A study from Singapore has evaluated the effectiveness of mental health chatbots in helping alleviate symptoms of depression.
Previous studies have pointed out chatbots' potential in helping people with depression in treating their symptoms.
This new study by clinician doctors from the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University Singapore set out to evaluate the...
Pharma company Boehringer Ingelheim and Click Therapeutics announced an expanded partnership to develop and commercialize another prescription digital therapeutic for patients with schizophrenia.
The deal will net Click up to $460 million, plus tiered royalties. It builds on an earlier collaboration announced in 2020 that developed CT-155, an initial therapeutic for schizophrenia.
The companies...
Headspace Health confirmed it has laid off 50 workers, or about 4% of its workforce.
First reported by Bloomberg, the cuts at the meditation and mental health company are the latest in a spate of layoffs at digital health and health tech companies this year.
Calm, another meditation app that has been expanding with clinical mental health offerings, laid off 20% of its staff in August.
Click...
A University of Queensland research into dementia treatment using ultrasound has started its year-long human safety trial.
The trial aims to determine whether ultrasound could be safely delivered as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. It is being conducted at Mater Hospital Brisbane and UQ and involves 12 participants.
HOW IT WORKS
The ultrasound treatment is delivered fortnightly to each...
On Tuesday, VR behavioral health platform BehaVR and OxfordVR, a VR platform for severe mental health issues, announced their merger. The companies say their combination creates the largest virtual reality healthcare delivery platform.
The companies, which will unite under the BehaVR brand, also garnered $13 million in Series B funding to support the merger. The round was led by Oxford Science...
Singaporean tech startup Neeuro and the Institute of Mental Health have unveiled their home-based attention training programme.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The digital therapeutic programme called Cogo seeks to solve inattentiveness in children aged 6-12 years through a 24-session guided game that is paired with the SenzeBand 2 EEG headband by Neeuro. It was developed based on Neeuro's Brain-Computer...
Tech-enabled contract research organization Vial announced last week it raised $67 million in Series B funding.
The round, which the startup said brings its total raise to more than $100 million, was led by General Catalyst with participation from Byers Capital, BoxGroup and other investors.
Vial offers three technology platforms for running clinical trials: one for onboarding patients and...
Amwell is in talks to acquire struggling teletherapy company Talkspace for about $200 million, according to Israeli business publication Calcalist.
Talkspace's stock price surged in the wake of the deal rumors. It went public in 2021 after a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, opening at $8.90 per share. The deal valued Talkspace at $1.4 billion.
But the digital mental health...
Cerebral is suing its ousted cofounder Kyle Robertson, alleging he never repaid a loan received from the digital mental health company.
According to a lawsuit filed last week in New York, Cerebral said Robertson defaulted on a nearly $50 million loan that he took out in January to buy 1.06 million shares of common stock in the company. Cerebral alleges Robertson is personally liable for more...
It's no secret the U.S. healthcare system is frequently hard to navigate, even for industry experts.
Finding doctors, figuring out insurance and accessing care can be a particular challenge for young people who are doing it for the first time, said Lori Evans Bernstein, CEO and cofounder of Caraway. Young women and others assigned female at birth also face a complex landscape of abortion...
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