STAT+: Transplant patients say new Medicare guidance puts their donated organs at risk
Margaret Gamble was supposed to receive a blood test in the mail in May. It’s…
Category: diagnostics
Opinion: Opportunistic CT: There’s gold in them there images
More than 80 million CT scans are performed each year in the U.S. alone. In…
Opinion: Will AI soon diagnose politicians’ mental health conditions from afar?
For psychiatrists, Donald Trump’s third run for the presidency means that we’ll once again face…
Opinion: Three ways to test medical AI for safety
This article is adapted from “The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond,” by Peter…
Opinion: Starting breast cancer screening at 40 saved my life
In 2015, the year I turned 40, the American Cancer Society updated its guidelines for…
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FDA issues rare comment on approval of Covid and flu home test from company that went bankrupt
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the first at-home…
STAT+: Liquid-biopsy firm Grail is spending more than ever lobbying Congress
Grail spent more than $1 million last quarter lobbying Congress, underscoring the urgency of the…
Opinion: Lessons learned from the deadly combination of sepsis and Covid-19
Sepsis, a deadly overreaction of the immune system to infection, has befuddled clinicians and researchers…
Opinion: The real crime of Theranos: Loss of trust in real-time diagnostics
Ramesh Balwani, the chief operating officer of Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13…
Opinion: Congress needs to update FDA’s ability to regulate diagnostic tests, cosmetics
Congress is considering two measures that modernize tools the Food and Drug Administration uses to…
Opinion: Better lab test standards can ensure precision medicine is truly precise
Cancer is becoming less deadly in America. According to the recently released Annual Report to…
Opinion: Congress should not compel Medicare to pay for liquid biopsies
When the two Republican senators from Mississippi cosponsor legislation with the two Democratic senators from…
STAT+: Illumina wins case against FTC in bid to hold onto early cancer detection company Grail
SAN DIEGO — Sequencing behemoth Illumina on Thursday won its case against the Federal Trade…
Opinion: PCR testing can help clarify confusion over Covid-19 rebound and isolation
President Biden’s recent case of Covid-19, its rebound, and his extended isolation offers an opportunity…
STAT+: Cue Health rode Covid-19 to an NBA deal and a $3 billion valuation. Now it faces layoffs and a rocky future
It didn’t have the brand recognition of Abbott, or the billions of the medical technology…
Opinion: It’s time to move past Aduhelm and focus on a broader Alzheimer’s drug pipeline
When Alzheimer’s disease was believed to be caused solely by the accumulation of amyloid protein…
‘Testing bottleneck’ for monkeypox puts hope of containment at risk, experts warn
Infectious disease specialists are growing increasingly concerned by the U.S. strategy for testing for monkeypox,…
STAT+: Justice Department says sweeping lab test fraud in Texas involved dozens of doctors and front companies
A new Justice Department lawsuit describes a sweeping fraud scheme in which dozens of Texas…
On the lookout for monkeypox, CDC considers expanding test capacity
With the United States on the lookout for more monkeypox cases, federal health officials this…
STAT+: ‘No real clear path’: Insurance coverage for cutting-edge diagnostics remains a major challenge for personalized medicine
DANA POINT, Calif. — Even the best treatment for a disease is no help if…
STAT+: With milestones on the horizon, Guardant Health CEOs lay out their vision for cancer detection
SAN DIEGO — Bay Area biotech Guardant Health is closer than ever to its ultimate…
Scientists try to pinpoint why rapid Covid tests are missing cases
Marianna Parker, a Boston-area pediatrician, wanted to make sure she, her husband, and her toddler…
Opinion: Containing Covid-19 requires rapid tests that are highly sensitive to infections. Why is the FDA asking for something different?
With rapid testing becoming a key tool in the fight against Covid-19, in a mid-October…
Predicting preeclampsia from a blood test holds promise for pregnancy complications
Preeclampsia is a potentially serious problem that usually surfaces late in pregnancy, posing an immediate…
Opinion: Health tech needs to rebuild trust in the wake of the Theranos verdict
Monday’s news that Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, was found guilty of…
Opinion: As vaccination efforts falter, the U.S. must get serious about Covid-19 testing and reporting
As the U.S. heads into Thanksgiving and the holiday season beyond, new cases of Covid-19…
Covid antivirals could be pandemic game-changers. But Americans might struggle to access them
Antiviral drugs for treating Covid-19 have been hailed as a pandemic “game-changer” — a tool…
Sequencing whole genomes helps diagnose far more rare diseases, study shows
When the U.K.’s National Health Service started to use whole genome sequencing, doctors were able…
Opinion: Make Covid-19 testing an empowering choice rather than a draconian punishment
Public health is at its best when it is pragmatic in the face of complex…
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Opinion: Had I done Ancestry.com sooner, I could have gotten a kidney transplant two years earlier
For the past few years, experts have criticized — and defended — the use of…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: Pain and Promise: Examining a Fibromyalgia Blood Test
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
STAT+: Illumina will launch Grail’s cancer detection test in Africa and Asia — but doesn’t know when
Sequencing company Illumina is planning to launch Galleri — the much-hyped cancer detection test from…
STAT+: Could wearable tech — and AI — change how we diagnose infants with conditions like cerebral palsy?
An unlikely team of engineers and mobility researchers has developed an experimental set of small,…
STAT+: In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?
Cindy Bradley-Graziadei almost didn’t take the test. By the time she saw it advertised, in…
Three lessons for the effort to scale up Covid-19 rapid tests
In Ann Arbor, Mich., as in many other cities across the country, you’d be hard-pressed…
Biden moves to ramp up at-home Covid-19 testing
The White House announced on Wednesday a $1 billion purchase of at-home rapid tests for…
A new study points to the power of wearables to predict even presymptomatic infections, suggesting use one day against Covid-19
A new study that infected willing participants with common cold and flu viruses provides the…
Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function
An expert task force on Thursday released a new and much-anticipated approach for diagnosing kidney…
Opinion: Beyond ‘vaccinopia’: Rapid tests should play a larger role in Biden’s Covid-19 plan
America is suffering from a serious case of vaccinopia: an inability to look beyond shots…
Listen: Verily’s moment of truth, Aduhelm’s rocky rollout, & the problem with Covid testing
Are we ever getting that Tricorder? Why’s it so hard to find Covid-19 tests? And…
Pandemic lockdown tied to worse outcomes in metastatic colorectal cancer, French study says
One of the most pressing questions during the coronavirus pandemic has been its impact on…
Listen: Elizabeth Holmes on trial, FDA in disarray, & the quest for Covid antivirals
Does the Theranos trial actually matter? Is the FDA coming unglued? And what can prescription…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: Theranos returns
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Watch: As Elizabeth Holmes stands trial on fraud charges, catch up on the Theranos saga
Elizabeth Holmes was poised to become the next college-dropout-turned-tech-billionaire. But there was only one problem:…
What to watch for as the long-awaited Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial unfolds
After two delays, two documentaries, and enough podcast hours to fill even the longest of…
STAT+: 4 ways Elizabeth Holmes could win over a jury
Elizabeth Holmes may be guilty in the minds of millions who consumed the best-selling book,…
STAT+: The Theranos scandal cast a pall over self-testing. The pandemic is giving the industry another shot
This could have been Elizabeth Holmes’ moment. When the then-19-year-old founded Theranos in 2003, she…
A Theranos redux & and vaccine outreach via EHRs
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: Elizabeth Holmes will be on trial. But the evidence will expose a bigger collision between tech culture and health care
When the long-awaited trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Homes opens at the end of…
Opinion: Medicare: Cover amyloid PET scans and stop keeping people with dementia in the dark
One morning in 2012, my wife Geri looked in the mirror and failed to recognize…