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According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer survival rates vary significantly between different countries.

Insurance navigator Fair Square Medicare raises $15 million, AI-enabled prostate cancer care startup Avenda Health scores $10 million, and oncology clinical trial startup Trial Library emerges from stealth with $5 million.

Also: Decentralized clinical trial startup Curebase names vice president of clinical operations, and digital opioid use disorder-treatment company Ophelia hires a chief technology officer.

Formerly known as IDx, the company received FDA De Novo clearance in 2018 for its IDx-DR system used to detect diabetic retinopathy.

Also, scientists from the University of South Australia have developed tiny fibre sensors for remote patient monitoring.

The company also has pending approvals for the device in Australia and Thailand.

The layoffs represent 13% of the AI-backed genomic and clinical data company's workforce.

The startup's tool records and transcribes conversations between providers and patients, and then organizes relevant information about health conditions, symptoms and next steps.

According to Deloitte's survey, 49% of respondents said they'd attended a virtual medical appointment as a patient in the past year, while 26% said they'd been to a virtual visit where another person was the patient.

It measures the cortical thickness in a brain scan to provide a patient's level of brain ageing.