MedTech

Amazon and Atlanta-based Sharecare are teaming up to talk about your most pressing health issues.  Sharecare announced today that the company would integrate their library of over 80,000 healthcare-related questions…

When training new doctors, teaching hospitals and medical schools generally use expensive cadaver labs for practice. Some are beginning to use computer simulations to replicate clinical scenarios, but research has…

Americans spent more than $15 billion in cosmetic plastic surgery in 2018. And with the rise of social media, potential patients have more access to before/after photos, reviews, and in-depth…

On average, it takes about eight years from the time a potential cancer drug enters clinical trials until it’s approved, according to the American Cancer Society. But not every drug…

Temiloluwa Adeniyi believes that engineers that bring diverse perspectives to the table can solve real world problems. She uses her own background, as a Nigerian-American from an immigrant family, as an…

After being exposed to the healthcare world from his surgeon father, Justin Grant has found a knack for finding inefficiency gaps in the healthcare space. The entrepreneur’s first startup, Scrubpay, aimed to…

The national opioid prescribing rate started increasing in 2006, with the total number of prescriptions dispensed peaking in 2012 at more than 255 million. Ranging from hydrocodone to oxycodone, opioids bind…

Atlanta’s Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) will be opening a second startup accelerator for medtech companies, in conjunction with Israel’s Rambam Health Care Campus. This accelerator builds on the…