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Baptist Health System is set to begin construction on a new emergency hospital in the suburban San Antonio. Baptist and Houston-based Emerus Hospital Partners LLC will build the new 40, 000-square-foot facility at Interstate 35 North and Schertz Parkway. Construction is valued at over $10 million. The Baptist Emergency Hospital, which should be completed early next year, will be staffed with boa...

Oscar Luis Franco Padron was given a 5.5-year sentence in West Palm Beach Friday for his role in a scheme involving staged accidents and PIP insurance fraud, the U.S. Attorney's office reported. Padron was called the highest-ranking figure to be sentenced so far in two federal cases involving 15 individuals who allegedly were participants. Padron, who managed several clinics and recruited patient...

California’s stem cell agency approved two grants Thursday worth a total of about $6.6 million to researchers at the UC Davis Health System. One grant for almost $5 million was given to Dr. Walter Boyd and his team to study use of stem cells in helping repair damage caused by heart disease. The group plans to use bone-marrow derived stem cells to regenerate damaged heart tissue, block heart disea...