UPMC posts $73 million operating income in 3rd quarter
Buoyed up by its ever-growing roster of area hospital affiliates, UPMC posted an overall operating income of $73 million in the three months ending on March 31, according to third quarter financial...
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NFL fears loss of popularity akin to boxing's decline because of safety issues
Green Bay Packers President Mark Murphy — who already is on record as saying player concussions are the biggest challenge facing football — says the National Football League must address the issue or...
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Texas Health Resources and First Choice ER operator Adeptus Health join forces
Texas Health Resources has formed a joint venture with Lewisville-based Adeptus Health (NYSE: ADPT) in which 27 freestanding First Choice Emergency Rooms in North Texas and its First Texas Hospital in...
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New 110,000 SF spec warehouse breaks ground near Florida Mall
Shovels have hit the dirt on another big spec warehouse in the Orlando area, this time near The Florida Mall. Jackson, Miss.-based EastGroup Properties Inc. (NYSE: EGP) started construction on its...
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St. Luke's adds Wichita nephrologist as associate medical director
Wichita nephrologist Dr. Lisa Weber has been named associate medical director of the kidney transplant program at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City. In that role, she will help grow the organization’s...
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Another Cambia Health startup closes
Cambia Health Solutions has closed another in-house startup, one that sought to help doctors diagnose mysterious symptoms. Enigma, originally named Muse, used a computer-aided intervention to take aim...
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Vancouver biotech company raises $4.3M
CytoDyn, which is developing an HIV drug, has completed a capital raise of $4.3 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Vancouver-based biotech company...
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UW, Chinese genomics group forge new partnership to advance biomedical research
The University of Washington School of Medicine and Chinese genomics group BGI have agreed to develop a joint institute to advance biomedical research. In addition, the Seattle mayor’s office signed an...
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UTSA names interim vice president for research as part of leadership shuffle
University of Texas at San Antonio President Ricardo Romo has named Bernard Arulanandam interim vice president for research for the institution. He will assume the new role on June 1, filling a void...
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Kaiser Permanente Hawaii picks two executives to run new Maui Health System
Two executives have been selected to lead Maui Health System, the new company run by Kaiser Permanente Hawaii that assumes management of the Maui state hospitals this summer. MHS, a Kaiser Foundation...
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HBJ announces winners of inaugural Women Who Mean Business awards
The Houston Business Journal held its inaugural Women Who Mean Business awards event on May 11 at the Hilton Americas-Houston Hotel, and around 400 businesspeople joined the celebration. Forty...
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Exclusive: St. David’s HealthCare to buy Forest Park hospital in Austin for...
St. David’s HealthCare will buy Forest Park Medical Center’s yet-to-open Austin hospital for an amount equal to $115 million. The Dallas-based company that owns the hospital property filed for Chapter...
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Is the Internet of Things just a bunch of hype?
At the Internet of Things conference, where I've been this week, market enthusiasm is high. Proponents foresee a thousand potentially connected in each home, and a million outside the home in each...
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1,100 undergrads die by suicide each year. Washington can help, UW says
More than 1,000 undergraduate students die by suicide each year. Washington state can help decrease that number, according to a new effort led by the University of Washington. Seattle’s largest school...
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Concure, Swedish team up for new breast cancer treatment
Mercer Island startup Concure Oncology has introduced a new procedure for treating early-stage breast cancer, with the first U.S. patient receiving the procedure last week at the Swedish Cancer...
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Health care a top target for data breaches
No company or industry is safe from the rise of data breaches and other cybersecurity problems. In the sixth annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data by the Ponemon Institute...
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Healthcare a top target for data breaches
No company or industry is safe from the rise of data breaches and other cybersecurity problems. In the sixth annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data by the Ponemon Institute...
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison gives $200M to USC for cancer research
Oracle founder Larry Ellison has donated $200 million to fund a new center at the University of Southern California that will combine interdisciplinary research with the holistic prevention and...
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Aurora Health Care's Sheboygan project could be back on track after settlement
Aurora Health Care’s plans for an $80 million-plus facility in Sheboygan, which were on hold due to litigation by project opponents, is likely to be revived after a legal settlement. The Sheboygan Area...
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Colorado Dems, GOP vow to re-run failed road-funding bills next year
With two years of failed legislative efforts to address road funding in their rear-view mirror, leaders of the Colorado Legislature from both parties offered no alternatives Thursday — the day after...
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