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There are five areas that employers need to improve upon to see a rise in their employee retention rates – compensation, benefits, learning & development, culture, and flexibility.

Astellas has purchased an equity stake in Taysha Gene Therapies in a $50 million deal that gives it an option to license the company’s two lead gene therapy candidates. The Japanese pharmaceutical giant also gains the option to buy its new partner outright depending on clinical and regulatory developments expected in the coming year.

Critical applications, medical devices, protected health information (PHI), patient safety, and lives are all at risk when extended downtime occurs. The question is, are you and your team prepared?

Alviss.ai CEO and Founder Dr. Pavel Overtchouk talks about how the company’s stroke prediction software seeks to be the first attempt to apply predictive medicine to cardiovascular interventions and heart surgery.

Specialty carve outs that move specialty drugs away from traditional prescription drug management to a pharmacy benefit administrator (PBA) or specialty administrator will continue and likely to provide cost savings.

Cofertility is a new startup aiming to make egg freezing more accessible by tying it to egg donation. The startup offers women two programs: Keep and Split. With Keep, women can pay to freeze their eggs and store them all for their own later use. The Split program allows women to freeze their eggs for free when they give half to a family who can’t otherwise conceive.

The second patient who died in the Phase 1 test of Alpine Immune Sciences cancer drug, davoceticept, reportedly suffered the same cardiovascular complication as the first patient. The biotech company is stopping enrollment in two clinical tests of the drug and assessing all participants in the studies.

There is no arguing that the last year has been a rocky one for biotech companies, but trends suggest that the sector is ready for an upswing. The revenue model works, innovation continues to bear fruit, and the need is ever-present. The harsh winter will result in a hearty harvest.

Technology exists today that enables patients to simply use a smartphone to do their physical therapy exercises and get recommendations from their provider based on objective and subjective data.

Rural health systems are met with certain obstacles that their suburban and urban counterparts evade, according to Dr. Joanne Conroy, Dartmouth Health’s president and CEO. Some of these include higher poverty rates and more difficulty attracting employees.