Exclusive: New senior living center in works for Fairborn
The partners behind a senior living facility in Springboro now look to develop a similar concept in Fairborn. Minneapolis-based LaSalle Development Group Ltd. is working with Bloomington, Minn.-based...
View ArticleState, counties to fund program to help senior's remain in own homes
Western New York county aging offices will receive $2.85 million in funds to expand services that allow seniors to remain in their homes versus moving to institutional settings. State officials...
View ArticleMother, producer sue state over cannabis shortage
One of the state's medical marijuana producers and a New Mexico mother whose infant daughter has a rare form of epilepsy filed a lawsuit against the New Mexico Department of Health Tuesday claiming a...
View ArticleSAN JOSE: Former Olympic gymnast now wears a doctor’s coat
SAN JOSE — Amy Chow was 16 when I first met her in 1994. Between gymnastics workouts in Campbell, practicing for piano recitals and advanced academic work in high school in Palo Alto — where she was an...
View ArticleFast-growing Greater Cincinnati firm to move HQ
Tim Schroeder, CEO of CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services, revealed today that the fast-growing firm plans to move its headquarters from Blue Ash to Covington. The privately held firm will begin...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Central Ohio community rolls out welcome mat for medical...
Could Central Ohio become the medical marijuana business capital of Ohio? If it does, it will have Apeks Supercritical, which has achieved several milestones in its four-year existence, to thank. The...
View ArticleAgilent to spend $120M on new Weld County facility
Agilent Technologies said it will spend $120 million as part of its plans to build a production facility in Weld County. Last week, California-based Agilent announced the plans for the new facility,...
View ArticleLOUISVILLE: How this care community CEO found her calling
LOUISVILLE — Mary Lynn Spalding doesn’t really like desks. She’d rather be out on the campus of Christian Care Communities, talking to senior residents and hearing their stories and problems. “That’s...
View ArticleHealth Net tried to deter employee whistleblowers, SEC says
Centene Corp.'s Health Net Inc. subsidiary agreed to pay a $340,000 penalty to settle U.S. regulators' allegations the Los Angeles-based unit put language into severance agreements that keeps exiting...
View Article3 CHOP software company spinoffs
Three software product companies recently spun out of CHOP are: Haystack Informatics, developed by Bimal Desai, CHOP’s chief medical officer, and serial entrepreneur Adrian Talapan. The company uses...
View ArticleUNC-supported research claims breakthrough in pain medication
An international team that includes researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill say they have developed a new pain killing drug candidate that doesn’t trigger side effects prevalent with current opioids. The work...
View ArticleSAN FRANCISCO: Online edtech site founder heads to Google's Alphabet
SAN FRANCISCO — Daphne Koller, who cofounded online education site Coursera Inc., will be chief computing officer at Alphabet Inc.-backed aging research company Calico Life Sciences LLC. The...
View ArticleCHOP spins out three health tech companies
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia wants to build off the momentum that began last year when it spun off Spark Therapeutics. To do so it created its Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation to...
View ArticleBucks County woman charged with rigging horse races at Bensalem track
A 25-year-old Bucks County woman was charged Thursday with allegedly rigging thoroughbred horse races by administering a performance-enhancing drug to horses. Marian Vega, of Bensalem, Pennsylvania,...
View ArticleMoffitt one of five chosen for national cell therapy program
Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa has been selected to be a Cell Therapies Processing Facility, a specialization granted by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Moffitt will be one of five...
View ArticleBehind the data: Take a closer look at Washington's 'premium' businesses
Premera Blue Cross tops this week's Puget Sound Business Journal List, which ranks health insurers by premiums written in 2015 in Washington state. Premera wrote $2.83 billion and claimed the largest...
View ArticleHere are Pittsburgh's fastest-growing companies
Pantherx Specialty Pharmacy, a five-year-old specialty pharmacy founded and run by University of Pittsburgh graduates, is the fastest-growing company in Pittsburgh ranked by three-year revenue growth...
View ArticleMercy forms partnership with Anderson Hospital for cancer care
The Mercy health care system has formed a new partnership with Anderson Hospital in the Metro East focused on cancer care. The new service, to be known as Anderson Mercy Cancer Care, will bring both...
View ArticleLocal health centers among recipients of $2.95M from HSS
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services awarded $2.95 million to Pennsylvania to invest in health center quality improvement efforts. Grantees were not broken out by city, but the University...
View ArticleJacksonville-based health care service provider partners with national...
One Call Care Management, a national workers’ compensation care provider based in Jacksonville, is partnering with Lyft to provide rides to its patients across the country. One Call offers...
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