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Are doctors and patients ready for home health monitoring?

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 1, 2017
There's lots of optimism as manufacturers crank out medical devices, but no one knows if the approach will save money.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Mayo Clinic's hometown looks to become the 'Silicon Valley of medicine'

by Marketplace Contributor
Feb 14, 2017
Rochester, Minnesota, has a $6.5 billion 20-year development plan to compete for top talent and spur innovation.
The Mayo Clinic, located in downtown Rochester, Minnesota, is part of an effort to spur innovation and economic development.
Jerry Olson
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Where data and drugs intersect

by Lizzie O'Leary
Nov 13, 2015
Lizzie recorded this conversation onstage at the Fast Company Innovation Festival.
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Keeping medical IV’s safe

by Lauren Silverman
Sep 16, 2015
'The battle is that technology moves a lot faster than the agencies do.'
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How the cost of a drug impacts the placebo effect

by Marketplace Contributor
Mar 3, 2015
A recent study suggests telling patients a drug is expensive enhances the effect.
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We really are living in the (medical) future

by David Brancaccio
Jul 28, 2014
Dr. Goel is trying to do for medicine what Google did for information technology.
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Specialty drugs could fuel health care inflation

by Annie Baxter
Jun 24, 2014
Why health care spending is projected to accelerate in 2015.
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An ancient animal's blood is a modern medical miracle

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jun 17, 2014
The horseshoe crab's blue-colored blood is critical to modern medicine.
Mandy Cheng/AFP via Getty Images
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FTC cracks down on weight-loss products

by Kai Ryssdal
Jan 8, 2014
The Washington Post’s Lydia DePillis explains the deceptive advertising around weight-loss drugs.
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FreedomPop launches free WiFi beta, and "transient electronics"

by Molly Wood
Oct 1, 2012
A new service called FreedomPop hopes to go up against AT&T and Verizon, and a new kind of dissolve-able circuit that could change the field of medicine.
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