Skip to content

Sections
- Health
- Pharma
- Biotech
- Hospitals
- Politics
- In the Lab
- First Opinion
- Gut Check
- The Watchdogs
Topics
- Cancer
- Concussions
- CRISPR
- Drug Pricing
- End of Life
- Health Disparities
- Immigration
- Opioids
- Trump
- Women’s Health
- Zika
Multimedia
Popular
STAT Plus

Job Board
About Us

Newsletters
My Account
- Settings
- Log Out

Newsletters
My Account
- Settings
- Log Out

Medical Devices

Business

With ads, rare for a medical device maker, Boston Scientific shifts gears

By Robert Weisman

Health

4 health wearables trying to break through hospital walls

advertisement

First Opinion

It’s time to get serious about the safety of medical devices

By Diana Alame

advertisement

Business

Signs of the booming business of sleep: gadgets, didgeridoos, and free coffee

By Rebecca Robbins

In the Lab

When might patients use their brains to restore movement? ‘We all want the answer to be now’

By Bob Tedeschi

Politics

Why are gun groups up in arms over a hearing aid bill?

By Victoria McGrane

Biotech

Cardiologists embrace 3-D printing to ‘test drive’ high-risk heart procedures

advertisement

Business

‘The tailwind is coming’: 5 forces shaping biopharma investment in China

By Rebecca Robbins

advertisement

Business

This company hopes to make opioid addiction treatment for home use

Health

As orthopedic procedures rise, surgeons debate the meaning of necessity

Business

Patients with ‘suicide headaches’ just got a new option. Will it matter?

By Rebecca Robbins

Health

How Apple, Google, and other tech titans aim to shake up the way we treat disease

By Meghana Keshavan

Biotech

Health info via tattoo and other visions: Thiel’s Breakout Labs adds new startups

By Meghana Keshavan

Pharma

The $22.5 billion question: Since 2010, who paid the biggest fines in health care?

By Natalia Bronshtein

Biotech

Five ways Trump’s proposed budget could hurt — and help — biopharma

By Rebecca Robbins

First Opinion

Scott Gottlieb’s fervor for deregulation could harm patients

By Renée M. Landers

In the Lab

US scientists accuse Turkish researcher of spiriting away their idea — and claiming it as her own

By Andrew Joseph

Health

Welcome to my colon: A tech pioneer turns to virtual reality to guide his own surgery

By Usha Lee McFarling

Sharp vision: New glasses help the legally blind see

By Associated Press

Business

Q&A: Why a Talking Heads guitarist is betting on crowdfunding for medical companies

By Rebecca Robbins

Hospitals

A millionaire’s mission: Stop hospitals from killing their patients by medical error

By Usha Lee McFarling

Science Happens!

Episode 11: Building tomorrow’s MRI — faster, smaller, and cheaper

Business

New philanthropic venture fund launches to invest in companies tackling type 1 diabetes

By Rebecca Robbins

First Opinion

If Obamacare is dismantled, keep the Sunshine Act to illuminate physician conflict of interest

By James Rickert

Politics

One of Tom Price’s top donors allegedly leaned on employees to support a PAC

By Marisa Taylor and Christina Jewett — Kaiser Health News

Hospitals

FDA warns hospitals about medical cart battery fires

By Sheila Kaplan

First Opinion

Congress needs to turn its attention to medical device safety

By Laura Henze Russell

In the Lab

First Look: How fiddling with a mouse’s ability to smell bananas could advance neuroscience

By Rebecca Robbins

Business

Customers flocked to this futuristic medical tricorder. Now they’re crying foul

By Rebecca Robbins

Sign up for our biotech newsletter, The Readout

A guide to what’s new in biotech — delivered straight to your inbox every weekday morning.

Sign up for our morning rounds newsletter

Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine

About Us
Contact Us
The STAT Team
Work at STAT
Job Board
Advertise

Privacy
Comment Policy
Terms

© 2017 STAT