Shuttle Pharmaceuticals and PaxMedica launch two small initial public offerings in the US as the market awaits a significant IPO. Also, Assertio closed a $70m follow-on offering, Codiak restructures and cuts jobs, and Vilya emerges with $50m in series A venture capital. 

Accenture released its Life Sciences Technology Vision 2022 report, including a survey of biopharma execs on trends like synthetic data and quantum computing.

In this month’s Digital Health roundup, Medtech Insight’s Reed Miller talks about iRhythm and Withings’ smartwatches business, Barnaby Pickering reviews digital therapeutics Pear Therapeutics’ restructuring, and Marion Webb presents highlights from her new series on Agetech.

Agency leader expects to spend about a year developing a strategy to combat misinformation. On 5 August, the agency unveiled what appears to be an early component of the initiative – a web page titled Rumor Control, with facts about the safety and components of COVID-19 vaccines.