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In response to the decision by a region's largest group of heart specialists to move headquarters, Laura Kaiser, CEO of Pensacola, Fla.-based Sacred Heart Health System, is beginning to form its own cardiology group within the system, according to a…

From 1999-2008, lung cancer incidence decreased among men in 35 U.S. states and among women in six states, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The University of Michigan's Board of Regents has approved the creation of two new departments within the university's medical school, according to an AnnArbor.com report.

UT Erlanger Cardiology Group, part of Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System, will provide cardiology services at Hutcheson Medical Center in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.., according to a Chattanoogan report.

A $10 million grant by retired biotechnology leader and trustee board member Henri A. Termeer will help Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston build the Henri and Belinda Termeer Center for Targeted Therapies, according to a Boston Globe report.

Sanford Health, based in Fargo, N.D., has been growing its market presence in the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks community after its merger with MeritCare, also based in Fargo, according to a Grand Forks Herald report.

UCLA Health System has conducted a dedication ceremony marking near-completion of a new $572 million hospital campus in Santa Monica, according to a health system release.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas HealthCare System has received certificate of need approval to build a new hospital in Fort Mill, S.C., beating out rivals Tenet Healthcare and Novant Health, which also applied to develop a hospital in the area, according to…

Ground has broken for the building of Stillwater Billings Clinic in Columbus, Mont., according to a Billings Gazette report.

Mercy Suburban Hospital in East Norriton, Pa., recently broke ground on an $8 million cancer center, according to a Times Herald report.