Pfizer said March 13 it will acquire Seagen, a cancer therapeutics company, for $43 billion.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists named Samuel Calabrese, the chief pharmacy officer of Cleveland Clinic, to be its next vice president of accreditation services. 

U.K. researchers found most men with prostate cancer can delay or avoid treatments without harming their chances of survival, CNN reported March 11.

A new bill in the Florida Legislature seeks to stop nurse practitioners who have earned their doctorate from using the title "doctor."

Close to 25 percent of patients admitted to hospitals may experience an adverse event that could lead to complications with their condition, medication mishaps or even death, according to data from Harvard Medical School in Boston, but technology may be the prescription that curbs these instances.

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are four open positions as of March 13:

The University of Minnesota board of regents has approved a legislative request to fund the reacquisition and initial operations of the university's healthcare facilities on its Minneapolis campus.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has started working with a company that uses artificial intelligence to improve value-based care for providers and health plans.

Three years into the pandemic, many medical experts have let their guards down and resumed some semblance of normal life, though most agree there is still a time and place for COVID-19 precautions, The Washington Post reported March 12. 

Larry Ellison, chair and chief technology officer of Oracle, said the software company's artificial intelligence applications are more valuable to society than ChatGPT because of their ability to improve healthcare.

Marriottsville, Md.-based Bon Secours has kept itself busy in the Richmond, Va., market as it nears completion on an expansion project and sells another facility in the area, according to a March 13 report in Richmond BizSense.

Silicon Valley Bank was shut down March 10 after it failed to raise capital to keep running. The federal government stepped in to protect depositors and restore faith in the nation's banking system.

A $750 million plan to replace West Tennessee's only level 1 trauma center will require $350 million in local funds, NBC affiliate WMC reported March 8. 

Some hospitals are sticking recent nurse graduates with the cost of training programs if they leave or are fired before their contract is up — a practice that has become increasingly common, according to a March 12 report from NBC News. 

Four health systems have named chief strategy officers in the first two weeks of March: 

Operation Nightingale — the Justice Department initiative that discovered more than 7,600 fraudulent diplomas allowed unqualified purchasers to practice as nurses — shocked HHS, the FBI and medical professionals nationwide. 

CVS Health and Cleveland Clinic are among the first entities to adopt Avaneer Health's new data sharing and healthcare administration platform. 

The pediatric mental health crisis is the most pressing patient safety concern in 2023, the Emergency Care Research Institute said March 13. 

Six U.S. health systems were named to the Ethisphere Institute's "World's Most Ethical Companies" list — and all of them are recurring honorees. 

Optum Health promoted Caitlin Zulla to CEO of the company's east region.