A health coaching startup founded by Cleveland Clinic wellness chief Dr. Michael Roizen and TV star Dr. Mehmet Oz has raised $1.6 million, according to a regulatory document.MedCity News reported in March that Enforcer eCoaching was aiming to raise $3 million in investment funding. A subsequent regulatory filing revealed that the company has raised $1.6 [...]

Following on the heels of two hospitals, the University of Notre Dame has become the first university to strike a collaboration with Cleveland Clinic aimed at commercializing medical innovations from its faculty and researchers.Through the collaboration, Cleveland Clinic Innovations will essentially do for Notre Dame what it does for the Clinic — help turn employee [...]

What’s your trusted source for health information on the Internet?Cleveland Clinic hopes the answer more and more people come up with to that question is “Health Hub.”The renowned hospital launched the Health Hub site at the end of March “with little fanfare,” but still drew 16,000 visits in April without promotion. The Clinic hopes the [...]

The saying that the way to a man’s heart is through the stomach might be true in more ways than one. Diagnostics company LipoScience is developing a new cardiovascular disease test that would use gut flora as a biomarker for cardiovascular risks.The novel approach is based on research licensed from the Cleveland Clinic. Researchers there [...]

Cleveland Clinic is contributing educational materials to a daily quiz that’s designed to test internists and family medicine physicians on their knowledge of medicine and practice-related issues.The “SmartestDoc” quiz from MDLinx, a website for physicians that’s supported by pharmaceutical advertising, consists of five daily questions. Each month, the physician with the most points from the [...]

The Cleveland Clinic‘s Dr. Steven Nissen, the top cardiologist at the top-rated cardiology hospital in the U.S., recently weighed in on the controversy over medical device failures.“I think people make the assumption that when their doctor implants a device, whether it be an artificial joint or a pacemaker, that it’s undergone very rigorous testing,” Nissen [...]

Cleveland Clinic is seeking funding for human trials of a vaccine that could prevent the formation of breast cancer.Clinic immunologist Vincent Tuohy made a splash about two years ago, when his research on the vaccine was published in the journal Nature Medicine. The research showed that the vaccine prevented breast cancer in 100 percent of [...]

For the promise of personalized medicine to be realized, the health industry needs more people who can interpret genetic data and make that data meaningful to patients, according to a prominent Cleveland Clinic geneticist.The ability to tailor treatment to a patient’s genetic profile — plus, the rapidly declining cost of technology to analyze genetic data [...]

A wellness advice startup founded by Cleveland Clinic wellness chief Dr. Michael Roizen and TV star Dr. Mehmet Oz is looking to raise $3 million in investment funding, according to a regulatory document filed this week.Not much information on the company, Enforcer eCoaching, is available. It doesn’t have a website, and company executives, including Roizen, [...]

Cleveland Clinic chief information officer Dr. C. Martin Harris, one of the Clinic’s 50 greatest doctors ever, has joined Thermo Fisher Scientific’s board of directors.The Clinic’s first-ever CIO, Harris has guided the health system into the world of electronic health records and helped it gain recognition as a national leader in the field of health [...]