CRISPR, a gene-editing technology device, was approved Tuesday by a national advisory committee for a study that will examine three types of cancer.

U.S. News & World Report recently released its list of the top children’s hospitals for 2016-2017. Based on clinical data and pediatric specialists, the rankings examined 106 hospitals in 10 major specialties.

As the power of information technology expands, the healthcare system has begun to shrink. Integrated IT systems are allowing providers to communicate across an enterprise like never before.

On top of all the things you can do with your phone, add getting birth control. An article from the New York Times highlights the new apps and websites available to women that make it possible to get prescription contraceptives without going to the doctor.

The Dallas Cowboys football franchise is partnering with the biggest not-for-profit healthcare system in the Lone Star State to build and run a hulking sports medicine and research complex with a footprint stretching out over a 300,000-square-foot campus. 

Students at Binghamton University, State University of New York, have developed an app meant to reduce readmission rates in hospitals with a data-based assembled prediction model, reports News Medical. 

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a mobile app called "Aspirin-Guide" that is able to calculate the cardiovascular disease risk and the bleeding risk scores for patients while helping clinicians decide which patients are appropriate candidates for the use of low dose aspirin.

Integrating military trauma care with traditional hospitals could lead to a quicker and more effective response to car accidents, gunshot wounds and other trauma events, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.