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NextMed.Health is a cross-disciplinary program & community from across #healthtech & biomedicine reimagining the future of health & biomedicine.
- A team of more than 80 researchers working across four continents have identified a set of proteins in the blood that accurately predict lung cancers more than 5 years before diagnosis. also early evidence that an existing anti-inflammatory drug could significantly reduce lung
- In a small, preliminary study, an experimental gene-editing treatment targeting PCSK9 dramatically lowered cholesterol levels, perhaps permanently, after just one infusion…
- A pancreatic cancer drug more than four decades in the making has cracked one of the most stubbornly lethal cancers, extending people’s lives and keeping their tumors in check for twice as long as those on regular chemotherapy. @ASCO
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Gamification of health The Vitality program from life insurance company @JohnHancockUSA rewards policyholders with points for healthy behaviors such as going to the gym, buying healthy foods, tracking sleep, getting preventive screenings - A blood-based biological aging score was linked to significantly higher dementia risk in a study of more than 223,000 adults, with the strongest association seen for vascular dementia.
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A big day for multi-agent AI to accelerate biomedical discovery, hypothesis generation, designing experiments with proof points of new candidate drugs (cancer, fibrosis, macular degeneration, antimicrobial resistance, and more) 2 @Nature reports @GoogleDeepMind @FutureHouseSF - Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research
- NextMed Health repostedThe future of mental health isn't a single drug or app, it lies at the convergence of biomarkers, AI, and a real clinical team. I'm excited to see @meruhealth Advanced, which is bringing that convergence to a category that has needed it for a long time.I lost my brother Peter to suicide. Standard psychiatry failed him. Today we launch Meru Health Advanced — the care model I wish he'd had. For the next Peter.
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Check out our updated resource page on digital health accelerators, incubators and funding programs - NextMed Health reposted
🧵1/ Our new study on AI and physician reasoning just came out in @ScienceMagazine. As co-senior author, I'm excited about our findings, and I do think AI will reshape medicine. But after seeing some of the discussions, I'm also worried about how our findings may be
