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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

All Coverage

Health Tech By Casey Ross

5 names to know at Amazon: the key players behind its health care push

headquarters of Verily Life Sciences

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

5 names to know at Verily: Players to watch at Alphabet’s life sciences unit

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Merriam Webster's Science - large

In the Lab By Rebecca Robbins

The march of science and biotech, told through the history of language

Tool box

In the Lab By Rebecca Robbins

The best and worst analogies for CRISPR, ranked

Red Cross At Work

Health By Leah Samuel

6 medical innovations that moved from the battlefield to mainstream medicine

Syphilis - public service poster

Health By Leah Samuel

Why do we call it that? Backstories of seven disease names

STAT List: Pharma Lobbying

Politics By Charles Piller

Who gets all that biopharma lobbying money?

STAT List: Medicine

Health By Rebecca Robbins

The places in America where seniors are most — and least — likely to take their blood pressure meds

Group A Strep

Health By Catherine Caruso

Flesh-eating bacteria: 5 things to know after a hiker’s almost-fatal infection

Book list 2017 - KISS THE BOOK

Don't Miss By Sarah Mupo

The 35 best health and science books to read this summer

Drone in Flight

Health By Max Blau

Condom drops and airborne meds: 6 ways drones could change health care

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Health By Bob Tedeschi

Make a wish: The top 5 requests from children and adults facing the end of life

Hash Browns

Health By Megan Thielking

Funky Froot Loops and golf balls in hash browns: the 8 weirdest food recalls in America

Biotech By Meghana Keshavan

5 weird things medical researchers collect in the name of science

Plague doctor

Health By Leah Samuel

5 ‘health care’ jobs that are thankfully obsolete

Paper family

Biotech By Damian Garde

When biotech is a family business

Cold sneeze

Health By Leah Samuel

A cure for the common cold and 4 other medical predictions that haven’t (yet) come true

Patrick Soon-Shiong

Politics By Meghana Keshavan, Rebecca Robbins and Damian Garde

Meet Trump’s would-be health czar: A billionaire with a brash vision, a bodyguard — and a divisive record

Breastfeeding

Politics By Julie Appleby — Kaiser Health News and Mary Agnes Carey — Kaiser Health News

Autism therapy, new mom support: 6 surprising things that Obamacare repeal could take away

Donahue 1985

Health By Leah Samuel

4 big medical hoaxes that fooled (almost) everybody

Graeco-Roman surgical instruments.

Health By Leah Samuel

7 of the most gruesome medical devices in history

Health By Leah Samuel

Four horrifying medical procedures we’re glad history forgot