Medical Devices/Apparatus

SmileDirectClub Inc.’s finance chief is cutting costs as the company, whose sales have plunged amid high inflation, aims to turn a profit next year.Demand for the company’s teeth straighteners, which sell for…

Warby Parker Inc. WRBY 3.28% which launched more than a decade ago selling eyewear directly to customers online, sees bricks-and-mortar retail as its biggest growth opportunity. The New…

The second Super Bowl of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday will feature a variety of first-time advertisers, including a slew of financial technology and cryptocurrency players, plus the return of travel ads.The game, which airs Sunday on…

Getting a pair of hearing aids can cost up to $5,000. The White House says they should be as little as a few hundred dollars. And it says it has a plan to make that possible: deregulate the market to increase competition.The White House has…

It’s Friday and you’ve got a scratchy throat and a mild headache. Time to play “Cold? Covid? Or Just Crazy?”—the only game more popular than Wordle. Or you could open up your medicine cabinet and power-on a small white box. Swab your nose…

Some companies are switching to virtual shareholder meetings again as the Omicron variant continues to spread through the U.S. and businesses take precautions to limit infections.Many companies shifted to meeting with their investors…

Document 2774 among the thousands in the bankruptcy case of Philadelphia’s historic Hahnemann University Hospital laid out a curious problem. How should the hospital manage its only patient still implanted with a plutonium-powered…

A hearing-aid disruption is under way, with inexpensive hearing aids heading to drugstores and other retailers sometime next year. But if you’re experiencing hearing loss, doctors and hearing experts say it isn’t wise to just wait for them…

In the race to secure computer chips amid a global shortage, medical device makers say they have found their ace card: their products save lives.While only a tiny fraction of the world’s chips end up in medical equipment compared with cars…

Researchers in California reported Wednesday that they had developed and successfully tested an experimental brain implant that translates brain signals into words on a computer screen.The achievement, described in a paper published in the…