid in injury prevention and strategic gameplay […]
USA – A recent study conducted by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has revealed concerning disparities in medical treatment recommendations made by artificial intelligence (AI) models. Despite identical clinical symptoms, AI systems provided varying treatment plans based solely on patients’ socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, including income, race, and gender. This […]
USA – ALIGNMT.AI has launched a comprehensive AI compliance and risk management platform to address the increasing integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare. This solution assists healthcare organizations in streamlining compliance processes, mitigating AI-related risks, and ensuring safe and transparent AI operations. As AI adoption in healthcare is projected to surpass US $614 billion by […]
USA –Private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) firms are grappling with the challenge of deploying approximately US $1.7 trillion in unallocated capital, commonly referred to as “dry powder.” This substantial sum, amassed during the fundraising booms of 2019 and 2020, is approaching the end of its typical five-year investment window, intensifying pressure on fund […]
USA — AdventHealth, a prominent faith-based, nonprofit health system, has completed its $260 million acquisition of ShorePoint Health from Community Health Systems (CHS), expanding its footprint in Southwest Florida. The transaction, effective March 1, 2025, includes the 254-bed ShorePoint Health Port Charlotte hospital, now renamed AdventHealth Port Charlotte, along with associated physician clinics, outpatient […]
USA – The U.S. healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market continued to demonstrate strong momentum in the first quarter of 2025, according to R.L. Hulett’s latest Healthcare M&A Update. A total of 816 healthcare transactions were announced during the period, reflecting a 9.3% increase compared to the same quarter in 2024. This robust activity came […]
USA – Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic Health System have officially completed their merger, forming a unified nonprofit integrated health system operating under the Sanford Health name. This strategic alliance aims to expand healthcare services and improve access for communities across the rural Midwest. The merger brings together Sanford Health, headquartered in Sioux Falls, […]
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