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The Hospital of Central Connecticut, part of Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare, has filed an application with the state seeking permission to relocate its medical oncology service in a move it said will better accommodate expansions, the Hartford Business Journal reported June…

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of North Carolina, has tapped Robert Ferris, MD, PhD, to become its next executive director, it announced June 19.

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Nathan Berger, MD, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center's former chief of the hematology and oncology division, died June 16.

Patients with heart failure, or suspected of having it, are not being diagnosed quickly enough, according to a study involving 8,000 patients, which was presented June 15 at the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.

Like many small hospitals, Doylestown (Pa.) Health provides cancer care but often sees patients going to larger centers such as Fox Chase Cancer Center or Penn Medicine, both based in Philadelphia. This has led Sean Reinhardt, MD, chief medical officer…

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