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LONDON & BANGALORE, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wellcome has awarded £5.3 million to Wysa to fund a scale-up study that will adapt a clinically validated digital mental health intervention for adolescent girls living in rural India, a population facing some of the most significant mental health inequalities globally. The funding will support research led by Wysa, whose digital mental health interventions have been studied in peer-reviewed research and deployed across public health systems and healt...

YARDLEY, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Nucleus, a leading provider of strategic services across research and development, medical affairs, market access, commercial, and learning & development, today announced that it has acquired Bridge Medical Consulting, a specialized health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) consultancy. The acquisition represents a key step in Red Nucleus’s strategy, strengthening its ability to help biopharmaceutical companies demonstrate the clinical and economic val...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Oregon Health Leadership Council (OHLC), 211info, and Unite Us today announced the launch of the Connect Oregon Public Resource Directory (PRD), now live on the OHLC website. An expansion of the state’s Connect Oregon network, this public-facing directory enables individuals, community health workers (CHWs), and care providers to quickly identify and share local community-based services. Since its launch in 2020, Connect Oregon, powered by Unite Us in partne...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, today issued its 2026 Breast Cancer Progress Outlook. New data shows the U.S. breast cancer death rate has declined 44% between its peak in 1989 and 2023 — averting an estimated 546,000 deaths due largely to advances in treatment and earlier detection through screening. Yet breast cancer remains an urgent public health challenge. Incidence of invasive breast cancer has been rising since the mid-2000s, incr...

NOCATEE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Serenity Mental Health Centers, a leader in psychiatric care and one of the fastest growing mental health providers in the nation, today announced the expansion of its ketamine infusion therapy in Nocatee. Serenity’s board-certified psychiatrists and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners provide full-spectrum mental health services tailored to each patient’s needs. Ketamine infusion therapy is only provided when the provider determines that it is necessar...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Serenity Mental Health Centers, a leader in psychiatric care and one of the fastest growing mental health providers in the nation, today announced the expansion of its Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) treatment in Las Vegas. Serenity’s board-certified psychiatrists and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners provide full-spectrum mental health services tailored to each patient’s needs. Treatments include psychiatric evaluations, medication management, TM...

SAN DIEGO & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SEQSTER, the leading healthcare technology company and the data connection, collection, and orchestration layer for patient health data, and Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc., today announced the expansion of a successful partnership to accelerate clinical trials, data collection, and real-world evidence (RWE) generation across Praxis's clinical development programs. Building on early success in Praxis’s innovative Essential3 Program for Essential Tremor, SEQ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Humanetics Corporation, an advanced clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company pioneering novel prophylactic Medical Countermeasures for warfighters, first responders, and others at risk of radiation exposure from nuclear incidents, industrial accidents, or cancer radiation therapy, today announced that RADM Colin G. Chinn, MC, USN (Ret), MD, the Company’s Chief Medical Officer, will be presenting at the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Baltimore Forum on February 05,...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Heard, the leading financial back office platform built specifically for therapists and health & wellness practitioners, today announced the appointment of Art Litvinau as Chief Product & Technology Officer. Art brings extensive experience scaling product and engineering organizations and will lead Heard's expansion from accounting services into a comprehensive financial operating system for independent practices. In this new role, Art will oversee product stra...

WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ametros, the industry leader in professional administration and post-settlement medical care coordination, has won a Gold Stevie® Award in the “Contact Center of the Year – Other Service Industries” category as part of the 20th Annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world’s top honors for customer service, contact center, business development, and sales professionals. The Stevie Awards...