Medical devices

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA proposes changes to key approval pathway for medical devices, five years after promising

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: As competition looms, Insulet sues a rival for allegedly stealing trade secrets on diabetes tech

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA panel votes against high blood pressure device from Medtronic, but lends support to ReCor Medical’s

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA greenlights medical device to combat bladder issues

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA advisory panel to debate contentious data on Medtronic’s high blood pressure device

Special Report Bob Herman, J. Emory Parker, Adam Feuerstein, Lizzy Lawrence, and Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year as inflation pinched workers, analysis shows

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: The latest recall of Philips ventilators reveals one death, two injuries

Health Mohana Ravindranath and Lizzy Lawrence

Kim Kardashian sparks debate on the benefits of full-body MRI scans

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: For brain-computer interfaces, the commercial hurdles may be bigger than scientific ones

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Flow Neuroscience shows promising results in trial of brain-stimulation headset for depression

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: To detect breast cancer sooner, an MIT professor designs an ultrasound bra

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medical device maker Teleflex to acquire urology company Palette Life Sciences for $600 million

Exclusive Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Truvian presents data for its desktop blood-testing device in a field still in Theranos’s shadow

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: To get better heart data from wearables, researchers train AI to separate the signal from the noise

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: As digital health tech proliferates, a new institute aims to cut through hype

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Hearing aids may slow mental decline in those at higher risk of dementia, study finds

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Nearly 8,000 blood tests recalled over risk of missed heart attack diagnosis

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Dexcom CEO on strategy for bringing continuous glucose monitoring to type 2 diabetes patients

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medicare’s new proposal to cover medical devices draws a mixed reaction

The Obesity Revolution Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: With Wegovy and Ozempic’s success, can device makers keep up in the race to treat obesity?

Health tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Does DIY still have a place in diabetes care? 

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: CMS proposes new pathway for reimbursing breakthrough devices

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Federal advisory group rejects proposal to make medical device tracking easier

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA’s letter to medical device maker iRhythm is a warning for the industry

Health Kerry Dooley Young

For many who use power wheelchairs, CMS decision just made seat elevation much less expensive

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde, Meg Tirrell, and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: Fake medical devices, real cancer drugs, & curious Ozempic effects

Special Report Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Lured by a bigger payday, a medical device maker sold fake plastic parts. Many were implanted in chronic pain patients

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Neuralink can now study its brain implant in humans, but it’s still catching up to its peers

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Omada tackles obesity drugs, Boston Scientific nixes deal, and Microsoft health exec on GPT