hospitals

Infusion pump

Pharmalot

More hospital drug spending is going toward cancer immunotherapies

By Ed Silverman

Emergency Room bed

First Opinion

When waiting feels immoral: Fairness in the emergency department calls for empathy from all of us

By Jay Baruch

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Station F

Health Tech

In this Silicon-Valley-by-the-Seine, a former dropout hopes to win at the health-tech startup game

By Eric Boodman

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CAR-T Therapy in France

First Opinion

Letting academic medical centers make CAR-T drugs would save billions

By David Mitchell, Saad Kenderian, and S. Vincent Rajkumar

Surgical instrument tray

First Opinion

In the hospital supply chain, too many choices can be costly

By Chuck Peck

NSH Operating room

Health Tech

Stanford’s new hospital is brimming with futuristic tech. Will it help save money — or drive up costs?

By Rebecca Robbins

Health Tech

In a ‘Wild West’ environment, hospitals differ sharply in what patient data they give Google

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Health Tech

HHS to probe whether Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ followed federal privacy law

By Rebecca Robbins and Casey Ross

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Childbirth trauma illustration

Health

Ignored, threatened, berated: After difficult childbirth experiences, new parents seek healing by speaking up

By Elizabeth Preston

OnMed

Health Tech

This booth can virtually connect patients with clinicians and dispense medications. Will patients use it?

By Megan Thielking

Borgesian labyrinth

First Opinion

The EMR has changed the doctor-patient duet into a ménage-à-trois

By Danielle Ofri

ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

Health

Massachusetts General Hospital oversaw trial that led to the first death from a fecal transplant, a new paper shows

By Kate Sheridan

heart-cholesterol

Health Tech

AI is used to mine health data to find undiagnosed patients, offering a model for other diseases

By Rebecca Robbins

Pharmalot

Pharmalittle: Step forward for ovarian cancer drugs; Pelosi’s drug pricing plan could hit hospitals hard

By Elizabeth Cooney

Pile of Pennies

Politics

Pelosi’s drug pricing plan could wipe out some key funding for low-income hospitals

By Nicholas Florko

Health

Watch: In a quest for more precise cancer care, hospitals invest in new tools — and new training, too

By Megan Thielking

MGH

Health

To speed drug development, Mass. General to begin ALS trials that test several compounds at once

By Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

Parachutes

First Opinion

Constant, rapid testing is key to creating the ‘learning health system’ of the future

By Leora I. Horwitz

Federal Building DOJ

Politics

Couple stole trade secrets from U.S. children’s hospital to market their Chinese biotech, prosecutors say

Postpartum moment

First Opinion

5 things hospitals can do today to keep women from dying during childbirth

By Amy Compton-Phillips

Woman, doctor by window

Hospitals

It’s not just bosses who harass health workers: Hospitals start addressing patients’ ‘egregious’ behavior

By Jacquelyn Corley

Ambulance - night

Health

In an emergency, where ambulances take patients differs by race, study finds

By Jacquelyn Corley

TOYOTA factory

First Opinion

Hospitals’ new emergency department triage systems boost profits but compromise care

By Keith Corl

Emergency room bays

First Opinion

Every hospital needs ‘recovery coaches’ for patients with substance use problems

By James Baird

Medical residents

First Opinion

Stop treating medical residents like indentured servants

By Kim-Lien Nguyen

Making clearer

First Opinion

Trump is trying to end secret health care price negotiations. You should be on his side

By David Vivero

IV for Ketamine

Pharmalot

A drug maker replaces an old treatment and boosts the price by 1,300%

By Ed Silverman

Health

Top U.S. medical centers roll out DNA sequencing clinics for healthy (and often wealthy) clients

By Rebecca Robbins

CT scan

Health Tech

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

By Jacquelyn Corley