About HealthTrade
A healthcare research site: health news, FDA catalysts, clinical trials and company filings in one place, each with a link to where it came from.
Not investment advice
HealthTrade is for research and education. It does not tell anyone to buy, sell or hold a security, and it does not give price targets or position sizes. Dates and facts come from public sources and can change; check the linked source before relying on them.
What you can do here
- Health News hub
Health, biotech and FDA headlines from public feeds, sorted into sectors and specialties. Every story links to its publisher.
- FDA calendar and drug database
PDUFA dates, advisory committees and FDA actions, plus drugs in development from ClinicalTrials.gov and Drugs@FDA, each with its source.
- CT-VCA scores
A trial evidence score across six domains, from trial design to data integrity, graded A to F with the reasons shown.
- Triage AI assistant
Questions in plain English about drugs, trials and companies, answered only from HealthTrade records, with citations.
- Insider tracking
SEC Form 4 filings by officers and directors of healthcare companies, listed with the filing they came from.
- Alerts
Reminders before PDUFA dates and when a company you follow is in the news, in the app and by email.
Where the data comes from
- U.S. FDA: Drugs@FDA and openFDA (opens in a new tab): Approvals, action letters, complete response letters and device decisions
- FDA press releases (opens in a new tab): FDA news and safety announcements
- ClinicalTrials.gov (opens in a new tab): Trial designs, status and enrolment, and the records CT-VCA scores
- SEC EDGAR (opens in a new tab): Company filings: PDUFA dates, deals and insider trades (Form 4)
- Federal Register (opens in a new tab): FDA advisory committee meeting notices
- PubMed (opens in a new tab): Research papers in the specialty news sections
- PR Newswire (opens in a new tab): Company press releases in Health News
- NPPES NPI Registry (opens in a new tab): Checking physicians who apply for the Verified AlphaDoc badge
- Marketstack (opens in a new tab): End-of-day share prices, each shown with its date
Editors check company-reported PDUFA dates and deals against the filing text before they appear.
How scores and estimates work
- CT-VCA rates the quality of a clinical trial record against a published rubric, from A to F: Trial Design, Endpoint Rigor and Statistical Validity (20 points each), Safety Profile and Regulatory Alignment (15 each) and Data Integrity (10). Scores show their rubric version and stay Provisional until a second analyst signs them off. See the rubric.
- FDA approval estimates appear only after a model passes all nine release checks on past FDA decisions and a second admin approves it. Until then no probability is shown anywhere on the site.
- Triage answers from HealthTrade's own records and lists the records it used. Your browser talks only to HealthTrade; our server sends the question and the matching records to OpenAI to write the answer, never your name or email.
Plans
- Free$0/month· To get started
- Pro$29/month· For regular research
- Elite$99/month· For professional research
- EnterpriseCustom· For teams and funds
Each plan's features are on the pricing page. Enterprise plans are arranged with our team.
Help
- The seven tabs under the header are the main sections: Overview, Health News, Research, Markets, Tools, Network and Account. The tab of the section you are in is underlined.
- The left menu lists every page you can open under the same seven headings, in the same order. Markets also lists the health sectors and the clinical specialties. Each heading opens and closes, and this browser remembers your choice. Counts show your FDA Calendar events in the next 30 days, your watch items and your active alerts. On phones and tablets, open the menu with the button at the top left.
- The theme button in the header switches between System, Light and Dark. System follows your device setting.
- Health News has its own sections: Health News, Health Market, Experts / Opinions, Health Investor and AlphaDoc.
- Ctrl K or ⌘K moves to the search box. Members open Triage with Ctrl J or ⌘J. Esc closes menus, panels and the phone menu.
- The price strip at the top shows end-of-day closes, not live quotes. Hover over it, focus it or press Pause to stop it moving.