Health Care

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG says it's cutting 12,000 jobs worldwide as it seeks to reduce costs.

Australian Army veteran Wolfgang Neszpor was stunned when he heard his recently repaired shoulder squeak.

The $69 billion mega-merger was finalized on Wednesday.

CVS expects the deal to save as much as $750 million over the course of two years.

Dubbed “Amazon Comprehend Medical,” the software can automatically pull relevant information from medical notes, audio transcripts and patient records.

The health insurer also reiterated its adjusted earnings forecast of about $14.40 per share for the year 2018.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration's device center was adamant: the U.S. would never cut corners to speed up product approvals.

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When Polly Varnado's 9-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, it didn't take long for the family to hear about insulin pumps.

Dr. Jeffrey Shuren was adamant: The United States would never cut corners to fast-track the approval of medical devices.

Roughly 3,000 medical devices enter the U.S. market every year through a system that generally requires little or no patient testing to verify safety and effectiveness.

Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life.

To all the world, it looked like breast implants were safe.

For nearly two decades, health advocates have pushed to standardize the way medical devices are tracked and studied.

US health officials say they plan to overhaul the nation's decades-old system for approving most medical devices, which experts have long criticized for failing to catch problems with risky implants and medical instruments.

To all the world, it looked like breast implants were safe.

Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life.

Few medical devices hold as much potential for explosive growth as spinal-cord stimulators , especially in the United States, where they are being pushed as the answer to the country's opioid epidemic.