Health tech

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Scientists install ‘window’ in the skull to record brain activity using ultrasound

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Health insurers boast to investors about using AI, but they’d rather not talk about it

Biotech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Gene therapies for deafness dredge up an old question: Do deaf people want a ‘cure’?

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Cue Health, Covid-19 testing company, is shutting down

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Eyeing GLP-1 opportunity, Click buys assets of Better Therapeutics

Health tech Casey Ross and Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: AI & drug discovery: A biotech CEO, a scientist, and a venture capitalist separate hype from reality

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence and Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: A novel spinal cord stimulator treats paralysis without surgery. FDA will rule on it soon

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Venture capitalist Bob Kocher on generative AI startups, Change Healthcare cyberattack

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Wearable devices generate powerful data but it’s not useful to doctors, yet

Health tech Katherine MacPhail and Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: NVIDIA’s Kimberly Powell touts progress on AI in drug discovery

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Microsoft’s Peter Lee says ChatGPT shouldn’t be used for initial diagnosis

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Abbott’s dissolvable stent, which failed heart disease patients, may help vascular patients

Politics Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: The White House hikes tariffs on Chinese medical products

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Cue Health’s Covid-19 tests could give false results, FDA warns

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Software glitch caused Tandem insulin pumps to prematurely shut down, FDA warns

Health tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: In fundamental advance, Google says AlphaFold 3 can map a vast universe of biomolecules

Health tech Mario Aguilar and Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Apple pushes into clinical trials with new FDA nod for Apple Watch

Health tech Mario Aguilar and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: House panel eyes PBM reform to pay for telehealth extensions

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Assistants, not replacements: How AI can accelerate research and health care

Politics Mario Aguilar and Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Lawmakers unlikely to permanently extend telehealth flexibilities this year

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Transcarent, Glen Tullman’s health tech unicorn, raises $126 million

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times

Business Bob Herman

STAT Plus: In a big reversal, Walmart to shut down medical clinics and online care

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Akili to lay off 46% of its staff, explore strategic options amid sluggish sales

Politics Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA finalizes plan to regulate some lab-developed tests

Health tech Associated Press

STAT Plus: Philips will pay $1.1 billion to resolve U.S. lawsuits over breathing machines that expel debris

Health tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: AI is becoming the exclusive province of academic medicine. A new initiative aims to change that

Health tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Generative AI is supposed to save doctors from burnout. New data show it needs more training

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: HCA to expand the use of AI tool to automate clinical documentation in ER