Source: FierceBiotech 98point6, a digital health company that makes primary care doctors available to patients over cellphone messages, raised $50 million in a new financing round led by Goldman Sachs. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to automate the tasks that don’t require direct physician interaction, such as gathering information on…...
Sanofi, Regeneron score positive Dupixent data in sinusitis as they await key FDA asthma verdict
Source: FiercePharma As the FDA gets set to decide whether Sanofi and Regeneron’s atopic dermatitis drug, Dupixent, can make a bid for asthma sales, the companies are churning out data in a variety of other conditions in hopes of boosting the product even more. The latest? Positive numbers from two phase 3 trials…...
UnitedHealth buys Genoa Healthcare, adding more than 400 pharmacies to its PBM
Source: FierceHealthcare With new competitors closing in, UnitedHealth is bolstering its defenses by purchasing Genoa Healthcare, the fifth-largest pharmacy chain in the country with 435 locations. Genoa—which also offers telepsychiatry services and medication management for behavioral health patients—will be absorbed by UnitedHealth’s pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx. According to its website,…...