• Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin apologized after failing to notify the chain of command when he was secretly admitted to a hospital in December.

  • The bipartisan federal tax bill would be a boon for Boston’s biotech industry.

  • Quest Diagnostics said Q4 2023 net income surged 90% as increased medical testing for miscellaneous conditions more than offset a near halt of COVID-19 testing activity.
  • Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases and new research may finally explain why.

  • A longform article documented 23andMe’s fall from a $6 billion valuation to the Nasdaq threatening to delist its sub-$1 stock.