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Amazon in the clouds

Business

Artificial intelligence can help clinicians, Amazon’s AI leader says. ‘But we need to ground that in truth’

Alexa in the hospitala

Health

New voices at patients’ bedsides: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple

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Iowa Baby Brothers

Don't Miss

With time ticking away, clinicians scramble to save newborn twins from the disease that took their brother

By Rebecca Robbins

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Purdue Pharmaceuticals

Health

Tufts to review ties to Purdue Pharma after ‘deeply troubling’ disclosures

By Andrew Joseph

Pharmalot

Rising drug prices are making hospitals feel a little sick

By Ed Silverman

HHS Health and Human Services

Hospitals

Judge blocks Trump administration cuts to 340B hospital drug-discount program

By Ike Swetlitz

Family & doctor communication

Hospitals

A new way to curb harmful medical errors: talk more to patients and families

By Megan Thielking

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Memorial Sloan Kettering

Hospitals

Top cancer center’s business deals created a web of conflicts, say ethics experts

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

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UPMC liver transplant commercial

Hospitals

Hospitals’ national TV ads build brands for transplants and other high-priced services

By Shefali Luthra — Kaiser Health News

Brigham - Dr. Elizabeth Nabel

Hospitals

Covering the cost of high-priced therapies like CAR-T is ‘not sustainable,’ hospital chief says

By Andrew Joseph

Glass vials

Hospitals

ER patients given ketamine, other powerful drugs in clinical trials without their consent, FDA finds

By Sharon Begley

New England Journal of Medicine

Health

New England Journal pulls one paper, probes two others from stem cell researcher

By Elizabeth Cooney

Artificial intelligence illustration

Health

Artificial intelligence has arrived in health care. Here are 7 questions that will define its future

Hospitals

Stanford offers a glimpse into the future of elite children’s hospitals

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey — Boston Globe

Kiran Shelat

Health

Patients who accepted infected kidneys cured of hepatitis C

By Associated Press

A woman undergoing a cardiological examination.

Health

Women survive a heart attack more often when their doctor is female, study finds

By Orly Nadell Farber

Off the Charts

Off the Charts

Dear Atul Gawande: As you go on your listening tour, don’t forget about mental health

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Politics

Trump administration proposes further cuts to drug discount program that helps hospitals

By Erin Mershon

Live Chat

Archived: A chat to discuss Amazon’s pivot into health care

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

Hospital Pharmacy 340B

Hospitals

Appeals court rejects hospital industry’s challenge on 340B changes

By Erin Mershon

Electronic Health Records

First Opinion

Hospitals can save money on drugs without Washington’s help

By Patrick Yoder

Alex Azar - Senate Finance Committee hearing

Politics

Azar makes case for revamping hospital drug discounts — to hospitals defending them

By Erin Mershon

Health

Sepsis is the third leading cause of death. Can a new blood test change that?

By Karen Weintraub

End-of-life health care spending

Health

Are we spending too much on the dying? New research challenges this widely held view

By Orly Nadell Farber

Atul Gawande Ariadne

Health

Inside Ariadne Labs, Atul Gawande’s testing ground for new ideas in health care

By Ike Swetlitz

Lamar Alexander 340B

Politics

Key lawmaker calls for more scrutiny of hospitals using drug discount program — but no broader changes

By Erin Mershon

Sick Watson

Exclusive

IBM Watson Health hampered by internal rivalries and disorganization, former employees say

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

Health

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

Doctor Recording

Health

More patients are taking home recordings of their doctor visits. But who else could listen?