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McLaren Flint (Mich.) hospital is embarking on a $46 million project to expand the Karmanos Cancer Institute and the McLaren Proton Therapy Center.

The Piedmont Heart Institute, part of Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare, hired nine cardiovascular specialists this year, the health system said Dec. 13. 

A story about a common vaccine side effect was Becker's most-read oncology story in 2021. 

These fifteen oncologists joined new practices, received new appointments or left their positions over the last few weeks.

A round-up of the nation's best hospitals for heart care was Becker's most-read cardiology story in 2021. 

The World Health Organization and Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital announced a partnership Dec. 13 to create a platform that will increase childhood cancer medicine access around the world.

Surgeons at California-based Stanford Children's Health recently performed the organization's 500th pediatric heart transplant.

Recent studies from Yale Cancer Center have focused on telemedicine health visits by race, the effect of a diabetes drug on breast cancer and more. 

Gender, race and ethnicity should not be factors for cardiologists deciding whether invasive heart procedures should be performed on patients, according to a new guideline issued Dec. 9  from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology. 

Austin, Texas-based St. David’s Medical Center physicians were among the first in the U.S. to implant the Barostim System, a new neurostimulator technology used to help treat advanced heart failure, the hospital said Dec. 9.