Pharma

AdhereTech launches new bottle, sees 20 percent adherence boost
By Jonah Comstock | 11:42 am | October 28, 2015
AdhereTech, the New York City-based smart pill bottle company, has begun shipping the generation 2 version of its bottle to pharma and provider customers.
Walgreen's Rite Aid purchase could bring new digital health partners
By Jonah Comstock | 10:34 am | October 28, 2015
Higi is one digital health company that has a relationship with Rite Aid.
RxWiki raises $5.7M to help pharmacists communicate with consumers
By Aditi Pai | 10:40 am | October 26, 2015
Austin, Texas-based RxWiki, which offers a medication encyclopedia written and edited by pharmacists as well as tools to help community pharmacists to communicate with consumers, has raised $5.
PatientSafe buys Merck's Vree Health to expand into home health
By Jonah Comstock | 11:08 am | October 21, 2015
San Diego, California-based PatientSafe Solutions has acquired all the assets of Merck subsidiary Vree Health for an undisclosed amount.
Science 37 raises $6.5 million for mobile remote clinical trial platform
By Jonah Comstock | 10:59 am | October 21, 2015
Los Angeles-based mobile clinical trials company Science 37 has raised $6.
Consumer genetics company 23andMe raises another $36M to close its $115M round
By Aditi Pai | 10:32 am | October 15, 2015
Mail-order personal genetics service and research company 23andMe has completed a $115 million in a round led by Fidelity Management and Research Company with participation from  Casdin Capital, WuXi Healthcare Ventures, and Xfund, as well as existing investors Illumina, New Enterprise Associates, MPM Capital, and Google Ventures.
Pharma execs talk innovation challenges, evolution of trials
By Jonah Comstock | 01:49 pm | October 08, 2015
Propeller Health is working with Boehringer Ingelheim.
GSK, Merck use social media to learn how patients use drugs outside the lab
By Jonah Comstock | 01:48 pm | October 05, 2015
MedWatcher, from Epidemico.
Smart inhaler boosts medication adherence 144 percent in small study
By Jonah Comstock | 11:30 am | September 30, 2015
Adherium, the Australian connected inhaler company that partnered with AstraZeneca earlier this summer, has released data from three small studies of the company's Smartinhaler system.
Roche, Voluntis to co-develop mobile-enabled therapy for breast cancer
By Jonah Comstock | 11:28 am | September 30, 2015
Voluntis's Diabeo app, not available in the United States French medical app company Voluntis is partnering with Roche Pharma France, a subsidiary of Roche, to develop a mobile-based therapy for breast cancer.