Health Tech

The latest on how tech giants and startups are trying to disrupt the delivery of health care and the development of drugs.

CT scan
Health Tech

With brain trauma, surgeons don’t always know if an operation will help. Could AI change that?

By Jacquelyn Corley

Women supporting women
Health Tech

One health care startup at a time, this venture capitalist wants to harness the investing power of women

By Megan Thielking

Health Tech

With Alzheimer’s research at a crossroads, AI might point the way forward

By Casey Ross

Bakul Patel
Health Tech

Q&A: The FDA’s digital health chief on how to regulate futuristic AI products

By Andrew Joseph

DNA crowd
Health Tech

Health tech companies are swallowing up consumers’ DNA. Can Congress safeguard what they do with it?

By Andrew Joseph

Amgen HQ
Health Tech

Health-tech startups dream of partnering with big drug makers. First comes an intense winnowing process

By Rebecca Robbins

Mental health tech
Health Tech

5 burning questions about mental health technology

By Megan Thielking

Digital kidney
Health Tech

DeepMind AI predicts acute loss of kidney function two days in advance, study shows

By Casey Ross

AI and heart disease
Health Tech

5 ways artificial intelligence is already changing cardiac care

By Casey Ross

Nasdaq on screen
Health Tech

Here come the first true digital health IPOs. We’ve got 5 burning questions — and some answers

By Rebecca Robbins

Health Tech

How an AI expert took on his toughest project ever: writing code to save his son’s life

By Casey Ross

Pregnancy Tech illustration
Health Tech

As pregnancy tech proliferates, women and their doctors wade through what’s helpful — and what’s a headache

By Megan Thielking

FDA Campus
Pharmalot

Was it really a smart move for the FDA to approve a ‘smart pill’ for treating schizophrenia?

By Ed Silverman

Brain zaps
In the Lab

Do Elon Musk’s brain-decoding implants have potential? Experts say they just might

By Sharon Begley and Rebecca Robbins

Pancreatic cancer cells
Health Tech

An experimental AI system can predict when pancreatic cysts will become cancerous

By Casey Ross

Tesla CEO Elon Musk
In the Lab

Elon Musk wants to test brain-reading implants in paralyzed patients next year

By Rebecca Robbins

Eye close up
Health Tech

5 burning questions about using artificial intelligence to prevent blindness

By Lauren Joseph

Health Tech

How do you make a mental health app people actually want to use? Take a page from podcasts and Pixar

By Megan Thielking

Beth Israel Deaconess
Health Tech

How patient records from one Boston hospital fueled an explosion in AI research in medicine

By Rebecca Robbins

Smart speakers
Health Tech

5 burning questions about deploying voice recognition technology in health care

By Ruth Hailu

Hands holding tablet
Health Tech

5 names to know in digital therapeutics: the people behind apps that work like medicines

By Kate Sheridan

Insulin injection
Health Tech

Diabetes-coaching startup Livongo files to go public in a test for health tech

By Casey Ross and Rebecca Robbins

Health Tech

Potential class action lawsuit accuses the University of Chicago of sharing identifiable patient data with Google

By Rebecca Robbins

Digital health
Health Tech

5 burning questions about digital health and chronic disease management

By Brittany Flaherty

Capitol Building
Politics

Consumer genetic testing companies team up to lobby on privacy policy

By Andrew Joseph

Play
Health Tech

Watch: At this hospital, drones are the new medical couriers

By Dominic Smith

Health Tech

This period-tracking app company is trying to help scientists study the effects of weather, seasons, and exercise on fertility

By Kate Sheridan

Health Tech

Webinar: Progress and pitfalls in the AI-aided search for novel drugs

By Casey Ross and Kate Sheridan

Long shadow of Alexa
In the Lab

‘Alexa, are you listening?’ An experimental tool warns of cardiac arrest by monitoring breathing

By Diana Cai

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