FDA wants to shorten new drug monopolies, AI to find kidney disease, innovation in Egypt and other interesting reads from the past week.

Noteworthy 📰

• Five key takeaways from the world's largest cancer research conference. Link

• J&J faces high-stakes trial over 22 women's talc claims. Link

• A blood-based cancer test gets its first results. Link

• Diabetes giant Novo Nordisk may be considering thousands of job cuts. Link

• FDA wants to shorten new drug monopolies to cut costs. Link

Digital Health 💻

• We told Siri, Google and Alexa we were having suicidal thoughts -- and here's what they said. Link

• See how this hospital uses AI to find kidney disease. Link

• Headspace aims to be first FDA-approved prescription meditation app. Link

Research 🔬

• This fungus could help cure cancer. Link

• Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cancer is eradicated. Link

• New technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing. Link

Perspective and Opinions 📢

• Will probiotics ever live up to the hype? Link

• Why Egypt is at the forefront of Hepatitis C treatment? Link

Interesting 🤔

Deep Drive 👓

How AI driven by Google’s DeepMind could help save lives

Artificial Intelligence could prevent tens of thousands of deaths a year and take pressure off national health systems, but privacy campaigners are worried.

Notable Startups 💰

Nimbus Therapeutics, a biotech company pioneering the application of computational technologies to the design and development of novel treatments for substantial and underserved human diseases, secured $65m in funding

Just Biotherapeutics, a Shanghai, China-based developer of global antibody and recombinant protein biotherapeutics, raised 35m in Series B+ financing round.

nference, provider of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered life sciences software platform, completed an $11m Series A financing.

Genetesis, a medical device company focused on using biomagnetic imaging to enable rapid, noninvasive and accurate chest pain triage, closed $7.5M Series A financing.

Enyo Pharma, a France-based clinical stage biotech company developing innovative drug candidates by mimicking virus strategies to modulate host cellular functions, completed a €40m in Series B financing.

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