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The University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City announced the opening of its new women's heart center.

David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and Boston-based Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center have partnered to study pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, according to a Boston Globe report.

Verde Valley Medical Center in Cottonwood, Ariz., announced the hospital and the Cancer Centers of Northern Arizona Healthcare-Sedona have affiliated with The University of Arizona Cancer Center based in Tucson.

University Hospital in Cleveland is now one of just several hospitals in the country performing cryoablation to provide pain relief to cancer patients, according an NBC 5 Cleveland report.

Kingsport, Tenn.-based Wellmont Health System has announced the opening of the Alpha Natural Resources Center for Interventional Cardiology at Bristol (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center.

The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults has announced the opening of a new Adolescent and Young Adult Patient Navigation Program at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore.

A survey has found nine out of 10 physicians are unwilling to recommend healthcare as a profession, and 43 percent of respondents are considering retirement within the next five years due to changes in American healthcare, according to findings from…

Foundation Surgical Hospital in Bellaire, Texas, has announced a name change to Houston Orthopedic and Spine Hospital.

St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network based in Pennsylvania has announced a name change to St. Luke's University Health Network.

Heart failure patients who were treated by an internist or family physician had a higher risk of 30-day and one-year mortality than patients who were treated by cardiologists, according to a study in American Heart Journal.