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Opinion: Banning teens from social media won’t help their mental health. Here’s what might

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surgeon general’s 2023 advisory on social media and teen mental health, public concern has skyrocketed around adolescents’ digital lives. Major news organizations and even state governments have pinned social media apps as addictive , dangerous, and the cause of the youth mental health crisis. Since the U.S.

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Opinion: Americans are obsessed with health and fitness tracking. It’s time for a data diet

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Turn on your TV or open a web browser this January, and you’ll be bombarded with ads for fitness trackers, smart scales, health apps, and other digital innovations promising to streamline your journey to a happier and healthier you.

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STAT+: Once bullish on digital health, Orexo hits a wall on reimbursement

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After several quarters of promising to deliver concrete progress on key digital therapeutics projects, Swedish pharmaceutical company Orexo on Thursday reported the somber news that its efforts remained stalled. Orexo, which made almost all of its $60 million in 2022 revenues from U.S. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Health tech investor Glen Tullman launches 62 Ventures, a new $100 million fund

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First the news: Glen Tullman, currently the CEO Transcarent , has a  new, roughly $100 million venture fund,  called  62 Ventures.     The plan, he told me, is to use the new fund to invest in startups that fall outside the strict digital health focus of his well-known fund 7wireVentures.

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STAT+: Former Pear Therapeutics executives start new VC firm, with biotech veteran Bob Langer as adviser

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Executives from the shuttered digital health company Pear Therapeutics are launching a new VC firm, offering early access to new startups formed by serial biotech entrepreneur Bob Langer. Former Pear CEO Corey McCann and former licensing head Michael Langer formed the new firm, T.rx

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Opinion: Hospitals need to make their websites as accessible as their physical spaces

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Yet many of their digital front doors block people with disabilities. More than 30 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law with the aim of removing obstacles to people who are blind, deaf, or have other physical or mental disabilities, the digital landscape continues to erect barriers to access.

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NHS rolls out online GP registration to over 2,000 practices

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Around 2,100 GP surgeries had enrolled into the digital service by the end of November - News - PharmaTimes

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