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Cleveland Clinic's Weston (Fla.) Hospital has opened the Lozick Women's Center — a 6,800-square-foot facility dedicated to providing treatment and preventive services for breast cancer. 

Erlanger Oncology — a cancer care partnership between Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System and Nashville-based Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center — has selected Sandeep Rajan, MD, as medical director of oncology and hematology.

Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare has become the first health system in Georgia to perform 1,000 heart transplants. 

The Association of American Cancer Institutes has selected Robert Winn, MD, to serve as vice president/president-elect, effective July 20. 

Obesity is typically linked to a higher death risk for most cancers, but it may lengthen survival among some patients with advanced prostate cancer, according to research recently presented at the European Association of Urology congress. 

Seven June and July updates from the payer to know:

Recent cardiology studies have focused on rebounds in emergency heart care after earlier drops amid the COVID-19 pandemic, predictions on which COVID-19 patients are most vulnerable to developing heart conditions and more. 

The American Heart Association has awarded a team of Penn Medicine researchers $2.9 million to study heart disease and cancer in Black and Hispanic patients. 

No machine, no matter how advanced, will improve the patient experience alone, says Umesh Gidwani, MD, director of the cardiac intensive care unit at New York City-based Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Hospitalizations for methamphetamine-related heart failure in California increased 585 percent between 2008-18, according to research published July 13 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.