Night Read (Ohio): Kendle to open center in India

News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:

Kendle International, the clinical research organization in Cincinnati, has received approval from Indian authorities to open an operations center in a Special Economic Zone in the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Knowledge Corridor by mid-April, according to a company release. The new center is a strategic investment for Kendle, which already has offices in from its offices in Ahmedabad and New Delhi, India; Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, China; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bangkok, Thailand; Manila, Philippines; Singapore; and Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.

Arthur ’Buzz’ Brown, founder, president and CEO of ChanTest, the Garfield Heights company that uses proprietary technology to help drug companies figure out what drugs to make and test for drug toxicity, will speak on cardiotoxicity in drug development at the annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 8, according to a Business Wire release.

Lyndhurst cosmetic and general dentist Steven Marsh uses many leading-edge tools to treat his patients. One of the advances is a solution called Oraverse, which cuts Novocaine numbness recovery time in half, WKYC.com reported.

A survey of Ohioans in nursing homes and assisted living facilities concludes they’re pretty satisfied with the care they’re getting, according to WKSU-FM.

Mercy Medical Center in Canton now offers radiologic services, such as CT scans, to the Alliance community with the acquisition of ARCH Diagnostics Imaging, according to a hospital release.