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The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

Function Health, a startup that offers lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, scored nearly $300 million in series B funding, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion. Redpoint Ventures ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

Consumers want functional food. If nothing else is certain, that is. In many areas, from coffee to bread to plant-based protein to non-alcoholic drinks, consumers want food that can provide functional ...

Three years ago, the FDA found so many violations at a Nephron Pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility that the U.S. regulator admitted in a warning letter the issues were so numerous they couldn’t all ...

Despite multiple warnings from the Food and Drug Administration about its manufacturing processes, Nephron Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest employers in Lexington, has continued to face federal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite multiple warnings from the Food and Drug Administration about its manufacturing processes, Nephron Pharmaceuticals, one of ...