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After a tornado decimated the hospital only four years ago, Mercy Hospital Joplin in Joplin, Missouri, reopened its doors in March with a new, 900,000-square-foot facility with state-of-the-art equipment. Part of the acquisition by Mercy Hospital Joplin, formerly St. John’s Regional Medical Center, included eight Aplio 300 Platinum ultrasound systems from Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc.

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Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc. announced plans to move forward with a joint study of the ability of Tc99m-tilmanocept, a Manocept platform product, to localize in high-risk atherosclerotic plaques. The study — funded through a $321,000 Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of Health (NIH) — will be conducted with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School.