STAT+: FDA panel votes against high blood pressure device from Medtronic, but lends support to ReCor Medical’s
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration delivered a split decision on a…
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FDA greenlights medical device to combat bladder issues
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STAT+: FDA advisory panel to debate contentious data on Medtronic’s high blood pressure device
An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration will convene on Tuesday to evaluate…
STAT+: As the obesity drug market grows, digital health companies juggle patients and payers
To much of the public, the promise of telehealth is all about convenience — get…
STAT+: ActiGraph executives on why getting digital endpoints approved for drug trials matters
As drugmakers wade into using digital health technologies, ActiGraph has made its mission to become…
STAT+: Health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year as inflation pinched workers, analysis shows
The health care industry didn’t just provide a safe haven for jittery stock investors in…
The latest recall of Philips ventilators reveals one death, two injuries
In March, Philips recalled more than 73,000 ventilators that absorbed dust and dirt into breathing…
YouTube cracks down on misinformation on cancer treatment
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STAT+: BMS, looking to build a market for a heart drug, turns to a Viz.ai algorithm to detect disease
As Bristol Myers Squibb works to build its treatment for a heart condition that can…
Opinion: Home blood pressure machines are often wrong. The FDA must speak up
Hypertension is considered to be the No. 1 risk factor for death globally. So it’s…
Kim Kardashian sparks debate on the benefits of full-body MRI scans
The last time Kim Kardashian posted about medical imaging, it was to prove her butt…
Tuberculosis outbreak tied to bone grafts underscores shortcomings of testing
One person has died and at least four have been sickened by tuberculosis in infected…
Pharma budget tightening trickles down to Doximity
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STAT+: Telehealth companies are driving a large share of weight loss drug prescriptions, claims data suggest
As a new class of obesity medications has soared in popularity, so have the online…
Opinion: STAT+: One way to create resilient drug supply chains: incentivize predictive models
My first exposure to pharmaceutical shortages happened in 2017 as a new-to-practice nurse working on…
STAT+: ‘No data more personal’: Patients, digital health players weigh in on the FTC’s data privacy plan
This year has seen the Federal Trade Commission crack down on digital health companies’ irresponsible…
Ransomware attack shuts down hospital emergency rooms in several states
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From windows to wall art, hospitals use virtual reality to design more inclusive rooms for kids
BERKELEY, Calif. — For many young patients, harsh lights, bare walls, and windows facing parking…
STAT+: For brain-computer interfaces, the commercial hurdles may be bigger than scientific ones
Rodney Gorham loves fast, flashy cars: His WhatsApp profile picture is a bright yellow Corvette…
TytoCare raises $49 million to build out AI-enhanced chronic care
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Opinion: ‘Oppenheimer’ is a must-watch for everyone who works in AI and health care
All great stories have complicated endings. But that doesn’t mean they can’t offer simple and…
STAT+: Verily hires former Apple Health leader Andrew Trister as chief scientific officer
As Verily aims to get on track, the Alphabet life science company has hired Andrew…
Amazon expands telehealth clinic nationwide
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STAT+: Microsoft strikes partnership with Duke Health to advance AI in medicine
On Tuesday, Duke Health and Microsoft announced a five-year partnership that will support artificial intelligence…
STAT+: How Y Combinator’s only health care partner decides which startups are worth a shot
This story is the first in a series of profiles of influential figures and decision-makers…
To detect breast cancer sooner, an MIT professor designs an ultrasound bra
Canan Dagdeviren has dedicated her career to creating tools that can capture data from every…
STAT+: With profitability in sight, Talkspace is budding into a digital health success story
Virtual mental health company Talkspace on Thursday added to its run of promising earnings reports,…
STAT+: Medical device maker Teleflex to acquire urology company Palette Life Sciences for $600 million
Teleflex announced plans on Wednesday to acquire Palette Life Sciences, the maker of a slate…
STAT+: Truvian presents data for its desktop blood-testing device in a field still in Theranos’s shadow
SAN DIEGO — Truvian Health, a San Diego blood diagnostics company, shared data on Tuesday…
A health system tests virtual reality to help train nurses
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As Alzheimer’s drugs hit the market, the race for early detection blood tests heats up
With the advent of disease-modifying Alzheimer’s drugs, everyone in the world of Alzheimer’s diagnostics is…
STAT+: IQVIA built a health data empire to target drug ads. Now it’s the focus of an FTC lawsuit
The health data giant IQVIA became a dominant force by gobbling up its rivals. Over…
The AMA’s new president on medicine’s ‘AI era’ and the uncertain future of telehealth
Much has been made of Jesse Ehrenfeld’s career of firsts. The current president of the…
A new deal aims to ramp up use of AI in rehab care decisions
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Preparation over panic: How a Boston hospital is priming medical residents for an era of AI medicine
BOSTON — On a Friday morning in July, an internal medicine resident at Beth Israel…
Opinion: A program to bring internet access to low-income people is running out of money. Health care will suffer
This past winter, one of us, Alister, was speaking with the daughter of an elderly…
TikTok cracks down on users posting about popular weight loss drugs
As the demand for GLP-1 based drugs grows, content about the new class of weight…
Opinion: Policymakers who want to regulate AI need to start talking to health care industry representatives
Recently, the fervor over artificial intelligence has given way to expressions of fears of the…
STAT+: App developer Twill hunts for pharma partner to market its digital depression treatment
In another sign of the business headwinds facing prescription mental health apps, developer Twill will…
STAT+: To get better heart data from wearables, researchers train AI to separate the signal from the noise
As wearable health devices grow more popular in the U.S., there’s a growing opportunity to…
STAT+: At Orexo, a ‘turning point’ for everything but digital health
Most everything is looking up for Orexo, the company reported on its second quarter earnings…
STAT+: ‘Doctors need to get on top of this’: GPT-4 displays bias in medical tasks
Diagnosis is an especially tantalizing application for generative AI: Even when given tough cases that…
STAT+: As digital health tech proliferates, a new institute aims to cut through hype
A new $50 million nonprofit initiative aims to independently evaluate health technologies’ impact on costs…
Hearing aids may slow mental decline in those at higher risk of dementia, study finds
Doctors have long suspected that hearing loss in older adults hastens dementia, the cognitive decline…
Nearly 8,000 blood tests recalled over risk of missed heart attack diagnosis
QuidelOrtho has recalled nearly 8,000 potentially faulty blood tests meant to help doctors quickly determine…
STAT+: Electronic health record maker NextGen Healthcare to pay $31 million to resolve fraud claims
The health records company NextGen Healthcare will pay $31 million to resolve allegations that it…
How telehealth startups are trying to fill the menopause care vacuum
At the turn of the century, nearly 18 million women in the United States were…
STAT+: As fear rises over AI, Google and Epic fight stronger regulation of the technology in health care
Big businesses poised to profit from the advance of artificial intelligence in health care are…
Big Health acquires Limbix, maker of mental health app for depression in adolescents
Big Health, one of the leading companies producing apps to help treat mental health conditions,…
After FDA nod, Better Therapeutics races to boost dwindling cash
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