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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Update ⋅ Paul Sonnier ⋅ June 13, 2018 ⋅ #330
Announcement to 63,333 Digital Health Group Members
Dear Group,
I was fortunate to go on a tour of the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, CA last week. The scientists and staff there are doing amazing research in the areas of genomic medicine, infectious disease, microbial and environmental genomics, synthetic biology and biological energy. The building itself is also a green engineering marvel that’s LEED-Platinum certified and has almost net-zero energy footprint.
Mental health was in the spotlight in my latest newsletter (included in text-only format below, or with images here) with the recent tragic suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade highlighting the need for more effective treatments for depression. Unfortunately, this is an “area that has been largely abandoned by big pharmaceutical companies.” Also on the topic of mental and physical health, Headspace, a digital provider of guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training is looking into developing FDA-approved, prescription-level digital health solutions for various health conditions.
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The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter for Jun 11
Mental health in the spotlight…
The tragic suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade have highlighted the need for more effective treatments for depression.
As Julie Steenhuysen reports in Reuters, this is an “area that has been largely abandoned by big pharmaceutical companies.” While drugmakers are currently working on 1,100 experimental cancer drugs — which are more profitable in the market — there are only 140 drugs in development that target mental health issues, with just 39 aimed at treating depression, according to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
Headspace, a digital provider of guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training, has launched Headspace Health, a new subsidiary focused on developing prescription-level digital health solutions for various health conditions. The company plans to begin clinical trials this summer and hopes to obtain FDA clearance within two years. Co-founder Andy Puddicombe and CSO Megan Jones were itnerviewed on CBS This Morning in this video. In other news for the company, Puddicombe states that it has launched its own guided runs on the Headspace app.
10% Happier, a ‘no BS’ meditation app for skeptics, has raised $3.7M in new funding. The startup’s app is marketed as being for people who are turned off by the idea of meditation.
RESEARCH
I was fortunate to go on a tour of the J. Craig Venter Institute this past Friday. The researchers there are doing amazing work in viral genomics, synthetic biology, biofuels, and understanding the mechanisms of inflammation in the human body. It was casual Friday, hence I’m wearing shorts. At least that’s my excuse. 
FUNDING AND M&A
Israel-based Zebra Medical Vision has closed a $30M round of funding that it will use to continue building tools for radiologists that leverage AI, machine and deep learning. Next year, the company plans to launch a new product designed to help automate the analysis of chest X-rays. Other companies and entities working on this same type of application include Google, Stanford, and the Dubai Health Authority
GENOMICS
Two studies of CRISPR-Cas9 used to replace disease-causing DNA with healthy versions have found that this particular application of gene editing may increase the risk that the altered cells will trigger cancer by seeding tumors inside a patient. Erik Sontheimer of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, whose research focuses on off-target effects of CRISPR, states: “This is something that bears paying attention to, but I don’t think it’s a deal-breaker.
In a new service it describes as “Supporting patients left in limbo by DTC BRCA genetic testing”, Color hasannounced that it is offeringe an expansion to its Family Testing Program that will include “testing for people who‘ve taken a DTC BRCA test and tested positive for a mutation that significantly increases their risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Anyone who receives a positive result from a DTC BRCA test is eligible for the Family Testing Program rate of $50 for a test that’s ordinarily $249.”
INNOVATION
Apple’s patent for a wearable blood pressure monitoring cuff is now public, and indicates that the device would be equipped with one or more sensors to track blood pressure and might also sport a touchscreen with Bluetooth compatiblity. Other than that, the monitor sounds like many other blood pressure measurement systems already on the market.
A new $1,250 case can turn your smartphone into an X-ray machine that works from 40 feet away. Made by Los Angeles-based Royal Holdings, the device can scan people for hidden weapons (e.g. guns, knives, or explosive devices) by focusing audio waves from the phone at a person and then, similar to a sonar system, detecting the returning soundwaves and using AI and machine learning to identify the objects representing a threat.
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