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🌡 HealthTech That Heals: For Your Skin, Your Gut, and Your Peace of Mind

Smarter care tools for chronic conditions, early detection, and everyday dignity

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September 17, 2025

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This week’s HealthHack Newsletter is focused on what matters most: real solutions for real people.

Whether it’s better recovery from colorectal cancer surgery, safer options for chronic pain, or promising treatments for blood cancers, these stories reflect where innovation meets need. We spotlight new skin therapies that heal without harsh scarring, smarter support for infants, and AI tools that don’t replace your doctor - they help them help you.

If you or someone you love is managing a health condition, this issue offers a hopeful glimpse at what’s just around the corner.

Let’s get into it.

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EDITOR’S CHOICE ✨ 

Text Your Doc (And Actually Get a Response)

What if managing a chronic condition felt less like a series of rushed appointments and more like an ongoing, supportive conversation?

Doctor.One is building just that: an asynchronous platform that lets healthcare professionals stay continuously connected with their chronic care patients - without adding to their already full plates. It’s not telemedicine 2.0, it’s relationship-driven care that happens in between clinic visits. Think of it as the WhatsApp thread your health actually needs.

Cancer, Clarified

Teaching Tumors a Viral Lesson

Highlight Therapeutics is betting on BO-112, a compound that mimics viral infections to fire up the immune system against tough skin cancers. Already in Phase 2b trials for basal cell carcinoma, it’s also shown promise against melanoma. If successful, it could offer a new way to activate the immune system where other therapies fall flat.

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Skin That Heals, Not Just Covers

Swiss BioTech CUTISS is reimagining burn and reconstructive surgery with denovoSkin, a bioengineered, personalized skin graft that grows with the patient and minimizes scarring. Now in Phase 3 trials, it’s paired with the world’s first automated manufacturing platform for personalized tissue therapy. The potential? Scalable, scar-minimizing skin for patients who need more than traditional grafts can offer.

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New Frontiers in Care

Reversing the Ostomy Status Quo

SafeHeal’s Colovac is changing what happens after colorectal surgery. Instead of a stoma, patients can get a temporary internal bypass that’s removed endoscopically after healing - no second surgery needed. It’s a subtle shift with massive implications for dignity, recovery, and long-term quality of life

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New Targets in Blood Cancer

Gyala Therapeutics is stepping into the CAR-T spotlight with GYA01, a therapy that targets the novel protein CD84 in aggressive blood cancers like AML and T-ALL. In preclinical trials, GYA01 wiped out disease in animal models and showed high precision with low toxicity - offering hope to patients who have exhausted current treatment options.

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VISIONARY VOICES đź’¬ 

The Future of Prenatal Risk Prediction

AI isn’t just about robots - it’s about better results.

Prenaital is bringing new clarity to prenatal care with a platform that allegedly detects complications earlier and more accurately than standard ultrasounds. For families navigating pregnancy, this could mean a safer start to life and fewer surprises down the line.

Next-Gen Therapeutics

Not Your Typical Painkiller

TAFALGIE THERAPEUTICS is targeting pain relief without the opioid baggage. Their lead compound, derived from TAFA4 protein, tackles everything from post-op to neuropathic pain - minus the risk of addiction or sedation. With clinical trials underway, this could be a long-overdue shift for the millions of people living with chronic pain.

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Microbiome in a Bottle

Breastfeeding isn’t always an option - but BoobyBiome is working to close the health gap for babies who don’t get the natural microbiome boost from breast milk. Their patented storage device preserves key milk nutrients, while their live microbiome drops deliver beneficial bacteria to infants who need it most.

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Well that’s it! đźš€ 

From colorectal cancer recovery to breakthroughs in leukemia and safer pain relief, this issue brings you the tech shaping tomorrow’s care - especially for conditions that affect us as we age.

Health isn’t just about the future - it’s about improving your quality of life now.

Thanks for reading the HealthHack Newsletter. We’ll be back soon with more health tech that meets you where it matters most.

Your HealthHack Team