Elizabeth Slowik

The Van Andel Research Institute and Gentel Biosciences Inc., a Wisconsin company, recently announced a patent for a method of studying changes in proteins for cancer research.

Saint Mary's Health Care is joining hospitals at the universities of Michigan and Toledo as the first in the Midwest to offer a new way to diagnose Parkinson's syndromes.

Grand Rapids-based Priority Health’s health maintenance organization in March reported a net income loss of $7.16 million for 2010, compared to $17.8 million on the positive side in 2009.

Health care leaders in Grand Rapids, Muskegon and Battle Creek have formed a new organization to promote standardization for quality in the hopes of reducing, or at least stabilizing, medical costs in West Michigan.

Spectrum Health has launched the Heart and Vascular Institute for doctors, researchers, medical students and patients connected to the Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center in Grand Rapids.

" border=0> BRANDON BISSELL, graphics and marketing manager at Imperial Clinical Research Services, a division of Imperial Graphics.

What started out as a small printing job for a Kalamazoo pharmaceutical company years ago is now a worldwide business in supporting clinical research for Grand Rapids-based Imperial Clinical Research Services, a division of Imperial Graphics.

Hanon McKendry has re-branded itself with a new tagline, a new division and new talent.

Phillip Hien Nguyen, owner of a Grand Rapids-based web development business, knows that his accent is thick, despite the nearly three decades he has lived here.

Alexander Marketing, a full-service marketing and public relations firm mostly in the business-to-business arena and located on Grand Rapids’ west side, has welcomed new leadership.

When Alternative Mechanical owner Dick Ortega graduated from Godwin Heights High School in 1970, he recalled, he was one of about a half-dozen Hispanic students in his graduating class.