The nation’s poverty rate has increased as the recession’s impact is felt by families across the country and local food banks and other nonprofits scramble to help meet growing needs.

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Michael Fisher has been elected the next president and CEO of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

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CG3 Consulting, an Edina-based health care, scientific and technology consulting company, announced today it’ll be expanding its reach with new corporate offices opening in Boston and San Diego.

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The Texas Emerging Technology Fund will invest $1 million in Azaya Therapeutics Inc. to help the company commercialize a new treatment for fighting cancerous tumors.

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SoBran Inc. has signed a multi-year deal to support biomedical research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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Gaylord Entertainment Co. on Tuesday announced the closing of its previously-announced public offering of 6 million shares of its common stock. (GET)

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Health care rates are projected to increase about 6 percent for employers in 2010, according to an analysis by Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting and outsourcing company. (HEW)

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Saint Luke’s Hospital was awarded a $4.17 million stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand the use of a tool developed by Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute and designed to give cardiac patients a better idea of projected results of invasive treatments.

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The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday voted down a measure to add a government-sponsored plan to the health insurance reform bill working its way through Congress, the Associated Press reported.

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The Service Employees International Union’s Oakland-based United Healthcare Workers West unit said Tuesday it has reached a compromise agreement with Kaiser Permanente that will preserve 150 pharmacy jobs in Northern California that had been targeted for layoffs.

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