Healthcare

General Electric will invest $2 billion over the next five years to build software aimed at harnessing, and making sense, of the growing influx of data within the health care industry.

June 12, 2013 10:26am | By Kirsten Korosec

Here's some insight into how companies like GE are taking advantage of 3D-printing technology.

1 | June 6, 2013 5:48am | By Tyler Falk

A $1 vinegar screening can lower cervical cancer death rates, according to a 15-year study with 150,000 women. Globally, it could prevent 73,000 deaths a year.

4 | June 5, 2013 11:06pm | By Janet Fang

3D printing can do more than create weaponry or houses -- it can provide cheap prosthetics to those who need them most.

June 1, 2013 2:19pm | By Charlie Osborne

A federal judge has ordered that a Medicare database must be made public, ending a 33-year-old injunction.

10 | June 1, 2013 12:28pm | By Charlie Osborne

The six-week-old baby from Ohio had a rare condition that caused his airway to collapse.

1 | May 30, 2013 12:04pm | By Janet Fang

What is the reasoning behind taking staff to the best hospitals for treatment while sales continue to fall?

1 | May 29, 2013 5:32am | By Charlie Osborne

TalkSession's Melissa Thompson wants to make signing up for therapy feel like joining a gym.

3 | May 28, 2013 1:39am | By Audrey Quinn

In the last four years, the size of the workforce has barely grown. Blame demographics, say two economists.

45 | May 11, 2013 10:56am | By Joe McKendrick

Tukey has a new boom in health tourism -- moustache transplantation.

1 | May 8, 2013 4:37am | By Charlie Osborne

Patient care may be taking an interesting turn as doctors can now treat you through a mobile robot.

1 | May 7, 2013 5:27am | By Charlie Osborne

What do the stock market and brain trauma treatment have in common? Allow me to explain.

Sponsored | May 6, 2013 5:54am | By Charlie Schick

This July, the NYPD will be releasing invisible, odorless, nontoxic gases to better understand how contaminants will disperse in accidents and attacks.

5 | May 5, 2013 10:46pm | By Janet Fang

The White House sees drug abuse as a public health issue, stressing that "we cannot arrest or incarcerate our way out of the drug problem."

14 | April 27, 2013 11:46am | By Janet Fang

GE took a 10 percent equity stake in Pivotal, an EMC spin-off company that aims to help businesses analyze and understand big data generated by machines and stored in the cloud.

April 24, 2013 1:53pm | By Kirsten Korosec

Silicon Valley vendor takes the big data skills challenge to the university level.

1 | April 22, 2013 6:47pm | By Joe McKendrick

The majority of healthcare assistants in the U.K. want to see tougher regulations in place, according to a survey.

April 11, 2013 6:56am | By Charlie Osborne

Bean plant leaves won't bite bed bugs back, but they do impale the pests though their feet. Artificial leaves could become effective traps.

2 | April 9, 2013 7:25pm | By David Worthington

You can pay $17 for generic Lipitor or you can pay $150, depending on where you shop. Secret shoppers from Consumer Reports checked out 200 pharmacies.

1 | March 28, 2013 8:36pm | By Janet Fang

It would certainly help ease our concerns, and as it turns out, physicians find it often saves them time and money.

1 | March 28, 2013 1:31pm | By Janet Fang