Medical devices

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

Health tech Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: U.K. researchers warn about biases in medical devices, health care algorithms

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Former medical device CEO who sold dummy, plastic parts convicted of fraud

Health tech Katie Palmer and Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor

Exclusive Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medical device lobby says it’s tired of waiting on Medicare to cover breakthrough devices

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA warns medical device makers about rise in fabricated data

Letters to the editor Torie Bosch

STAT readers on what human health care can learn from veterinary medicine and more

Health Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: American Medical Association’s digital advisors table RPM coding reform proposal, again

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA advisory panel votes in favor of Abbott’s new heart device

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Health care developers are impressed by Apple Vision Pro, but they aren’t diving head first

First Opinion Kushal T. Kadakia, Joseph S. Ross, and Vinay K. Rathi

STAT Plus: The Philips CPAP nightmare exposes shortcomings in medical device regulation

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medical devices with screens aren’t accessible to the blind. Congress has a chance to change that

Health Usha Lee McFarling

FDA urged to move faster to fix pulse oximeters for darker-skinned patients

Exclusive Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: AI therapy and ICU training: A first look at health apps for Apple Vision Pro

Health Annalisa Merelli

Promising red-light myopia treatment for children is raising safety concerns among experts

Associated Press

Philips to stop selling sleep apnea machines in U.S. under tentative agreement with FDA, DOJ

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Cognito raises $35 million for Alzheimer’s treatment device, touts benefits compared to drugs

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA OKs — but doesn’t require — a non-cancer-causing chemical for sterilizing devices

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: The FDA’s diagnostics chief, who led through Covid, has retired

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA clears AI skin cancer detector for primary care doctors to use