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Watson on laptop

Health Tech By Casey Ross

The sale of Watson Health assets ends a dark chapter for IBM. For its buyer, the opportunity looks brighter

Pharmalot Coming/Going STILL

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

Fall of Watson

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Once billed as a revolution in medicine, IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Alzheimer’s patient groups to protest Medicare plan for Biogen drug; cancer combo treatments are questioned

First Opinion By Chenery Lowe, Liesl Broadbridge and Laynie Dratch

What genetic counselors can teach the CDC about communicating uncertainty

UCLA Hospital ICU virtuous cycle

First Opinion By Cynda Hylton Rushton, Ian Wolfe and Tener Goodwin Veenema

It’s staff, not stuff: Applying crisis standards of care to allocating health care workers

Health Tech By Mohana Ravindranath

For doctors drowning in emails, one health system’s new strategy: pay for replies

Michel Vounatsos

The Pharmalot View By Ed Silverman

If the Biogen CEO were truly ‘courageous,’ he would live with the Medicare decision

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Heart Disease

Health By Eric Boodman

Anxious about your health? You might be at greater risk for heart disease

Clogged Artery

Health By Damian Garde

Raising ‘good’ cholesterol doesn’t protect against heart disease after all, study finds

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Ohio Trump health

Health By Dylan Scott

In Trump’s America, towns in poor health don’t think he will save them

Heart Research

Health By Sharon Begley

Scientist using big data against heart disease wins $75 million award

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan

Health By Shayla Love

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion effort aimed at curing disease

Blood pressure

Health By Leah Samuel

Cancer was slated to overtake heart disease as America’s top killer — but heart deaths have ticked up

Space Walk

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

They’re super healthy, but dying of heart disease. What’s happening to astronauts?

dissolving heart stent

First Opinion By Ron Waksman

Dissolvable stent could be a boon for treating blocked heart arteries

Blood pressure

Gut Check By Sharon Begley

Could this widely used calculator be needlessly driving people to take statins?

Lonely figure

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

Paging Miss Lonelyhearts: Social isolation boosts risk of cardiac disease

Vintage meat and cheese

Health By Sharon Begley

Records found in dusty basement undermine decades of dietary advice

Cath lab

Quick Take By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Disease risk rises for health care workers exposed to radiation on the job

ICU Patient

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

Heart attack patients are getting younger — and more obese

Wine

Quick Take By Sharon Begley

A little alcohol may not be good for you after all

Heart monitor

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

In war on heart disease, Southern states fall far behind

Cholesterol

In the Lab By Elie Dolgin

Jewish grandma’s DNA points to new ways of treating heart disease

Meat

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

How red meat spurs changes in the gut that can raise heart attack risk

Heart disease

Health By Ike Swetlitz

How moments of pure joy can (literally) break your heart

Channing Frye

Health By Dylan Scott

What’s normal for the abnormal? A close look at NBA players’ hearts

Health By Eric Boodman

Some heart trouble with your energy drink?

Human Heart

Lab Chat By Megan Thielking

A protein that helps keep the heart pumping

Novartis Ad

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

All wet: Novartis is slammed for ‘alarmist’ ad for heart failure drug

Health By Megan Thielking

Women who have heart attacks fare much worse than men, study finds

Marathon exercise

First Opinion By Paul D. Thompson

Can you exercise too much?

Winter Weather

Health By Leah Samuel

When temperatures drop, deaths rise