Metal ions and materials with nanoscale patterns can kill even antibiotic-resistant pathogens. 

This research found that coating hospital surfaces with copper helped battle microbes and the infections they spread.

Coating hospital surfaces, surgical equipment, patient implants, and water-delivery systems with nanoscale patterns and particles could curb the rise of hospital-acquired infections.

The genomic entrepreneur has struck a deal with a South African health insurer to sequence the exomes of its customers.

Cyberspies have broken into the e-mails of a number of publicly traded companies, most of which are in health care and pharmaceuticals.

The $6 billion deal marks yet another massive transaction in the health-care industry.

Despite wearing protective gear, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who helped treat the first US Ebola patient has tested positive for the virus.

IBM’s cognitive computer will be individualizing trial plans for cancer patients at the Mayo Clinic.

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An NIH program will study the promises and pitfalls of sequencing newborns’ genomes.