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Roundup: Italy's digital therapeutics opportunities, Egyptian e-health company secures grant for br…
By Sara Mageit | 10:40 am | February 12, 2021
Also, Saudi German Hospital rebrands for first time in 30 years.
Chrono Therapeutics receives $2.3M grant from NCI for smoking cessation wearable
By Aditi Pai | 12:16 pm | August 26, 2015
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded Chrono Therapeutics a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant of up to $2.
Randomized trial finds SmartQuit app 60 percent more effective than NCI's smoking cessation app
By Aditi Pai | 07:49 am | November 11, 2014
Seattle-based behavior change company 2Morrow has launched an app, called SmartQuit, that aims to help smokers quit.
Users more likely to abstain from smoking using Text2Quit than an educational website
By Aditi Pai | 11:18 am | June 11, 2014
Around 11 percent of smokers who participated in a texting-based smoking cessation intervention program were able to abstain from using cigarettes six months after the start of the program, while only 5 percent of smokers in the control group were able to do so, according to a study of 503 people published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.