Biotech & Medtech news — Thursday 15 October 2026

MedCity News 22:53 UTC

Rosarium Health partnered with Anthem Medi-Cal to provide home safety modifications for eligible members. The post Rosarium Health Forms Home Modification Partnership with Anthem Medi-Cal appeared first on MedCity News .

STAT News 20:46 UTC

WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials are moving ahead with a plan to allow specialty pharmacies to produce certain peptides , a class of largely unregulated injections that have become popular among followers of Health Secretary Robert F…

STAT News 19:58 UTC

After public school teacher Gary Keblish was diagnosed with melanoma in 2019, a surgeon cut out the tumor. But he wasn’t out of the woods. In some patients, melanoma aggressively recurs after surgery, so his doctors referred him to a new…

MedCity News 19:18 UTC

Iambic Therapeutics, an AI-enabled biotech company, will apply the IPO proceeds toward clinical development of its pipeline of internally discovered and wholly owned cancer drugs. Iambic also has R&D alliances with companies such as Bayer…

STAT News 18:09 UTC

The Department of Justice has a warning for health care executives: Don’t be another Theranos. As the Trump administration continues its fight against Medicare and Medicaid fraud, it is also expanding its investigations into corporate…

STAT News 17:19 UTC

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) has some advice for fellow lawmakers: unapologetically support the biotech industry, vilify insurance companies, and focus on making America a biotech research haven, instead of relying on protectionism…

BioPharma Dive 15:55 UTC

Armed Cell Therapeutics, chaired by former Galapagos CEO Paul Stoffels, has assumed control of cell therapies the company — now known as Lakefront Biotherapeutics — divested in a strategic overhaul.

STAT News 15:50 UTC

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It’s the last day of the STAT…

STAT News 15:43 UTC

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. I, too, wanted to express how devastated I am over losing our colleague Helen Branswell . She was kind, scrupulous…

STAT News 15:25 UTC

When drugmakers Merck and Moderna announced promising results in August from a late-stage trial of adding an mRNA cancer vaccine to immunotherapy, it was heralded as potentially powerful new way of fighting tumors. But the data don’t show…

BioPharma Dive 15:23 UTC

A revamped regulatory framework may give investors less of a “guessing game” as they weigh chances for drug approvals, one analyst said.

MedCity News 13:41 UTC

What is needed is a fundamentally different operating model for primary care, one designed around continuous engagement rather than episodic encounters. The post Why the Future of Healthcare Depends on Reinventing Primary Care Access…

STAT News 13:31 UTC

Top of the morning to you. And a fine one it is. Lots of sunshine and clear blue skies are greeting us as we prepare for another day on the road, which means we are as busy as ever hunting and gathering items of interest, as well as an…

STAT News 13:14 UTC

Y ou’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Good morning health tech readers! Day…

STAT News 11:55 UTC

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here . Missed the first day of Summit, but want to tune into day two? Register here . Read the rest… © Michel Lunanga/Getty Images)

MedCity News 11:30 UTC

[Sponsored] Panelists in the webinar, sponsored by Inovalon, will explore how near real-time surveillance, smart risk prioritization, and closed-loop intervention are shifting stewardship programs to proactive, technology-enabled…

STAT News 10:30 UTC

This story first appeared in Adam’s Biotech Scorecard, a STAT newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. And subscribe to STAT+ to get an unabridged version, with exclusive content. Biotech investors were happy with the…

STAT News 08:30 UTC

STAT is co-publishing this investigation by CalMatters / The Markup . Shira Fischer, a physician who works in health policy in Boston, sought a speech pathologist for her child in 2022, when virtual appointments became the norm because of…

STAT News 08:30 UTC

I have spent my career studying nurses and why that workforce so often fails the people it is meant to serve. But my understanding of the system changed deeply the day my daughter died . She was 21 years old. She had intellectual and…

STAT News 08:30 UTC

About 40% of high school students reported binge eating in the past month in a large new government survey , putting a spotlight on how widespread this common form of disordered eating is among young people in the U.S. This is the first…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2606.11245v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks, raising expectations for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This position paper…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2610.19220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Continuous Thought Machine (CTM) is a recurrent network that attends to inputs and makes predictions based on the synchronization between its neurons. On tasks spanning many domains, it…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2610.19487v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mandlebrot's coastline paradox reframes measurement as a joint property of an object and its ruler. Here we ask how observational resolution shapes the apparent structure of neural…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2610.19730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to represent temporal information is often hypothesized to underlie the efficiency and learning capabilities of biological neural networks. This motivates the development of…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2610.19732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Exploiting temporal information in datasets with high temporal dependencies (such as spoken keyword recognition) by spiking models is still an open problem. Promising frameworks include…

BioPharma Dive 00:08 UTC

Part of a wave of young biotechs employing AI to accelerate research, the company claimed in regulatory filings that its approach has the potential to “disrupt legacy drug discovery paradigms.”

STAT News 00:01 UTC

The CEO of Compass Pathways said Wednesday that the company, which is preparing to complete the submission of its psychedelic therapy for regulatory review this quarter, will “go slow before we go fast,” warning that negative patient or…

Nature Biotechnology 00:00 UTC

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 15 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03332-9 HitSV models the interaction between genomic repetitiveness and signature intensity to improve structural variant detection.