Financial analysts are predicting Anthem, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, will be following other national companies in leaving the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges in 2018.

Manipulation of codes by both insurers and providers to shift reimbursements in their favor is one reason why the American healthcare system struggles to control costs, according to a new book excerpted in New York Times Magazine.

Playing Tetris and Candy Crush may be more useful than for just passing the time. A study, published in Molecular Psychiatry, found playing these games after a traumatic event could block the intrusive memories of the event and possibly reduce the rates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

A cognitive neuroscientist has developed a supercomputer, trained with machine learning, to diagnose depression with 75 percent accuracy.

A study published in eLife examined the effectiveness in testing blood collected by flies for traces of unknown pathogens, which is improving current predictive methods in global outbreaks. 

A study spanning generations found that birth control pills may protect women against more than just unplanned pregnancies. They may decrease cancer rates as well. 

Patient monitoring is starting even before the patient arrives, with Novii, mothers can sit, walk and even dance their way through labor while fetal heart rate is monitored wirelessly.

Lab-on-a-chip technology is advancing pathogen detection in individual samples, without the need for complex bulky equipment. Developed by Natalia Sandetskaya and colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy & Immunology in Leipzig, Germany, the prototype lab-on-a-chip automates the detection process within a single device.