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Health IT giant Cerner plans to acquire the health division of London-based Kantar Group for $375 million. The buy is expected to advance clinical research development. Kantar Health provides data, analytics, and research to the life sciences industry. With this acquisition,…
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BioNexus KC is awarding $200,000 in regional grants to promote the One Health initiative, which aims to foster animal and human health innovation. Four researchers each will receive a $50,000 grant. The funding is part of a $750,000 grant that…
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The Kansas City VA Medical Center will not be receiving any COVID-19 vaccines during the first round of shipments. Now, local VA hospital workers and patients will have to wait weeks before the facility expects to receive its first doses.…
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The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine is taking a step to help ease the burden of rural physician shortages in Missouri. In a Wednesday news conference hosted by UMKC, the University made an announcement that it will expand…
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The Missouri labor market showed further improvement in November 2020. Employment, seasonally adjusted, increased by 17,400 jobs over the month. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased by 0.2 percentage points from October 2020 to November 2020, and the civilian…
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Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas called on the Jackson County Circuit Court to extend and expand a moratorium on evictions in a letter Tuesday sent to the county’s presiding judge. Lucas asked Presiding Judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit…
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An increase in those seeking services through local nonprofit Veterans Community Project has further fueled the organization's $10 million capital campaign for a Veterans Navigation Campus facility. Funds acquired through the campaign are said to be used to expand and…
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Construction of Blue River 2 is expected to soon begin by NorthPoint Development. Blue River 2 is the second of seven planned industrial buildings to be built in the Blue River Commerce Center, grounds formally known as the Bannister Federal Complex.…
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Three topics kept the nation transfixed in 2020: A long, bitter general election campaign leading up to the emergence of President-elect Joe Biden by the barest of margins in a handful of swing states. Large-scale riots, looting and violence that received…
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