Healthcare

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

44 | 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

Physicians will soon have a new tool to fight cancer: big data.

March 27, 2013 1:08pm | By Tyler Falk

Approaching its one-year anniversary, the public/private partnership is nurturing 20-25 projects for advanced Internet applications and reframing the national conversation on broadband.

1 | March 27, 2013 3:00am | By Mari Silbey

Are India's entrepreneurial doctors creating models, or at least inspiration, for India's future education start-ups?

2 | March 26, 2013 12:05pm | By Reena Jana

The Gates Foundation is awarding grants for the next generation of condoms that preserve (or enhance) pleasure so more people will use them.

4 | March 24, 2013 10:31pm | By Janet Fang

Accenture report says more outsiders and fewer insiders are doing the jobs of today's organizations. And these outsiders will increasingly be contracted through cloud-based services.

5 | March 22, 2013 10:37am | By Joe McKendrick

The timeframe of the Obama administration's experiments with controlling healthcare costs drew disbelief from congressional lawmakers concerned about higher costs.

2 | March 21, 2013 1:05pm | By Janet Fang

If you had control over biomedical research and how your data was used, would you be more inclined to participate in medical trials?

March 15, 2013 9:23am | By Charlie Osborne

Hint: look south.

7 | March 14, 2013 1:44pm | By Tyler Falk