The Research Triangle Park Foundation‘s top executive, Rick Weddle, is leaving to lead an economic development group in Orlando, Florida.The Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission on Tuesday announced that Weddle, president and CEO of the RTP Foundation, will be the Florida group’s new president and CEO. The RTP Foundation is the organization that manages and [...]

As mobile health gains more prominence and critical mass, it’s no surprise that the topic will merit increased attention at the health information technology industry’s premier gathering, the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. One HIMSS session sure to be of interest to attendees who want to learn more about mobile health is scheduled for Monday morning and will be co-hosted by Brian Dolan, editor of MobiHealthNews.

Mayo Clinic said Tuesday it will adopt proton beam technology — which can better deliver radiation to cancer cells without harming normal cells — at its three main campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida; at a cost of $360 million.

(viaWhite Coat andKevin MD)I was incredulous to read about thecase of the EMT service sued for negligence for transporting a pregnant woman to a tertiary care center in Florida. The woman went into laborin the ambulance and the heroic paramedics had to deliver a breeched 25 week-old baby and then resuscitate him en route to [...]

Malcolm Leissring and his team of researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. are partying like it’s 1955.Using work developed by scientists more than five decades ago, Leissring, an assistant professor of molecular neuroscience, has identified a way to prevent an insulin-chewing enzyme from breaking down the hormone needed to remove sugar from the [...]

The Mayo Clinic‘s Jacksonville, Fla. location was fined $10,000 by the state for minor violations of hazardous waste disposal laws.Inspectors from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection found 15 potential problems, which led to two violations that brought small fines, the Florida Times-Union reported.One violation came in the form of boxes of needles and vials [...]

Since 2003, the state has invested some serious cash, $759 million in eight biotechnology campuses in the hopes of starting biotech “clusters” of high-paying jobs. For those efforts, the money has helped create a total of 1,100 jobs, or about $700,00 in taxpayer money per job created.