Health

Babies’ poop has way higher levels of microplastic than adults’

By Justine Calma September 23

Most dermatology algorithms don’t have transparent data

By Nicole Wetsman September 23

Elizabeth Holmes ‘was in charge’ of Theranos, says Gen. Mattis

By Elizabeth Lopatto September 22

FDA clears Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine boosters for vulnerable groups

By Nicole Wetsman September 22

FTC resurrects a decade-old rule as a guardrail on the health app explosion

By Nicole Wetsman September 22

The first patient testimony about a Theranos test result: a miscarriage that wasn’t

By Elizabeth Lopatto September 21

A new cybersecurity center wants to protect medical devices against hacks

By Nicole Wetsman September 21

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Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud over her time at Theranos

By Elizabeth Lopatto September 20

iOS 15 will give doctors a window into Apple Health app data

By Nicole Wetsman September 20

How bad were Elizabeth Holmes’ 1AM emails?

Enough for workers to secretly save them

By Elizabeth Lopatto September 17

Digital messages from patients to doctors spiked during the pandemic

By Nicole Wetsman September 17

Why smartwatch-measured blood pressure still isn’t ‘ready for primetime’

By Nicole Wetsman September 16

How do you cross-examine a whistleblower?

Theranos lab assistant-turned-whistleblower Erika Cheung testifies in the Elizabeth Holmes wire fraud trial

By Elizabeth Lopatto September 15

The Holmes trial gets into the Excel nitty-gritty

But will the technical jargon overwhelm the jurors?

By Elizabeth Lopatto September 14

A doctor’s quest for more organ emoji

By Kait Sanchez September 13

FDA has rejected nearly one million flavored e-cigarettes

By Nicole Wetsman September 9

Fraud, or just a failure? Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s trial opening arguments

Who is Elizabeth Holmes, really?

By Elizabeth Lopatto September 8

Apple reportedly wants a Watch with more health tracking and could ship one next year

By Kait Sanchez September 1

Strava’s live location tracking service is now free

By Thomas Ricker August 31

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COVID surge causes liquid oxygen problems for SpaceX, water utilities

By Mary Beth Griggs August 27

Go read the harrowing story of the world’s first CO2 pipeline explosion

By Justine Calma August 26

Google dismantles Health unit in favor of tried-and-tested ‘throw everything at the wall’ strategy

By James Vincent August 24

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The Pfizer vaccine will be officially called Comirnaty, for some reason

By Ian Carlos Campbell August 23

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Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine gets full FDA approval

By Nicole Wetsman August 23

Samsung Pay wallet now lets you store a digital version of a COVID-19 vaccination card

By Kim Lyons August 21

VidCon cancels its 2021 event, says next one will be in June 2022

By Mitchell Clark August 20

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US COVID-19 data has never been good enough

By Nicole Wetsman August 20

The pandemic revealed the health risks of hospital ransomware attacks

By Nicole Wetsman August 19

Smartwatch-induced health anxiety led one woman to run 916 ECGs in a year

By Nicole Wetsman August 19

Jabra’s new true wireless earbuds are designed to help cope with hearing loss

By Jon Porter August 19

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COVID-19 booster shots will be offered to Americans in September, Biden administration says

By Nicole Wetsman August 18

Go read this deep dive on why US public health data systems couldn’t handle COVID-19

By Nicole Wetsman August 16