Browsing: Healthcare Innovation

Maintaining a healthy weight may depend not only on food choices but also on meal timing. A study published in…

First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech…

When people gain weight during life can play a major role in their health decades later. A large study of…

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday rejected — again — an experimental treatment for advanced skin cancer developed by…

Researchers at the University of Chicago have uncovered a surprising new role for zeaxanthin, a plant-based compound best known for…

With thousands of illegal e-cigarettes for sale in the U.S., both the Trump and Biden administrations have vowed to crack…

How does the brain get rid of waste? It relies on a specialized drainage network known as the lymphatic system.…

Zac Jiwa, a federal Medicare official, delivered a eulogy of sorts at a Thursday Medicare event highlighting the successes of…

Human DNA is built from long sequences of three-letter units made up of four nucleotides. These units, known as codons,…

  What Are Health Information Exchanges? According to the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, HIEs allow “doctors, nurses, public health…