Medical devices

STAT covers the development, regulation and use of medical devices. Topics include the safety of medical devices, the challenges of bringing new devices to market and the role of medical devices in the healthcare system.

Stories on this page range from brain-computer interfaces to new devices for high blood pressure. There are reports on new diabetes tech, ventilator recalls, full-body MRI scans, brain stimulation headsets for depression and an ultrasound bra for breast cancer detection.

From virtual reality and artificial intelligence to CPAP machines and pulse oximeters, STAT keeps you up-to-date on the latest in medical device technology.

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STAT Plus: Hospital at Home: Medicare report shows how the experiment is going

STAT Plus: ResMed CEO on how wearables, GLP-1s will impact sleep apnea device sales

STAT Plus: FDA misses target date for releasing recommendations to make pulse oximeters more equitable

STAT Plus: FDA’s new head of device safety held senior role at company troubled by safety warnings

STAT Plus: FDA designates devices for heart surgery, smart knee implant as ‘breakthroughs’

STAT Plus: Most cardiovascular devices with serious safety recalls aren’t tested in patients

STAT Plus: A ‘tie-breaker’ study of Abbott’s heart clip brings more questions than answers

Medicare’s new transitional coverage of emerging technologies program doesn’t go far enough

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Glucose monitors, mpox vaccine inequity and effects of LGBTQ+ restrictions

STAT Plus: AI app claiming to diagnose STIs from penis pictures shut down after FTC scrutiny

STAT Plus: Medicare finalizes reimbursement rule for breakthrough medical devices

STAT Plus: Jeff Shuren stabilized the FDA’s medical devices center, winning over industry but not all patients

STAT Plus: Robotic aid helped improve balance, gait in children with cerebral palsy

STAT Plus: Jeff Shuren, medical devices head at FDA, to leave the agency

Fixing the reimbursement and coverage divide between ‘breakthrough’ drugs and medical devices

STAT Plus: House panel passes bills to expand Medicare obesity drug coverage, cancer screening

STAT Plus: Experts split on whether Eli Lilly’s Zepbound will hamper CPAP sales

STAT Plus: Q&A: How Kaiser Permanente tracks and weeds out risky medical devices

STAT Plus: Boston Scientific to buy vascular device maker for $1.16 billion

STAT Plus: Former medical device CEO who sold fake plastic parts sentenced to 6 years in prison

STAT Plus: Medical device trials still don’t enroll enough women, study finds

STAT Plus: How a device maker inundated pain patients with unwanted batteries and surprise bills

STAT Plus: 5 takeaways from STAT’s look at unwanted supplies and surprise bills from device maker Zynex Medical

STAT Plus: Becton Dickinson to buy Edwards patient monitoring unit for $4.2 billion

STAT Plus: Clinical lab trade group sues FDA over plan to regulate lab-developed tests

To detect risk of stroke, tiny probe acts ‘like a microscope’ inside brain’s blood vessels

STAT Plus: Abbott’s dissolvable stent, which failed heart disease patients, may help vascular patients

STAT Plus: The White House hikes tariffs on Chinese medical products

Health care needs a new profession: neuroimaging counseling