Medical Devices

Allurion
Health

New wave of medical devices look to combat ‘alarmingly high’ obesity rates

By Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

BIRTH CONTROL
Health

Will insurers have to cover the controversial contraception app Natural Cycles under Obamacare’s mandate?

By Kate Sheridan

Natural Cycles
Health

Swedish regulator finds no major issues with controversial contraception app

By Kate Sheridan

Apple Debuts Latest Products
Health

Here’s the data behind the new Apple Watch EKG app

By Kate Sheridan

Apple Showcase Electrocardiogram
First Opinion

The next Apple Watch wants to monitor your heart. Should you let it?

By Anthony Pearson

New apple watch
Health

The new Apple Watch, with FDA’s blessing, comes with an EKG app

By Kate Sheridan

MedTechVisionv2018
Business

At this health care gathering, all the panelists and dealmakers are women

By Rebecca Robbins

First Opinion

As free innovation encounters health care regulation, think ‘soft laws’

By Robert Graboyes and Sara Rogers

Infusion pump
Health

FDA urged to take stronger action to protect medical devices from hacking

By Megan Thielking

Fertility App
Health

Controversial contraception app approved in U.S. drawing scrutiny overseas

By Kate Sheridan

Yoko K. Sen
Health

Anatomy of a beep: A medical device giant and an avant-garde musician set out to redesign a heart monitor’s chirps

By Eric Boodman

Bleeding Edge Screen Cap
First Opinion

Lessons for physicians from ‘The Bleeding Edge’: If you see something, say something

By Erich Anderer

Woman holding phone
Health

FDA clears controversial fertility app to prevent pregnancy

By Kate Sheridan

Gottlieb Generic Drugs
Health

FDA cracks down on ‘vaginal rejuvenation’ devices, citing potential for serious harm

By Megan Thielking

An x-ray of a hip replacement.
The Watchdogs

Artificial hip maker demands retraction of a paper calling its research ‘grave fraudulence’

By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

First Opinion

A tax on medical devices makes no sense. It’s time to eliminate it for good

By David Beier

Off-label Discussions
First Opinion

FDA allows off-label health care economic discussions. Is there more to come?

By John Osborn and Seth Ray

Artificial intelligence FDA
Politics

Artificial intelligence is evolving fast. Can the FDA keep up?

By Casey Ross

Documents
The Watchdogs

Surgical device firm demands the retraction of a study paid for by its rival

By Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky

Biotech China
First Opinion

Strong action is needed to preserve the competitiveness of America’s life-science industries

By Joe Kennedy

Organ transplant
In the Lab

A ‘breakthrough in organ preservation’: Study shows keeping livers warm helps preserve them for transplant

By Eric Boodman

Business

Do you want to turn your bathroom into a medical lab?

By Scott Kirsner — Boston Globe

BG Joint Replacement
Health

Boomers line up for joint replacements, and their expectations are high

By Robert Weisman — Boston Globe

Data
In the Lab

Experts challenge digital health developers to show value in an often-hyped field

By Andrew Joseph

New Brain Scanner
Health

Worn like a helmet, a new brain scanner aims to make it easier to treat kids with epilepsy

By Megan Thielking

Blackbox medical device
Business

Patients would like their data, please. Will the medical device industry listen?

By Max Blau

Dollars
Politics

Congress delays medical device tax for two years

By Erin Mershon

MGH Marijuana test
In the Lab

Breathalyzers and brain caps: Researchers race to devise a roadside test for driving while high

By Eric Boodman

Optune
Health

Creating electric fields in the brain buys glioblastoma patients extra months of life

By Sharon Begley

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