Medical devices

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Boston Scientific to buy vascular device maker for $1.16 billion

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Former medical device CEO who sold fake plastic parts sentenced to 6 years in prison

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medical device trials still don’t enroll enough women, study finds

Special Report Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: How a device maker inundated pain patients with unwanted batteries and surprise bills

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: 5 takeaways from STAT’s look at unwanted supplies and surprise bills from device maker Zynex Medical

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Becton Dickinson to buy Edwards patient monitoring unit for $4.2 billion

Politics Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Clinical lab trade group sues FDA over plan to regulate lab-developed tests

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

To detect risk of stroke, tiny probe acts ‘like a microscope’ inside brain’s blood vessels

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Abbott’s dissolvable stent, which failed heart disease patients, may help vascular patients

Politics Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: The White House hikes tariffs on Chinese medical products

First Opinion Nancy Lu, Sumita Strander, and Francis X. Shen

Health care needs a new profession: neuroimaging counseling

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Software glitch caused Tandem insulin pumps to prematurely shut down, FDA warns

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Akili to lay off 46% of its staff, explore strategic options amid sluggish sales

Politics Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA finalizes plan to regulate some lab-developed tests

Health tech Associated Press

STAT Plus: Philips will pay $1.1 billion to resolve U.S. lawsuits over breathing machines that expel debris

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medicare official says breakthrough device reimbursement rule coming in early summer

Health tech Timmy Broderick

STAT Plus: The next frontier in data privacy? Your brain

Health tech Associated Press

STAT Plus: Philips, maker of millions of defective sleep apnea machines, ordered to overhaul manufacturing

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence and Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: Device made by company J&J is buying for $13 billion clears hurdle in independent study

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: In first big randomized trial, Abiomed’s heart pump reduced deaths in heart attack patients

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Johnson & Johnson to buy Shockwave Medical for $13.1 billion

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA approves TriClip for tricuspid heart valve disease, pitting Abbott against Edwards

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA clears digital stethoscope company’s AI algorithm for heart failure

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: This AI company scans penis pictures for STIs. Its unproven tech is in an FDA gray zone

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Payments by drug and device makers to doctors remain widespread, but also vary considerably

Opinions+ Kyle H. Sheetz and Robert M. Wachter

STAT Plus: Medical devices makers are trying to take a page from Uber’s playbook

Health tech Katie Palmer and Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Digital tools for diabetes management did not deliver benefits that justify cost, new report finds

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: EPA restricts cancer-causing chemical used to sterilize medical devices

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Researchers create talking throat patch for people with voice disorders