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Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Transplant Center partnered with Evansville, Ind.-based Deaconess Health System to open a new transplant clinic in Newburgh, Ind.

Cardiologists are speaking out against a Lown Institute report that alleged 1 in 5 stents placed in Medicare recipients were considered "overuse," Medscape reported Dec. 20.

The Northwestern Medicine St. George Cancer Institute opened its expanded services thanks to a $51 million gift, the Chicago Tribune reported Dec. 20.

Morphine is widely considered the "gold-standard treatment" for pain during cancer care, but a new study found the drug was not superior to other opiates. 

College Park-based University of Maryland researchers were the first to discover a protein that plays a significant role in the development of the heart, Science Daily reported Dec. 15.

Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai expanded its Virtual Second Opinion Program to women with heart disease.

The U.S. Defense Department has awarded a $3.2 million research grant to fund "unconventional" cancer research at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The grant will form the Convergent Science Cancer Consortium, which will bring together experts from…

Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare appointed David Shavelle, MD, chief of cardiology of the system.

New York state is calling for proposals for developers to build a 200,000-square-foot cell and gene therapy hub.

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