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Healthcare

  • By Anastasia Dawson
  • October 14, 2026
Tampa healthcare company cuts management positions, shifts focus

DataMeds AI Inc. is shifting resources toward commercializing ChemoFx after acquiring Pittsburgh-based Helomics in September.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • October 14, 2026
Manatee biotech company gets $9.6M grant for HIV prevention

Continuity Biosciences will use the grant to advance the development of a new HIV drug that lasts for multiple years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Anastasia Dawson
  • October 12, 2026
AdventHealth's mobile mammography buses bring breast screenings to work

The mobile program serves four Tampa Bay counties, with a donor-funded bus honoring former Hillsborough Commissioner Dottie Berger MacKinnon.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • October 12, 2026
Michigan biomedical firm acquires majority interest in Sarasota company

The new partnership will enable the Sarasota-headquartered company to scale.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Anastasia Dawson
  • October 9, 2026
USF gets $1.3 million to help fight nursing shortage

Six healthcare agencies are matching state funding as the university expands nursing education in Tampa and St. Petersburg.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • October 7, 2026
AdventHealth pays $21M for Polk office building

The healthcare group bought the property in Davenport from a North Carolina REIT.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • October 6, 2026
Manatee Memorial opens freestanding ER in Parrish

The emergency room accepted its first patient on Oct. 6.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Anastasia Dawson
  • October 6, 2026
Tampa General spine program first in world to receive accreditation

Four surgeons also earned recognition from the Surgical Review Corp.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • October 3, 2026
Firm signs $60M contract for work on Lee Health Fort Myers project

The Swedish construction firm Skanska is working on the 53-acre campus that will replace Lee Memorial Hospital.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Anastasia Dawson
  • October 2, 2026
Dental lab acquisition leads firm to move production from China to Sarasota

Standard Dental Labs plans to move Dunedin-based Dr. Tooth’s production facility.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 24, 2026
SMH to lease 54K-square-foot building, bring cancer services to Venice

When it opens in 2028, the outpatient medical building will include cancer, endoscopy and specialty services.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Anastasia Dawson
  • September 24, 2026
USF researchers’ discovery could advance malaria vaccine development

The finding by USF researchers could help prevent a widespread malaria parasite from hiding in the liver and causing infections months or years later.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 23, 2026
SMH to make nearly $60M land buy in Manatee County for expansion

Sarasota Memorial plans to build a freestanding ER followed by infrastructure to support a full-service hospital campus.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Anastasia Dawson
  • September 22, 2026
Tampa General adopts 15-minute blood test to improve sepsis care

The test helps emergency room doctors distinguish bacterial infections from viral ones, reducing unnecessary antibiotic use and hospitalizations.

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  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 15, 2026
BayCare opens outpatient center in Manatee County

The more than 46,000-square-foot complex is located in Palmetto.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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