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Health

Feb 18, 2022

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

Feb 17, 2022

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

Feb 9, 2022

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.

Feb 2, 2022

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 …

Jan 24, 2022

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

Jan 20, 2022

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 …

Jan 20, 2022

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

Jan 10, 2022

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

Jan 6, 2022

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

Jan 5, 2022

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 …

Dec 22, 2021

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 ...

Dec 21, 2021

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 …