Candace Stuart

As more Americans approach their twilight years, a new, less invasive procedure for repairing faulty heart valves, called TAVR, offers patients a new lease on life. The only challenge is high costs limit its profitability.

Widely regarded as the father of Lipitor, Roger Newton is back at the helm of life-sciences company Esperion Therapeutics. His Mission: develop new drugs to stave off heart attacks and strokes.

Metro Detroit might still be stuck in the industrial age, but the region has the potential to leapfrog the information age that blossomed along the coasts into the nano age.

Michigan’s universities are developing innovative new methods to detect and treat disease with inventions that are migrating from the laboratory to the marketplace.