Patient portals have become one of the most powerful tools in modern health care, reshaping how we interact with our health care providers and medical records. Nearly every major health system offers ...

Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.

Using highly-trained standardized patients, students practice history and physical examinations, communication skills and relationship building. Depending on the discipline, our spaces can flex to be ...

As specialty medicines account for an increasing share of the drug pipeline, it makes sense for sponsors to support patients financially, emotionally and logistically.

Increased patient testing and less lab staff to perform manual tasks have created a bottleneck for care Now, automation found in high-volume labs is accessible no matter a lab’s footprint or volume ...

Researchers have known for decades that different brands of lab machines produce different results. The fix is easy — but not ...

If the measure becomes law, it would require a 72-hour waiting period for test lab results relating to malignant cancers or genetic markers to be released as part of patients’ health records. The aim ...