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Health Tech Ida Emilie Steinmark

STAT Plus: To prevent emergency C-sections, researchers turn to AI to predict the course of childbirth

Researchers are testing an AI model to predict whether a pregnant patient will need an emergency C-section, in the hopes they can plan ahead.

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Momentum grows to subject medical devices to medicine’s gold standard — the placebo treatment

First Opinion Smisha Agarwal and Rose Weeks

STAT Plus: AI chatbots can improve health — but only with help from humans

Business Bob Herman and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Buyer’s remorse: How a Medicare Advantage business is strangling one of its first funders

A STAT Investigation Casey Ross and Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

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Health Tech Ambar Castillo

STAT Plus: In Minnesota, researchers explore how to audit health AI models on a patient level

Health Tech Ben Brody

STAT Plus: ‘Truth is losing the battle’: FDA commissioner on grappling with a wave of health misinformation

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Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: A Theranos that works, Best Buy’s home health play, & a chat with B Capital’s Robert Mittendorf

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Best Buy-Atrium deal offers glimpse of tech’s future in home health

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: In Theranos’s backyard, a health tech leader takes another crack at better blood tests

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA rejected Neuralink study pitch, Meta and ByteDance get into proteins, & Color layoffs

Health Tech Ambar Castillo

Covid-19 surveillance added new burdens on essential workers — and gave them little data to protect their health

Health Tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Facebook, TikTok, and proteins: Why big tech companies are betting on AI protein design

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: An investigation into Mindstrong’s unraveling, Cerebral layoffs, and DEA looks to restrict telehealth

Special Report Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: How Mindstrong’s rush to roll out a ‘smoke alarm’ for mental illness led to its downfall

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: AI developers battle with FDA, what’s next with Amazon and One Medical, & protecting wearables data

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: The FDA plans to regulate far more AI tools as devices. The industry won’t go down without a fight

Health Tech Haleluya Hadero — Associated Press

STAT Plus: Amazon closes $3.9B buyout of health company One Medical

Health Tech Ambar Castillo

STAT Plus: Tools to predict stroke risk work less well for Black patients, study finds

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: A device restored hand movement for two stroke survivors. Researchers want to take it mainstream

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medtech starts cutting jobs, Amazon AI researcher jumps to startup, & predicting newborn illness

Health Tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: ‘This is the moment’: Why an Amazon AI researcher is jumping to a medical scribe startup

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: An early-stage investor on care navigation, health tech headwinds, & mental health data brokers

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Could a swallowable, quarter-sized device make diagnosing GI diseases less unpleasant?

Health Tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: How the CPAP crisis has paved the way for Philips’ biggest rivals to rake in profits

First Opinion Steven Lane

STAT Plus: Mr. President, health care has a data problem. ‘Let’s finish the job’

Health Tech Ambar Castillo

STAT Plus: 5 health tech startups targeting chronic kidney disease to watch

Health Tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Verily, struggling to turn profits, taps a Starbucks veteran and ‘Warcraft’ master

Exclusive John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Senators probe telehealth companies for tracking and monetizing sensitive health data