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New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has received approval from the state health department to open a heart transplant center at Cohen Children's Medical Center in Queens. 

The Clemons Family Foundation has pledged $11 million to support cancer research and the completion of two building projects at UCI Health-Irvine in California. 

West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health and New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers Cancer Institute have opened the Breast Health Center in East Brunswick, N.J.

A female patient has been cancer-free for 19 years after being treated with engineered CAR-T cells, making her the longest reported case of cancer remission after this treatment, Nature reported Feb. 17.

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Director of Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Cancer, Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, is stepping down from the position after serving for six years. 

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has partnered with Amazon Web Services to accelerate cancer innovation and research through AI, high-performance computing and cloud technologies. 

An international task force has developed standards for tracking outcome measures of patients with heart valve disease, a condition which is expected to double in prevalence by 2040. The standards were published Feb. 17 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes.

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