Mayo Clinic beat Cleveland Clinic in the much-hyped and highly questionable U.S. News and World Report‘s list of America’s best hospitals.But at least Cleveland Clinic can take solace in the fact that it’s the clear victor in a comparison of the two heavyweight hospital systems’ websites, according to a recent edition of Website Smackdown at [...]

The property developers behind Cleveland Clinic‘s 364-bed hospital in Abu Dhabi project that the hospital will open to patients in the fourth quarter of 2013.The final phase of construction is due for completion and handover in the second quarter of 2013, with the opening scheduled for later in the year, according to a statement from [...]

Cleveland Clinic has opened a new office in Saudi Arabia, with the primary focus of its new location to be medical education and training. The office in the Saudi capital of Riyadh opened Sunday and employs three Clinic workers, Cleveland Clinic spokeswoman Eileen Sheil said.

2011 was likely the best ever for Cleveland Clinic Innovations in its more than a decade of existence.The Innovations group, which is charged with commercializing medical inventions by Clinic health providers, last year enjoyed its largest-ever exit, pulled in its biggest-ever donation, signed what was touted as a first-of-its-kind deal to provide commercialization services to [...]

Cleveland Clinic is touting itself as one of the few health centers in the country that’s offering a new stent from Covidien that’s designed to divert blood away from aneurysms.Clinic surgeons have implanted the Pipeline Embolization Device, a flexible stent that’s placed in the carotid artery, in 12 patients thus far, The Plain Dealer reported.var [...]

The Cleveland Clinic and obesity really don’t mix.In recent years, the renowned health system has drawn attention for pushing deep fryers, sugary sodas and trans fats off its main campus, and for CEO Toby Cosgrove’s controversial comments that American society “protects” overweight people instead of giving them a “social stigma.”Now, the Clinic has rejected a [...]

Cleveland Clinic spinoff Tolera Therapeutics is more than halfway to its goal of a $1.65 million round of financing for its immunomodulation therapy for organ transplant.Cofounded by Dr. Maria Siemionow, the leader of the Cleveland Clinic surgery team that performed the nation’s first near-total face transplant in 2008, Tolera is developing a drug intended to [...]

A Cleveland Clinic spinoff that’s developed a self-clearing catheter system has raised its first institutional round of investment funding.Clear Catheter Systems has landed a $4 million round, led by Aphelion Capital and California Technology Ventures, with participation from Research Corporation Technologies, according to a statement from Bend, Oregon-based Clear Catheter.Clear Catheter plans to use the [...]

Two of the Cleveland Clinic‘s greatest doctors ever, Eric Topol and Steven Nissen, have carved out contrasting views on one of the hottest topics in healthcare: personalized medicine.The preeminent cardiologists’ opposing viewpoints recently came to light after Nissen, currently the Clinic’s chair of cardiovascular medicine, penned an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical [...]

Cleveland Clinic researchers are developing an iPad app to help doctors and athletic trainers better diagnose concussions.The app works by strapping an iPad to an athlete’s waist and then measuring changes to the athlete’s postural stability on hard and soft surfaces.“The idea behind the ipad concussion assessment app that we’re working on is to try [...]