Fort Wayne – November 03, 2026 -- James W. Edlund, MD, CWSP, Medical Director of the Parkview Center for Wound Healing, has been recognized by The Inner Circle as a 2026 Pinnacle Lifetime Member. He oversees all medical aspects of four Parkview Health wound facilities.

Edlund directs four Parkview wound-care facilities with a 12-clinician team

His team includes two physicians, a clinical nurse specialist and nine nurse practitioners. Edlund has more than four decades of experience in surgical and wound management disciplines.

TAMPA, Fla. – November 02, 2026 -- Tampa General Hospital (TGH) ranks No. 3 in Florida and No. 1 on Florida's West Coast in Newsweek's 2027 America's Best-in-State Hospitals ranking, the fourth consecutive year it has been the highest-ranked hospital in the Tampa Bay region.

TGH has held the regional top spot every year since the list began. It has also placed among Florida's top three hospitals in every edition.

Addison – November 02, 2026 -- Solis Mammography and Jefferson Health are opening two joint breast health centers: Jefferson-Solis Mammography Cinnaminson, New Jersey, on Nov. 2, 2026, and Jefferson-Solis Mammography Ardmore, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 9, 2026.

Hauppauge – November 02, 2026 -- SightMD, an ophthalmic group with 38 locations across New York, has added cornea specialist Brittany M. Perzia, MD, to its Yonkers office, where she is now seeing patients.

Dr. Perzia specializes in Cornea & External Disease and Comprehensive Ophthalmology. Her clinical interests include corneal disease, ocular surface disorders, complex anterior segment conditions and cataracts. She provides both medical and surgical eye care.

Menlo Park – November 02, 2026 -- Hippocratic AI has launched Polaris 6 Ultra, a healthcare language model that runs a 7.4-trillion-parameter safety constellation 1.3 times faster end to end than its predecessor, Polaris 5, as patients experience it.

The company says the model is the first in healthcare to read a patient's emotional state and plan its next sentence while the previous one is still being spoken. Polaris 5 ran at 5.0 trillion parameters.

DELRAY BEACH – November 02, 2026 -- The dental 3D printing market will grow from USD 4.35 billion in 2026 to USD 10.08 billion by 2031, a CAGR of 18.3%, according to MarketsandMarkets.

ABBOTT PARK, Ill. – November 02, 2026 -- Abbott's investigational Amulet 360 left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder achieved complete closure (zero mm leak) in 96.3% of patients assessed by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) at one year in the VERITAS pivotal study.

Washington – November 02, 2026 -- URAC and Asembia have launched a strategic partnership that gives eligible members of Asembia's Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) access to URAC accreditation programs, educational resources and support. The companies describe the arrangement as a streamlined path to URAC accreditation for specialty pharmacies.

Bonn – November 02, 2026 -- Deutsche Krebshilfe is funding six research projects with a total of €3.1 million over three years to examine how social inequality shapes cancer care and what financial damage a diagnosis causes. The new priority program, "Krebs und Armut" (Cancer and Poverty), targets a gap the charity describes as insufficiently researched.

Fairfax, Va. – November 02, 2026 -- Nearly 95,000 social media views of Allergy & Asthma Network's Oral Corticosteroids (OCS) Overexposed campaign were recorded, and 62% of them came from four large states, according to research the nonprofit will present at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2026 Annual Meeting and Expo in San Antonio, Texas.