Health

The latest developments affecting patients and practitioners

Atul Gawande Innovation

Business

Five ideas that might steer Gawande as CEO of Amazon-backed health company

By Andrew Joseph and Megan Thielking

Pancreatic cancer cells

Health

Muscle and fat loss may offer clues to pancreatic cancer’s deadly ways

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Health

Can this doctor figure out how to stop Alzheimer’s before it starts?

By Joshua Kendall

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In the Lab

An anti-aging researcher faces the loss of his inspiration: his 96-year-old father

By Karen Weintraub

Facebook Opioid Policy

Health

Facebook to redirect users searching for opioids to federal crisis help line

Biotech

Startups aim to make allies of human gut’s microbes

By Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

In the Lab

Archived chat: last week in CRISPR — cancer, patents, and a dip in the market

By Sharon Begley

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Heavyweights

It’s not ‘all in your head’: When other doctors give up on patients, a boundary-breaking neurologist treats them

By Eric Boodman

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Exclusive

Citing weak demand, IBM Watson Health to scale back hospital business

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

Health

Controversial NIH study of ‘moderate drinking’ will be terminated after scathing report

By Sharon Begley and Andrew Joseph

Smoking

Health

Fewer U.S. teens smoking, doing drugs, and drinking milk

By Associated Press

NEJM Dengue Vaccine

Pharma

Sanofi’s new dengue challenge: find a diagnostic that will make its vaccine safe to use

By Helen Branswell

The Watchdogs

Trump administration is shutting down practice-guidelines clearinghouse for doctors

By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Politics

NIH spells out $500 million plan to improve addiction treatment and pain management

Health

Lobotomies were once used to treat this gut disease, part of a shameful medical history

By Jim Carrier

Exclusive

Alcohol study failed to seek FDA approval, possibly violating federal rules

By Sharon Begley

Health

With short outbreaks and complex permissions, testing critical Ebola treatments is a challenge

By Helen Branswell

IBM Watson

Business

IBM’s problems with Watson Health run deeper than recent layoffs, former employees say

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

Over the Counter Birth Control

Health

Pressure mounts on drug makers to move birth control over the counter

By Megan Thielking

DRC Ebola

Health

China may compete with the West for limited opportunities to test Ebola vaccine

By Helen Branswell

Truth Opioid Epidemic

Health

Crashing cars into walls, breaking hands with hammers: How the White House is warning against opioids

premature pregnancy test

In the Lab

Blood test might help predict both preterm and healthy delivery dates

By Karen Weintraub

Cardio Exam

Health

After malpractice caps, doctors ordered fewer invasive tests to diagnose heart attacks

By Elizabeth Cooney

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Business

The gatekeeper: If you want to make it big in health care, it’ll help to get past Lisa Suennen first

By Rebecca Robbins

DNA testing materials

Health

Genealogy site MyHeritage says 92 million user accounts compromised

By Megan Thielking

Health

As CAR-T treatments advance, Washington grapples with ideas for how to pay for them

By Erin Mershon

Risk Calculator

Health

New risk calculator could change the aspirin, statins, and blood pressure medications some people take

By Elizabeth Cooney

Health

How a U.S. postal stamp helped fund a pivotal study on breast cancer

By Associated Press

Health

A new cancer care dilemma: Patients want immunotherapy even when evidence is lacking