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The Aligos Therapeutics pipeline reprioritization comes after clinical trial setbacks to two hepatitis B drug candidates led the biotech to end both programs. Still intact is a Merck research collaboration focused on developing NASH therapies.

Change is the only constant. Once a month, MedCity News’ Editor-in-Chief, Arundhati Parmar, invites a guest whose vision is to help the industry pivot to become more patient-centric, outcomes-based and affordable. All Episodes » Once a month, MedCity News Reporter Katie Adams provides a round up of who’s climbing up the corporate ladder, who’s laying off workers and maybe even who got fired in our ever-changing healthcare industry. Each episode features a short interview with...

UnitedHealthcare Rewards members can earn up to $1,000 per year by meeting daily activity goals, tracking sleep and fulfilling other one-time health activities. The program is intended to incentivize healthy habits, the insurer said.

Employers are most interested in switching up their vendor partners for wellbeing programs, the Willis Towers Watson survey found. About 55% of respondents said they will make changes to their wellbeing vendor partners in 2023 or 2024, while 12% already did in 2022.

Virta is available this month to all Blue Shield of California members enrolled in preferred provider organization plans for individual and family, fully insured, self funded and Medicare Advantage. The payer has been working with Virta since 2019 when the digital health company joined Blue Shield of California’s Wellvolution, a platform of digital lifestyle apps.

Francesca de Quesada Covey, chief investment officer at investment firm TheVentureCity, believes the women’s health sector will come into its own in the next few years. She said startups focused on improving care delivery will probably have the easiest time raising funds of all the companies in the femtech space.

Millennium Physician Group — an independent care group with more than 800 providers across Florida, Texas, and North Carolina — announced successful results following its adoption of Navina’s AI platform. The organization said that the platform saved time, reduced burnout and gave physicians more confidence about forming care plans with patients.

For anyone suffering from a debilitating or life-threatening disease, the experience of procuring specialty medications is like having a second job. You are your own advocate working in a draconian system that was developed as a business, not a care service. When you’re finally successful, after what can be weeks of delays, you’re met with high costs. This is a pattern patients get used to as a result of their illness being chronic. The prescribing of specialty medications by a physician in...

HLTH Foundation Executive Director Janna Guinen described its focus on promoting equity, inclusion and opportunity in healthcare on behalf of patients, healthcare professionals and health tech entrepreneurs.

Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors, The Chartis Group and Medasource were the five companies with the best performances in this year’s Best in KLAS Awards. KLAS Research named Epic as the top overall software suite for the thirteenth year in a row.