Biotech & Medtech
Biotech & Medtech news — Friday 02 October 2026
29 stories from 4 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Debunked Episode 30: ACCESS Tries to Succeed Where VBC Fails, AI, and UnitedHealth Gets the Last Week Tonight Treatment
MedCity News
Debunked Podcast co-hosts Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra discussed the merits of the CMS ACCESS Model (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) and how it can offer a path to advance value-based care goals. The post…
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Parakeet Health Secures $10M for Conversational Agentic Platform
MedCity News
The Series A round was led by Canvas Ventures, with participation from Blank Space Ventures, StoryHouse Ventures and HMC INQ. The post Parakeet Health Secures $10M for Conversational Agentic Platform appeared first on MedCity News .
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NIH rolling out streamlined website to help public find information more easily
STAT News
Finding information from the National Institutes of Health about human health, disease, and biomedical research is about to look a lot different. On Monday, the NIH will unveil a new version of its website that shifts attention away from…
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Pfizer Pill’s Phase 3 Data in Vitiligo Pave Way for FDA, EMA Submissions
MedCity News
Pfizer’s Litfulo significantly improved skin pigment measures in two pivotal studies in vitiligo, results that were presented during the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology annual meeting. If Pfizer’s daily pill is approved, it…
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What it’s like to wait for the call from the Nobel Prize committee
STAT News
Some 20 years ago, Mary-Claire King was asked to hold a seminar at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The invite, the geneticist soon learned, was code for: You are being considered for a Nobel Prize. She traveled to Sweden, held the…
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Access to addiction meds for young people has improved — but retention hasn’t
STAT News
In 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement urging doctors to offer medications for opioid use disorder to adolescent and young adult patients who needed them. New national data show that more young people with an…
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This week in charts: Kodiak’s big comeback and Hengrui’s dealmaking
BioPharma Dive
The latest installment in BioPharma Dive’s data visualization series features a closer look at Kodiak’s stock performance and Hengrui's ties with U.S. and European drugmakers.
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An Ebola treatment center was burned down as the death toll in Congo passes 4,000
STAT News
BUNIA, Congo — Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history . The latest figures released by the Health Ministry on…
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Novartis wagers almost $8B on a Chinese biotech’s RNA drugs
BioPharma Dive
In exchange for a $575 million payment up front, Abogen Biosciences will furnish Novartis with access to its RNA technology, including an option to license its lead program ABO-2203.
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STAT+: Lilly bypasses Australian pharmacies with DTC model
STAT News
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Mosquitos are eating us alive into October; I just annihilated an Aedes albopictus that was supping on my shoulder…
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STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
STAT News
Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we’ll share it with others. That’s right. Send us your changes, and we’ll find a home for them . Don’t be shy…
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It’s Time We Reframe Healthcare Organizational Culture Using Behavioral Science
MedCity News
Data, behavioral insights, and experimentation can be used to understand how stress, motivation, and trust shape company culture. Positively changing company culture leads to direct improvements in patient health outcomes, clinician…
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about the 340B drug pilot program, an obesity drug disappointment, and more
STAT News
And so, another working week will soon come to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. Our agenda is still taking shape, but we plan to tidy up around the castle…
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How big is Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak?
STAT News
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here . Hi, it’s Sarah subbing in. I have some embarrassing memories of struggling to do even a single pull-up for the Presidential…
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Hospitals’ Cost Containment Conundrum
MedCity News
[Sponsored] In this webinar pharmacy leaders share how hospitals are using stewardship as a sustainability strategy to control costs and ease the load on pharmacists. The post Hospitals’ Cost Containment Conundrum appeared first on MedCity…
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Opinion: I treated heat stroke at the NYC Marathon. Marathons need to prepare for a climate-changed world
STAT News
Though I have treated thousands of patients since, Nov. 6, 2022 — the day of a record hot New York City Marathon — still weighs on me. Around the three-and-a-half-hour mark of the race, the finish-line medical tent filled. Inside, I was…
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STAT+: NIH awarded all its grant funding, but delayed and opaque decisions stymied researchers
STAT News
A STAT analysis of National Institutes of Health spending shows that in the 2026 fiscal year, which ended Wednesday, the agency continued reducing grant awards involving health disparities, race, and ethnicity but made little progress…
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Opinion: The law has to catch up on orphan-designated drugs with multiple uses
STAT News
As sure as the sun rises, Crohn’s disease is most definitely not juvenile idiopathic arthritis. But government policy doesn’t seem to understand that. I’m a pharmacist, and I started a specialty pharmacy in the small town of Sidney, Neb…
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Multi-Behavioral Evolved Substrates Through Neuromodulation and Activation Selection
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.00148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-ended artificial life systems must acquire diverse competencies from a single evolving genotype. Biological brains combine neuromodulation, which reconfigures circuits without changing…
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TRACE: Tackling Real-World Resource Assignment Problems via Agentic Heuristic Design
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.01887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic resource assignment, the real-time allocation of task streams to heterogeneous processing nodes, is the backbone of modern computing infrastructure. While learning-based schedulers…
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Continual Reinforcement Learning with Neuroevolution
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.01583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite many studies about causes and remedies of plasticity loss in Reinforcement Learning (RL) under continual task changes, no RL method has yet consistently achieved a good balance…
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Spiking neural networks for streaming qubit readout
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.02129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fast and accurate qubit-state assignment is essential for feedback, calibration, and error correction in quantum processors. In superconducting platforms, frequency-multiplexed readout…
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Inherited Learning in an Artificial Ecology: How Controls and Update Allocation Shape Benefits
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.01232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning can improve an individual's behavior, yet a population risks losing that experience whenever individuals die and are replaced. Inheriting learned preferences offers a way to preserve…
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How Far is Adam from Natural Gradient Descent?
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.00004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adam is the standard optimizer in deep learning, yet its geometric relationship to natural gradient descent (NGD) contains unresolved questions. We study Adam's full update rule, including…
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Controllable Stochastic Quantization Encoding for Adversarially Robust Spiking Neural Networks
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.01558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted increasing attention due to their impressive temporal dynamics, energy efficiency, and brain-inspired mechanisms. Although SNNs have demonstrated…
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Neuromorphic Pseudo-Random Number Generators with a Low Power Hardware Implementation
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.00719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pseudo-random number generation often requires trade-offs among quality, power consumption, and bandwidth to produce unpredictable sequences of numbers. The brain, on the other hand…
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Per-Node Activation Function Evolution in Indirectly Encoded Substrates: Solvability, Limits, and Emergent Diversity
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.00149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological neurons achieve computational diversity through specialized types: tonic, bursting, adapting, and fast-spiking cells coexist within the same circuit. Artificial neural networks, by…
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LESS: Lightweight Evolutionary Supernet Search in Minutes
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.01468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-cost NAS must both explore high-performing architectures and identify them reliably, yet reducing evaluation cost often weakens the fidelity of candidate comparisons. Training-free…
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Increasing Width Allows Greedy Layer-wise Training to Rival End-to-End Backpropagation in Self-Supervised Learning
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.00753v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end backpropagation has been the dominant mode of training in deep learning, allowing for the coordination of parameter updates across layers of a neural network. Prior studies have…