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Egyptian health and wellness platform Esaal raises $1.7M to scale across MENA

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Venture

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Startups

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Startups

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Biotech & Health

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Einat Metzer

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Biotech & Health

Virta Health’s behavioral diabetes treatment service is now worth over $1 billion

Jonathan Shieber

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Startups

Ro makes the weight loss product Plenity commercially available to everyone in the US

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Startups

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Startups

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Jonathan Shieber

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Startups

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Media & Entertainment

WW launches Kurbo, a hotly debated ‘healthy eating’ app aimed at kids

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Startups

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Startups

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Startups

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Hardware

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Sarah Buhr

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Startups

Allurion offers gastric bypass surgery in a pill

Sarah Buhr

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Biotech & Health

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Sarah Buhr

Jul 3, 2014

Hardware

Japanese company sells male-only combat cookies to fight obesity

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Hardware

San Francisco mayor wants fat tax on soda, soda industry wants fat tax on video games instead

Contributor

Dec 19, 2007

Hardware

Schools Use DDR to Cure Fat Kids

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Apr 30, 2007

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