Company inspired by cancer survivor grows
In a quest for independence after battling cancer, the father of a Greenville founder rushed to the hardware store to fashion the prototype for what would later become a commercial medical device. Years later, the company
Greenville fitness franchise expands to Vietnam and Indonesia
The Greenville-based kickboxing franchise plans to launch 50 Asian locations over the next seven years. The company already has contracts in place to expand to Oman, Egypt and South
Greenville medical school adopts lifestyle medicine training
The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville is the first medical school in the country to fully incorporate lifestyle medicine training into all four years of its undergraduate medical school curriculum.
Grant intends to create more nurses by bolstering faculty
An upstate university has secured a grant intended to address an ongoing nursing shortage by creating more nursing school faculty. BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation provided the grant for …
Prisma Health shares how omicron sets new precedent for employers
The week of Jan. 10, the rate of hospitalizations jumped by 51% across the Prisma Health network. Prisma Business Health Solutions' Dr. Rachel Brown shares what makes omicron different and what employers need to know about
Blood Connection experiences historic shortages after storm
Piedmont-based Blood Connection projects it will receive only 60% of the blood its partner hospitals need over the next month. Here are businesses and nonprofits helping out this …
Courthouse contractor expects federal projects to triple in 2022
It had never crossed the mind of Jordon Construction Co.'s founder that he might find himself on CBS News' 60 Minutes. He's been too busy, especially as his company concludes Greenville's Federal Courthouse
Community helps seed new veteran service center
Using donations from the fund of a local veteran and a community fundraising campaign, a Greenville nonprofit is building out a center to provide services to former service members. The center will be named
FDA director to keynote SCBIO conference
SCBio will host a hybrid in-person and virtual conference in Charleston Feb. 22-24 featuring a presentation from Food and Drug Administration executive Valerie Jensen and the unveiling of a life science economic impact study from
Upstate lab to hire hundreds following omicron surge
Two weeks ago, an Upstate lab confirmed its first handful of omicron cases. Since then, COVID-19 tests processed by the lab leapt by 250% in a jump the company blames on …
GSP expects half of last December’s traffic in one week
National December polls show that few Americans expect the COVID-19 omicron variant to get in the way of their holiday vacation. The Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport is preparing for between ...
Clemson-linked lab tracks omicron’s spread to Upstate
Six days after the first three cases of Omicron appeared in South Carolina, a Greenville lab has confirmed that 10 positive COVID-19 samples of the variant were found at an Upstate school …