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- How Sage Therapeutics is trying to avoid another flop with its second drug;
- ElevateBio raises $525 million from investors including SoftBank.
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Amazon is gearing up to launch its telehealth business for other companies and the rest of its US employees
Amazon is expanding its healthcare business, Amazon Care, nationally.- It started the service, which does telehealth and home visits, with Amazon workers in Washington.
- Amazon Care is the beginning of Amazon's efforts to change how people in the US get healthcare.
Sage's first depression drug flopped. The biotech's CEO shares how he's trying to avoid a repeat with its next treatment.
- Barry Greene took over as Sage's CEO after it cut the entire sales force behind its first drug.
- Its second drug, zuranolone, must compete with cheap depression drugs already on the market.
- The zuranolone launch could also affect Biogen's business, thanks to a $3.1 billion partnership.
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SoftBank is betting on a gene therapy biotech in a mammoth $525 million round. ElevateBio's CEO told us how he plans to use the cash to support a genetic revolution in medicine.
- The Massachusetts biotech
ElevateBio raised $525 million in an industry-record Series C round. - The company produces cell- and gene-therapy medicines and is also now making its own research bets.
- The latest raise includes funds from the investment firm SoftBank.
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