Kent State University’s College of Nursing and Donna Karan’s Urban Zen Foundation are collaborating on a program that seeks to reduce nurses’ job-related stress and burnout through yoga and other Eastern practices.

Kent State University’s School of Nursing will begin offering doctorate of nursing practice degrees, which are intended to prepare advanced practice nurses as leaders in translating research evidence into clinical practice.

Some Summa Health System physicians will attend a lot of Kent State University varsity events during the upcoming school year as part of a partnership between the Akron health system and Kent university. Beginning with the new school year, physicians from the Summa Center for Sports Health will provide medical care to Kent State student-athletes in all varsity sports, including baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, track and field, volleyball and wrestling.

Kent State University‘s College of Nursing has received a grant that will enable it to award 10 $10,000 scholarships.The college will use the funding to boost the number of students enrolled in its accelerated nursing program, and increase the diversity of its student population, according to a statement from Kent State.The funding comes from the [...]

Kent State University will begin offering a master’s degree in public health this fall.The degree will be available in five specializations: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and health policy and management, according to a statement from the university.The master’s degree marks the third program available at Kent State’s new College of [...]

Four Northeast Ohio institutions have received a four-year, $2.7 million federal grant to study cognitive impairment in heart failure patients.The study’s goal is to understand why heart failure patients often have trouble managing their complex medical regimen, according to a statement from Kent State University.The other collaborating institutions on the project are the Case Western [...]

Wright State University in Dayton plans to build a $22 million state-of-the-art center to make the university a national leader in neuroscience research, and Premier Health Partners plans to provide $4.3 million over five years to create a department of neurology at Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine, according to the Dayton Daily News.

Two years after emerging as an independent with aspirations to become one of the nation’s top hospitals, Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn hopes to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the next decade, recruit more than 200 doctors to Greater Cincinnati and build a network of about five ambulatory centers around the region, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut donned their high-tech marketing hats Friday, touting the state’s leadership in biomedical and health care innovation by announcing centers of excellence at 14 universities.

Northeast Ohio’s economy has been more similar to the U.S. economy during the current recession than in the 1981 recession, thanks in part to growth in the region’s biomedical industry, according to the most recent edition of Team NEO’s quarterly Cleveland Plus Economic Review.