The region's largest nonprofit hospital system, Baptist Health South Florida, announced a high-profile partnership Wednesday with the nationally regarded Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for the new $400 million Miami Cancer Institute under construction next to Baptist Hospital Miami in Kendall and scheduled to open later this year. The alliance with Memorial Sloan Kettering, whose New York City hospital consistently ranks among the nation's top cancer treatment centers, will give Baptist Health patients access to Sloan Kettering's clinical trials, said Michael Zinner, a physician and chief executive of Miami Cancer Institute, in a written statement.
Hundreds of healthcare and support workers at Keck Hospital of USC took part in a one-day strike Wednesday in a continuing dispute over salaries and benefits. Hospital officials said replacement workers were on duty to prevent any disruptions while members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers took part in the job action. According to the hospital, the union represents respiratory therapists, surgery technicians, unit secretaries and environmental services and facilities engineers. Union members began picketing at 6 a.m. and were expected to continue until 6 p.m. The union contends some workers are being paid "poverty wages and inadequate benefits," saying some of its members qualify for food stamps and other forms of public assistance.
A bill that would stop Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from using animals in medical training will get a hearing in Annapolis Thursday. The legislation in the House Health and Government Operations Committee would prohibit any medical school in the state from using live or dead animals in training if there is an alternative method that is used by at least one other medical school in Maryland. Violations could lead to a $1,000 fine per animal. Hopkins is the only medical school in the state, and one of two across the nation, that still uses animals in training.
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Tech companies use a larger portion of equity to compensate their executives than any other industry. The average tech CEO in the Russell 3000 earns about 70 percent of his or her annual compensation in stock and options awards, according to the most recent Bloomberg Pay Index data. Health care and telecommunications services are close behind. For some less proven or cash-poor tech companies, equity is more readily available for compensation than cash. For established and still rapidly growing tech companies, stock awards can also be sweeter than cash because of the potential for added financial upside.
Johns Hopkins said it was set to perform the first kidney and liver transplants between H.I.V.-positive donors and H.I.V.-positive patients in the United States, a development that advocates said could create a lifesaving pipeline for H.I.V. patients while shortening organ donor waiting lists for all. r. Dorry Segev, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, estimated that organs from 500 to 600 H.I.V.-positive potential donors have gone to waste each year.