Tim Moran still remembers hearing his prematurely born daughter scream when an adult-sized cannula was inserted in her mouth and taped to her face to deliver oxygen. Several years later, Moran has started PediaWorks, a not-for-profit organization that will work with medical professionals to develop pediatric medical devices, spinning off for-profit companies to commercialize those devices.

Researchers led by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School have discovered a molecular pathway that works through the immune system to regenerate damaged kidney tissues.

A sale of Youngstown’s Forum Health, which is reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, to Nashville, Tenn., hospital system Ardent Health Services hinges on successful negotiations with unions representing about 3,500 Forum workers, unnamed sources told the Tribune Chronicle.

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron plans to award its first six research grants for $100,000 each by mid-February.

The Cleveland Clinic plans to expand its Strongsville Family Health and Surgery Center to add high-tech cancer fighting equipment, according to the Sun Star-Courier.

The University of Cincinnati Department of Psychiatry hopes to join a national network proposed by U.S. Senate legislation to improve research, diagnosis, treatment and care for those suffering from depressive disorders.

About one in three financial executives of health care organizations surveyed by Grant Thornton LLP said they would hire more workers within six months. Three Ohio hospitals contacted about the Grant Thornton survey don’t quite fit the hiring trend.

Michael Fisher will take over for longtime leader Jim Anderson who is leaving at year’s end. Fisher spent five years on the hospital board and also for a time lead the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce.

The National Institutes of Health has released $1,156,739 of economic stimulus money for medical research and education to seven institutions and hospitals in Ohio.

Cincinnati Children’s was one of two Midwest hospitals — including St. Louis Children’s Hospital — ranked in all 10 categories of the 2009 America’s Best Children’s Hospitals Honor Roll by U.S. News & World Report.