Pennsylvania hospitals add 3,500 jobs over prior year
Hospital jobs in Pennsylvania were up 3,500 over the prior year, to 272,000 in April 2016, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry. Over the past month, hospital...
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Oregon College of Oriental Medicine lands a new boss
The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine has a new president. Deborah Howe has assumed the helm of the institution, which specializes in teaching acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Howe actually started...
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Colon cancer expert recommended to lead UH Cancer Center
A researcher and colon cancer expert who is the chief medical officer for cancer at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City has been recommended to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to...
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ST. LOUIS: She's disrupting a vital segment of patient care
ST. LOUIS — A young Lisa Vallino could often be found treating her brothers with a toy first-aid kit. Caring for others was in her blood. “I always knew I wanted to be a nurse,” Vallino said. Today,...
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HCA North Texas will buy Forest Park’s flagship Dallas hospital for $135M
Irving-based HCA North Texas, one of the region’s largest health care providers, has agreed to buy Forest Park Medical Center in Dallas for $135 million in a deal set to close in mid to late June....
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Ed Goldman: Keeping a food journal takes a lot of time and encourages lying
I was journaling before it became a verb. While I’ve never kept a formal diary, writing a mainly personal column for many years has pretty much fulfilled the same function for me that journaling does...
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Medtronic garden to honor organ donors
Sometimes the end goal of medical device companies — why they do what they do — can be lost during day-to-day activities. But, Medtronic Spinal is taking steps to remedy that. The company’s SpinalGraft...
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Tracking the flow of big pharma dollars in Birmingham: Where the top payments...
Private sector funding to the medical and research fields has been on the rise in Birmingham in recent years. According to a Birmingham Business Journal analysis of federal data, general payments to...
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Catholic Health reports $27M surplus for 2015
With total revenue topping $1.1 billion for 2015, Catholic Health has reported gains of just over $27 million and income from operations of $12.3 million for the calendar year ended Dec. 31, 2015. It's...
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Blue Cross incurs $280M loss on ACA customers; files for 19% premium hike
One of the big goals of the Affordable Care Act was to divert patients away from unnecessary costly emergency room visits to primary and urgent care. So far in North Carolina, that hasn’t happened. In...
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Jefferson creates medical cannabis education & research center
Thomas Jefferson University has created the Center for Medical Cannabis Education & Research. The Center City health sciences university said it is the first such institution to establish a center...
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EXCLUSIVE: New CEO of Greater Cincinnati firm has 400-mile commute
Connie Hallquist has a long commute to her new job as CEO of DNA Diagnostics Center in Fairfield. The company’s headquarters is about a 400-mile flight from her home in Arlington, Va. She stays in...
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State's largest insurer seeks hike in premiums for ACA plans
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina announced Tuesday it is seeking an average premium increase of nearly 20 percent on its plans offered under the Affordable Care Act. The Chapel Hill-based...
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Nashville physician, lab will pay $9.35 million to settle fraud suit
A Nashville physician and former owner of a drug testing laboratory has, along with that lab's successor, agreed to pay $9.35 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations, U.S. Attorney David Rivera...
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Merck & Co. venture arm backs superbug fighter OpGen in $10.3 million funding...
OpGen Inc. (NASDAQ: OPGN) raised $10.4 million in a recent funding round led by the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, the venture capital arm of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. The Gaithersburg...
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Icahn praises CEO of drug company Allergan after buying a stake
Allergan and Pfizer may have failed to ink a deal, but the scenario was serendipitous for billionaire Carl Icahn. The New York investor not only bought a stake in drug company Allergan but proclaimed...
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Kindred closing Louisville facility, cutting 150 jobs
Kindred Healthcare Inc. plans to close its nursing and rehabilitation center near Bashford Manor shopping center, resulting in more than 150 job losses and more than 100 displaced residents. Kindred...
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Summit presenters: Wichita has potential for health care innovation
Wichita has potential for a health care innovation ecosystem. Fostering that will be a key to growing and diversifying the local and regional economy, industry stakeholders say. That’s the take of...
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Wingate, Carolinas HealthCare collaborate on physical-therapy residency program
Wingate University and Carolinas HealthCare System have created a new residency program to educate those focused on neurologic physical therapy. Those practitioners often work with people who have had...
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Pa. outlines plans for implementing medical marijuana program
Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary Karen Murphy on Wednesday outlined the steps the state is taking to develop temporary regulations in order to implement its medical marijuana program. And...
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