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There’s A New Way To Pay For IVF, But No Guarantee It’ll Pay Off
Future Family will guide you through egg-freezing and IVF, and even pay for the procedures upfront. It’s one of several companies capitalizing on the high cost of — and demand for — fertility treatment. But the financial agreements involved aren’t risk-free.
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Andreessen Horowitz Is Digging Deeper Into Biotech
The Silicon Valley venture capital firm is bringing on biotech executive Jorge Conde to invest $200 million in software and biology startups.
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This Startup Gets People High — In The Name Of Science
Startups like Hound Labs are inventing breathalyzers to answer a complicated question: How high are you, exactly?
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This Startup Wants To Track Your Smartphone — To Improve Your Mental Health
Mindstrong Health wants to mine your smartphone to understand your state of mind. It’s been joined by star neuroscientist Thomas Insel, who left Verily, a much bigger and better-funded rival.
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Celebrities On Instagram Love This Food Test, But Scientists Say It’s Bogus
Lindsay Lohan, Mario Lopez, and other stars endorse a $490 blood test that claims to reveal your food intolerances. Experts say they know of no science to support such a test.
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This Former FDA Chief Is Heading To Silicon Valley To Join Alphabet’s Life Sciences Division
Cardiologist and former FDA commissioner Robert Califf is joining both Verily and Duke University to work on projects using data science to improve health care.
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Your Apple Watch Could Someday Detect This Risky Heart Condition
A new, preliminary study suggests that the Apple Watch could spot a serious medical condition known as atrial fibrillation.
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A Scientist Is Leaving Google For A Mental Health Startup
Less than a year and a half after Alphabet’s life sciences division hired Thomas Insel to lead a mental-health technology team, he is leaving to work on his own startup.
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Lyme Patients Are Bending The Old Rules Of Scientific Research, To The Dismay Of Some Scientists
Feeling neglected by traditional scientific research, thousands of chronic Lyme disease patients are turning to the internet to conduct a study of their own. Critics worry their data won’t be useful.
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Can A Simple Blood Test Really Spot Cancer Early? Don’t Bet On It Yet, Scientists Say.
Well-funded startups like Freenome and Grail say they’re making tests that spot cancer before you know you have it. They have divulged little about the science behind their vision — and many scientists are skeptical.
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Here’s How Accurate The Fitbit Alta HR Actually Is
We pitted Fitbit’s new ultra-slim wristband against a chest strap to see just how accurately it could measure beats per minute.
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A Pharma Company Is Sponsoring An iPhone App To Fight The Opioid Crisis It Helped Start
Purdue Pharma’s blockbuster painkiller, OxyContin, is widely blamed for setting off the opioid epidemic. Now the company is starting an iPhone and Apple Watch study that aims to get patients off their medications.
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We Tried The Fitbit Alta HR, An Ultra-Thin Heart Rate Tracker
The stylish fitness wearable gets an upgrade, and the app gets new sleep-tracking features.
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This Biotech CEO Doesn’t Have A PhD, But He Did Leave School Under A Cloud
Gabriel Otte has been identified on many websites, including his own company’s, as having a PhD. But he does not. The CEO of Freenome, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, left a PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania, where a professor raised questions about some of his research, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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This Health Startup Says Its Tech Can Reverse Diabetes
The co-founder of Trulia has a new startup, Virta Health, that wants to help type 2 diabetes patients bring their diet and weight under control — and therefore their disease — without surgery or medications.
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How Anti-Science Forces Thrive On Facebook
Welcome to the corner of the internet that’s hell-bent on convincing you that GMOs are poisonous, vaccines cause autism, and climate change is a government-sponsored hoax. The message is traveling far and wide.
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Fitbit’s Thinnest Tracker Will Now Track Your Heart Rate, Too
With the slim, fitness-focused Alta HR, and new sleep features on its app, Fitbit is trying to stay ahead of the game.
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This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer In Its Early Days
Freenome is raising $65 million to develop a test that could detect that you have cancer, even if you don’t know it yet, from a small blood sample.
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Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Are Funding Scientists As Part Of Their Plan To To Tackle Disease
In its quest to “cure, prevent, or manage all diseases,” the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is committing more than $50 million to fund nearly 50 researchers.
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The Breathalyzer Device On "Shark Tank" Allegedly Ran False Ads
Breathometer, which charmed Shark Tank investors with a gadget that could detect your alcohol levels from your breath, just settled federal charges that its claims lacked scientific evidence. It must issue refunds.
