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Humana innovation lab brings Silicon Valley to Louisville
When Humana Inc.'s downtown Louisville Innovation Center was founded two years ago, it was something like a startup. Picture bare walls and furniture "borrowed" from other departments. Staffers made a...
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Johnson & Johnson recruits top Zika researcher to Houston
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has courted a top Zika researcher from Brazil to study the virus at its new JLabs @ TMC. Profesor Leda Castilho from the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Graduate...
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100-bed senior care facility begins in Washington Township
A planned 100-bed senior care facility is kicking off construction in Washington Township. Officials from Cincinnati-based Premier Health Care Management confirmed that work would begin soon on the new...
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Fred Hutch accelerates plans to spin out companies after Juno, other successes
Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is already well known for spinning out biotechnology companies, such as Juno Therapeutics and Blaze Bioscience. Now, however, the center is trying to...
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Medtronic snaps up Minnesota company to tackle knees and hips
Medtronic has bought a Twin Cities medical-device startup founded by med-tech vet Doug Kohrs as it dips its toe in the knee- and hip-replacement business. Medtronic isn’t disclosing terms of its deal...
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SourceMed forms partnership with industry giant to rollout new claims solution
Birmingham-based health IT firm SourceMed has formed a five-year partnership with Nashville-based Change Healthcare to bring a new claims processing and billing solutions to the market. The new...
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MedStar Health completes new heart hospital, readies for final move
An ongoing construction project will no longer greet visitors to the MedStar Washington Hospital Center — the hospital's new MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute is finally set to open later this...
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NIH gives Emory $35.6 million for HIV/AIDS vaccine research
The National Institutes of Health awarded a research consortium at Emory University a five-year, $36.5 million grant to develop new strategies to prevent and cure HIV/AIDS, including vaccine research....
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Former Business Oregon chief lands at Oregon health services company
Sean Robbins, the former state business development leader who left the post earlier this year for Wisconsin, is back in Oregon and will be joining Cambia Health Solutions. Robbins will start his new...
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Legend Senior Living opens OKC assisted living campus
Legend Senior Living has opened an assisted living campus near Oklahoma City. The Highlands at Rivendell is part of a larger expansion for Wichita-based Legend. That campus is designed to provide...
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Adventist Health buys more property near Florida Hospital Orlando
Adventist Health System, Florida Hospital's parent company, has acquired more land near the hospital's main campus in Orlando. Adventist Health System on June 6 bought two parcels totaling .55 acres...
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Medical-device company will buy rival for $1 billion, growing Colorado-based...
Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc., an Indiana-based medical device company, will buy another med-device company, LDR Holding Corp., in a bid to boost its Colorado-based spinal business. Zimmer Biomet's Spine...
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KC health IT company gives patients access to their medical records
Kansas City-based iShare Medical LLC and CEO Linda Van Horn are involved in the inaugural launch of a national effort to encourage patients to take ownership of their medical records across all...
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Expanding N.C. pharma gets FDA green light for generic of Pfizer drug
Mayne Pharma, which is in the middle of a five-year, $65 million expansion in Greenville, received regulatory approval for a generic version of Tikosyn, a drug made by Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). U.S. Food and...
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How Mayo Clinic is pitching its massive research expansion at BIO
Mayo Clinic is at the big BIO International Convention in San Francisco this week touting its Discovery Square project, which calls for a 2 million-square-foot expansion of its research campus. How is...
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UNC spinout raises $2M in first private funding round
BioFluidica, a specialty health care company with roots in UNC-Chapel Hill, raised $2 million, closing the company’s first round of private funding. Based on work started by UNC professor Steven A....
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Sen. Murray touts deal to boost medical research funding by $2 billion
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray says she has nailed down a bipartisan deal to boost funding for the National Institutes of Health next year by $2 billion. Because Washington state ranks No. 8 in the nation for...
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9 companies join Portland Seed Fund portfolio
The eighth class of the Portland Seed Fund will take the stage Wednesday afternoon before 100 investors in downtown Portland, completing the latest cycle of the accelerator. This class of companies...
View ArticleAllegheny County Health Department scores $1.5M grant
The Allegheny County Health Department announced today it has received a two-year, $1.5 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation for its Live Well Allegheny program, an effort launched in...
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NantHealth closes IPO
NantHealth Inc. said it has closed its initial public offering of 6.5 million shares, which were sold at $14 a share. The price reflects a 1-for-5.5 reverse stock split of NantHealth’s common stock...
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