Hospital utilization of oncology biosimilars — and the price markup margins associated with them — have increased, according to a study published March 11 in JAMA. Researchers from University of California Berkeley and Providence, R.I.-based Brown University analyzed Blue Cross…
Author: Elizabeth Gregerson
Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Children’s Hospital has become the first facility in Oklahoma to offer a targeted chemotherapy treatment for retinoblastoma, according to a March 9 report KOCO News. The treatment delivers chemotherapy directly to the patient’s eye via catheter, bypassing…
Seattle-based Fred Hutch Cancer Center has appointed Mazyar Shadman, MD, and Vyshak Alva Venur, MD, as deputy chief medical officers. Both have served as interim deputy chief medical officers since September, according to a March 10 LinkedIn post from the…
Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital — part of Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham — has received $35 million from Irving Oil to fund two cancer-focused facilities within the Phillip and Susan Ragon Building, currently under construction. The funds will establish the…
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has expanded its cell and gene therapy program to include 12 FDA-approved therapies. The program now offers more cell and gene therapies than any pediatric center on the West Coast, according to a March 5 news…
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The number of deceased donors whose transplanted organs were suspected of transmitting Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus increased about five-fold between January 2021 and September 2025 compared to between 2016 and 2020, according to a March 5 report from the CDC. A…
Sridhar Seshadri, president of Palo Alto, Calif.-Stanford Medicine Cancer Center, has died. Mr. Seshadri died Nov. 26 at age 66, according to a March 10 news release from Stanford (Calif.) Medicine. He joined Stanford in 2003 as vice president of…
Mobile, Ala.-based USA Health has tapped Brian Persing, MD, as director of the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute. Dr. Persing will assume the role of director May 12, according to a March 10 news release shared with Becker’s. He will…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will work together to ensure workforce stability as the two organizations navigate the end of a longtime partnership, according to a March 10 report from The Boston Globe. In April,…
A research team from Renton, Wash.-based Providence has launched an interactive toolkit to help health systems boost equity in medical research. The toolkit was developed on insights gathered after two years of research and community outreach across Los Angeles, Boston…