As the strength of other industries in the state, mainly auto, lessen, the business of healthcare grows, with Washtenaw County coming in at No. 4 in the state behind Wayne, Oakland, and Kent.
The U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital No. 26 in nations top 50 pediatric hospitals.
Ann Arbor-based UNIVAL Inc., has hooked up with Google to help roll out Google Health, a service that allows users to store, organize, and manager their health records online.
One of the world's first sleep research centers have opened up on the campus of the University of Michigan. The Sleep & Chronophysiology Laboratory will test sleep rhythms and substance abuse issues.
The University of Michigan is the first hospital in the state to use space-age equipment for spine surgery.
There isn't much about Innovative BioTherapies that isn't a feel-good story. It makes a product that helps save combat soldiers' lives, hopes to transfer that technology to every day medicine while it looks to create a few jobs (and maybe even hire former Pfizer worker or two).
The fallout from Pfizer closing its Ann Arbor campus isn't falling very far. A bakers dozen of the company's top scientists have taken research jobs at the University of Michigan while many more have landed at local companies, formed their own start-ups or are finding their way into U-M as students, staff and faculty.
RMS has locations throughout the U.S., including a new one in Ypsilanti. The company hopes to expand and add jobs as they spread into nearby markets.
More venture capital money is landing in Ann Arbor. A trio of local VC firms are investing $1 million into Tree Town-based Accord Biomaterials latest innovation.
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