Health tech

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: AI app claiming to diagnose STIs from penis pictures shut down after FTC scrutiny

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Big Health gets FDA nod for its digital therapy for insomnia

Newsletters Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Talkspace earnings, a framework for detecting AI hallucination, and trends in telehealth abortions

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medicare finalizes reimbursement rule for breakthrough medical devices

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: FDA’s digital health advisory committee takes shape, and a critique of cost-effectiveness studies

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Jeff Shuren stabilized the FDA’s medical devices center, winning over industry but not all patients

Health tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Weight loss drugs without a prescription? Study warns it’s a ‘very risky business’

Health tech Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: 23andMe board rejects co-founder Anne Wojcicki’s offer to take company private

Health tech Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki files proposal to take company private

Health tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Health care’s ‘Pepsi challenge’: Doctors’ offices are testing AI tools in head-to-head pilots

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Dental AI startup raises $30 million, including from Mark Zuckerberg’s dad

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Disruptions loom for telehealth providers and patients as Congress inches closer to deadline

First Opinion Erez Kaminski

STAT Plus: Medtech compliance — not regulation — is stifling innovation

Politics Associated Press

STAT Plus: A neurological disorder stole her voice. Jennifer Wexton takes it back on the House floor

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Six questions about Medicare’s proposed plan to cover digital therapeutics

Health tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Federal regulation of health data and AI expected to get a boost after HHS revamp

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Robotic aid helped improve balance, gait in children with cerebral palsy

Exclusive Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Jeff Shuren, medical devices head at FDA, to leave the agency

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Epic, Abridge, and Mayo Clinic to leverage AI to ease nursing workflow

Exclusive Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: Wastewater surveillance group funded by Google founder, Bloomberg sheds dozens of testing sites

Health tech Katie Palmer, Brittany Trang, and Casey Ross

STAT Plus: Microsoft global outage forces health systems to cancel appointments, delay procedures

Exclusive Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Broad Institute, facing end of Microsoft cloud contract, shuffles data science leadership

Exclusive Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Startup Q Bio raises $27 million to build its own full-body scanner

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Data privacy startup raises $30 million, to ease health care providers’ regulatory burden

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Why clinical trials for digital therapeutics are getting more rigorous

Exclusive Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: A cancer care startup is making a new bet with payers and providers: only pay if it works

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Medicare proposes to cover some digital therapies in a breakthrough for health tech firms

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: AI leads the way as health tech funding inches toward a post-pandemic stability

Exclusive Brittany Trang and Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Top Biden administration officials withdraw from Coalition for Health AI