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Chicago-based Ascension Illinois is moving two primary care clinics into one of its hospitals. Labouré Clinic and Lakeview Internal Medicine Clinic will now be located on the 10th floor of  Ascension St. Joseph-Chicago campus. The new space offers additional exam…

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Endowment is giving more than $13 million to Charleston, S.C.-based Medical University of South Carolina to expand the school’s multistate maternal and infant health initiatives. The multiyear investment includes $8 million to support five health systems —-…

As hospital and health systems navigate workforce changes, AI disruption and a post-pandemic trust deficit, a clear theme has emerged among leaders: The largest gaps in leadership aren’t technical, they’re human. Executives at the front of healthcare leadership say their…

A federal court has temporarily halted a Florida-based operation that the Federal Trade Commission alleges collected more than $91 million by deceiving consumers into purchasing fake health insurance coverage. The FTC filed its complaint April 7 in the U.S. District…

Drugmakers and industry groups are accelerating investments in AI, manufacturing and dealmaking while navigating regulatory and policy shifts. Recent moves reflect a broader push to speed drug development, expand production capacity and reposition portfolios amid competitive and political pressure. Here…

Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has agreed to pay $14.8 million to resolve allegations it violated the Civil Monetary Penalties Law, according to the HHS Office of Inspector General. The OIG claimed the hospital provided improper financial benefits…

Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University has laid off 59 Knight Cancer Institute employees across multiple research projects.  According to a statement shared with Becker’s, 30 employees were laid off from the Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center and 12…

Ramco Healthcare Holdings, the landlord of two Chicago-area hospitals that closed in August 2025 and March 2026, respectively, has filed a lawsuit against the facilities’ operator, Resilience Healthcare, alleging financial mismanagement. Ramco’s lawsuit comes one week after Resilience had filed…

The federal government launched a behavioral health research initiative, with $50 million allocated to match state investments in psychedelic research, including psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound being studied to treat serious mental illness. Research interest in psilocybin is growing, particularly for…