Alexandra Murphy

Thermo Fisher Scientific acquired Solventum’s purification and filtration business for $4 billion. The new filtration unit will operate within Thermo Fisher’s Life Sciences Solutions segment.  The deal includes Solventum’s bioprocessing filtration, healthcare and industrial filtration, and membrane technologies, according to an Sept. 2 news release from the devicemaker. The company…

Researchers have successfully used repurposed cancer drugs to target dormant breast cancer cells, aiding in the delay or prevention of recurrence, according to a study published Sept. 2 in Nature Medicine.  Researchers from Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine enrolled 51 breast cancer survivors…

Columbus-based Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute has launched a fully remote clinical trial for pancreatic cancer patients across the U.S. Led by Sameek Roychowdhury, MD, PhD, an oncologist at the OSUCCC-James and a professor at The Ohio State University…

Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health is preparing to implement systemwide ambient digital scribing after piloting the technology with 300 providers across multiple disciplines, according to a Rochester Business Journal Sept. 3 report.  The AI-powered tool captures visit conversations via smartphone, generating components of clinical notes to reduce documentation burden and enhance…

As the number of COVID-19 cases begin to increase, there have been shifts in the vaccine landscape, especially regarding updated COVID-19 shots. Through the week ending Aug. 23, 11.2% of the 37,732 tested were positive for COVID-19, an increase from 9.9% the previous week, according to the CDC’s latest data. …

The Republican-led House Appropriations Committee has released a spending bill for 2026 that quietly ignores an $18 billion cut to the National Institutes of Health that President Donald Trump proposed earlier this year.  The proposed budget bill, released Sept. 2, calls for $48 billion in NIH funding for fiscal 2026,…

From HCA adding hospitals in New Hampshire and Florida to Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic Health System finalizing their 56-hospital merger, here are 31 hospital mergers and acquisitions completed in 2025: 1. Cincinnati-based TriHealth said Sept. 2 it completed its acquisition of Clinton Memorial Hospital, a 140-bed facility in Wilmington,…

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil complaint against Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica Health System for providing “non-existent, grossly substandard skilled nursing facility care or services” between 2017 and 2023.  The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania under the False Claims…

Michigan lawmakers released a budget proposal that would cut $3.7 billion in healthcare funding, according to a 9&10 News report. Four things to know: The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services currently receives $25 billion to cover Medicaid beneficiaries and behavioral health services; the proposed budget would cut 13%…

Best Buy has exited healthcare at home, the company’s CEO said in a recent earnings call. In the Aug. 28 call, Best Buy CEO Corie Barry cited efficiencies that resulted from “moving on from initiatives that aren’t generating the financial return in the timeline we had originally envisioned, such as…