South Florida's affordable land, bilingual workforce, and easy access to Latin and South America, combined with its health conscious population, have attracted more than 1,000 new health and beauty company jobs. (Read more)

Orlando-based AcariaHealth Inc. plans to create up to 80 new jobs in the next three years. (Read more)

Florida Hospital and Sanford-Burnham celebrate the opening of the Florida Hospital-Sanford-Burnham Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes' (TRI) new state-of-the-art facility in downtown Orlando, dedicated to the advancement of a new paradigm of personalized approaches to researching and treating diabetes and obesity. (Read more)

Health Management Associates Inc., parent corporation of Venice Regional Medical Center, plans to expand its regional central business office in Sarasota County, a move that is expected to preserve 148 local jobs and add 217 positions over two years. (Read more)

Medtronic, a medical technologies company, will build a new 75,000 square-foot building to expand its surgical technologies division headquarters in Jacksonville and expects to create 175 new full-time jobs by the end of 2015. (Read more)

ConMed Linvatec celebrated the grand opening of its new Center for Orthopaedic Education in Pinellas County. The 16,000-square-foot training facility will provide advanced surgeon education, surgical skills training and professional development on the company's existing medical device development and manufacturing operations. (Read more)

Martin Health System broke ground today on its new hospital at the Tradition Center for Innovation. The 90-bed Tradition Medical Center will provide a valuable resource for research studies taking place at TCI. (Read more)

The Tradition Center for Innovation and the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute Florida today announced the grand opening of a new, 100,000 square foot facility within TCI's 15--acre research park. Since breaking ground in 2006, TCI has attracted world-class research institutes and healthcare facilities making it one of the fastest growing immunology research hubs in the country. (Read more)

Moffitt Cancer Center announced the creation of a Personalized Medicine Institute aimed at making a national impact in the war on cancer by delivering on the promise of personalized cancer care. (Read more)

In addition to construction jobs, some 200 permanent jobs are expected to be created at the new $65 million Poinciana Medical Center. (Read more)

Dental products manufacturer DENTSPLY Raintree Essix Glenroe is consolidating operations in Manatee County, a move that is expected to preserve 150 local jobs and add 48 positions in 2012. (Read more)

Humana Cares began operating in the Tampa Bay area roughly three years ago. After this latest round of hiring, the Humana division will employ roughly 1,450 workers from the local labor force. (Read more)

Axium Healthcare Pharmacy, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, has announced plans to expand its operations in Lake Mary, Fla., including a $664,000 capital investment for a new facility. The company plans to hire 90 new jobs over the next three years and retain an existing 115 positions. (Read more)

Enzymedica Inc., a life sciences company and industry leader of therapeutic enzyme supplements, has renovated its new, larger location in Sarasota County to expand its laboratory and production facilities and add 72 employees. (Read more)

Moffitt, Sanford-Burnham and Florida Hospital join to create the Personalized Medicine Partnership of Florida. (Read more)

By 2017, the College of Medicine and UCF's medical city partners at Lake Nona are projected to create 30,000 jobs and more than $7.6 billion in annual economic impact. (Read more)

Matrix Medical Network, a provider of health assessments to members of Medicare Advantage health plans, is opening a marketing outreach center in Clearwater with plans for at least 150 employees. (Read more)

America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses debuted in Miami-Dade County with plans to create more than 200 jobs this year statewide, and similar growth over the next three years with the creation of 200 jobs per year. (Read more)

One of the fastest growing companies in America has strengthened its commitment to Florida by pledging to create 600 new jobs, expand its current facility and build a new 200,000 square foot facility. (Read more)

St. Anthony's celebrates the grand opening of its new emergency center and patient care tower, a $61 million, 105,000 SF addition that includes state-of-the-art technology upgrades. (Read more)

National Healing Corporation is growing its staff from 80 to 145 employees as it builds a state-of-the-art, high-tech training center that will serve as a global hub for wound care education where hundreds of doctors, nurses and other medical technicians will be trained monthly. (Read more)

The significant growth of MobileHelp over the last 24 months required relocation to a larger facility for the existing employees and the 55 new employees that are projected to be hired over the next several years. (Read more)

LYF Holdings is moving its headquarters out of Washington, D.C. and into West Palm Beach, creating 91 new Florida jobs. (Read more)

MAKO Surgical Corp. is expanding in Davie, creating 100 new Florida jobs. (Read more)

H2Ocean, headquartered in Martin County, plans to add 30 employees in the next 36 months and will explore additional space when they reach capacity in their current location. (Read more)

USF opened a comprehensive center that integrates patient-centered care, education and research with innovative design and state-of-the-art technology and announced two new grants for diabetes research: a $3.5 million grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and a $55.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. (Read more)

The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, Inc. announced that two companies have decided to expand their operations adding 60 new jobs for local residents. (Read more)

IRX Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company, is relocating from New York City to St. Petersburg by the year's end. The company will staff more than 280 positions within five years at a projected minimum average wage of $90,000 annually. (Read more)

Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), a world leader in orthopedics, rheumatology and rehabilitation, announced the establishment of HSS Spine & Sport in Jupiter -- the first HSS expansion beyond the New York region. (Read more)

Sarasota Medical Products Inc., an early-stage company specializing in ostomy and advanced wound care products, has secured $3.56 million in private and public funding to begin manufacturing at a new Sarasota facility. (Read more)

The National Cancer Institute has awarded Moffitt Cancer Center researchers a training grant to develop a Fertility Reproduction and Cancer Training Institute for Oncology Nursing (FRACTION). (Read more)

ESI Florida, a biotechnology investment company that plans to create 150 jobs, will lease 27,000 square feet for office and lab space in Jupiter. (Read more)

Humana, one of the most prolific corporate job creators in the Tampa Bay area the past two years, is still on a roll. The Louisville-based insurer is adding 300 more jobs at its Humana Cares unit in St. Petersburg. (Read more)

Xcelience, a Tampa, FL-based contract research organization, is expanding its footprint and more than doubling its employment over the next three years. (Read more)

Biotech company Rapid Pathogen Screening plans 164 new jobs in a Sarasota County headquarters expansion. (Read more)

Voalte Inc., innovator of health care communications technology, plans to add 50 new jobs as the company expands its facility in Sarasota County. (Read more)

U.S. News & World Report gave Florida hospitals top marks in their respective specialties in an annual ranking of America's Best Hospitals. Nine Florida hospitals earned nearly 30 awards, including a #1 ranking in Ophthalmology. (Read more)

Pivotal Therapeutics Inc. announces the opening of its U.S. headquarters at the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University. The U.S. location will focus upon the commercialization and product distribution of its lead cardiovascular product VASCAZE(TM). (Read more)

Alachua-based biotechnology company Pasteuria Bioscience Inc. has partnered with Syngenta, the largest agri-business company in the world, to develop nematode control products for agricultural and specialty crops. (Read more)

Great HealthWorks has been awarded a Florida Quick Response Training Grant that will help create 346new jobs over the next two years and provide customized training for new employees. (Read more)

Florida Hospital is improving its laboratory testing capabilities with new state-of-the-art equipment from Roche Diagnostics that is designed to help labs increase their testing capacity and deliver reliable results with greater efficiency. The high-volume, automated system will allow patient blood samples to pass through the testing process untouched by human hands. (Read more)

In a landmark deal, the Army's Orlando-based training and simulation agency has won a $5 million contract to provide medical-care training systems for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' new Orlando medical center and for VA hospitals nationwide. (Read more)

All Children's is the first US hospital outside of the Baltimore/Washington DC region to achieve membership within Johns Hopkins Medicine, which includes The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System. (Read more)

Humana, one of Tampa Bay's most prolific job generators throughout the recession, is at it again. The health insurer is hiring another 177 employees between now and July at Humana Cares, its St. Petersburg-based division that provides outreach help over the phone and in person to chronically ill members. (Read more)

The Red Hills Surgical Center, a joint venture between Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and 35 local physicians from several area practices, will provide a multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center offering outpatient surgical procedures, as well as an educational observation room. (Read more)

Naples-based Arthrex is building a new biomedical operations and manufacturing facility that will hire 150 employees upon completion, and will add hundreds more jobs over the next few years. (Read more)

Arthrex, Inc. President and Founder Reinhold Schmieding proudly reports Arthrex's combined operations located in Naples hired its 1000th local employee in January 2011. (Read more)

VR Laboratories plans to create 208 new, full-time jobs in Lee County over the next five years with average salaries of $66,850 plus benefits. VR Laboratories was formed to be the leading global formulator and producer of FDA-approved botanical pharmaceuticals and medicines and proprietary ingredients for medicinal and functional foods and beverages. (Read more)

CROMA Pharmaceuticals, an Austrian-based company involved in the manufacture of ophthalmology, orthopedics and aesthetics products, has located a new subsidiary in Fort Lauderdale.

The University of South Florida is one of 16 official U.S. study sites for the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative, a landmark observational clinical study sponsored by The Michael J. Fox Foundation, which will use a combination of advanced imaging, biologics sampling and behavioral assessments to identify biomarkers of Parkinson's disease progression. (Read more)

OrthoSensor Inc., a company developing intelligent orthopedic implants and sensor-assisted surgery systems, has raised $21 million in Series B financing. (Read more)

Jupiter Medical Center recently launched its Robotic Surgery Program featuring the da Vinci Si Surgical System. (Read more)

Medtino Incorporated, a federally licensed national Provider of direct-to-consumer Medicare reimbursed medical products and services, is moving to Ocala with plans to create 180 jobs over the next three years. (Read more)

Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine announced plans to establish the LECOM School of Dental Medicine in Lakewood Ranch. (Read more)

Baptist Medical Center Beaches has opened its new state-of-the-art surgery center which is equipped with the latest surgical technology, including high-definition monitors, LED surgical lights, reflectors that diminish shadows in the surgical field and a centralized computer system that controls all equipment from a single desk. (Read more)

USF Health began construction today on its Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, a $30million project that will help change how healthcare professionals learn, making cutting-edge medical technologies safer for patients. (Read more)

Romark Laboratories, a company developing drugs for infectious diseases and cancer, has raised $23.11million from a mixed securities offering. (Read more)

Since treating its first patient on Aug. 14, 2006, the Southeast's only proton therapy center has delivered more than 73,000 treatments to more than 2,200 patients, making the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute at Shands Jacksonville tenth worldwide in the number of patients treated. (Read more)

Florida Hospital, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, have signed a research agreement to form a collaboration to discover and evaluate new therapeutic approaches to obesity, a growing worldwide health problem. (Read more)

Florida Hospital - Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes recently broke ground on its state-of-the-art, 54,000 square-foot translational research facility. (Read more)

Oak Hill Hospital to undergo $50 million, 100,000-square-foot expansion that will add eight operating rooms, 36 private rooms and 18 beds to the post-anesthesia care unit. The expansion is expected to result in 600 construction jobs and 70 hospital staff positions for Hernando County. (Read more)

A small Clermont startup company that launched a doctor-friendly electronic medical records program has been purchased by an Indian high-tech firm with plans to open a health-care division in downtown Orlando. (Read more)

HealthGrades has ranked Tampa General Hospital and Shands Hospital at the University of Florida among the nation’s Top Hospital Organ Transplant Centers. (Read more)

Pharmaceutical manufacturer CoreRx will soon add 55 high-wage jobs in Pinellas County. (Read more)

Veterans will soon have expanded healthcare options, as the VA builds a $35 million, two-story, 135,000-square-foot facility near Shands Jacksonville. (Read more)

Vicor Technologies, a Florida bio-technology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative, non-invasive medical diagnostics, has raised $2.7 million. (Read more)

The Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida has begun construction of its $48.8 million, 100,000 sq. ft., biomedical research facility at the Tradition Center for Innovation in Port St. Lucie. The biotech firm's new three-story campus, which is slated to be finished in 2012, will house scientists working on such infectious disease threats as AIDS and Dengue fever, and will focus more on human clinical trials than its parent campus at Oregon Health & Science University. (Read more)

Natural Prosthetic Dental Lab Inc., a 26-year-old Bradenton company, announced it will expand its facility and hire 283 employees over the next five years to support demand for digitally produced dental restorations. (Read more)

The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute's Cancer Center has been rated "outstanding" by the National Cancer Institute and earned a five-year core grant renewal which provides more than $21 million to support advanced cancer research. (Read more)

Boca Raton's Watermark Medical Inc., a medical products and services company that has developed a web-based sleep diagnostics product, secures a $6 million equity investment. (Read more)

Humana Cares, Humana Inc.'s care management division headquartered in St. Petersburg, is now hiring 270 people in preparation for the January 2011 launch of its new program, Humana Cares Chronic Condition Management. (Read more)

Stem Cell Assurance Inc.,which sells stem cell colleciton and storage services for personal applications, has closed a $1 million funding agreement. (Read more)

Florida hospitals earned top marks in their specialties on U.S. News & World Report's recent rankings of America's Best Hospitals. (Read more)

Oldsmar is about to become the headquarters of a medical manufacturing company, which will bring about 100 high-wage jobs to the area. MicroLumen, whose medical tubing products are used in catheters, stents and other devices, is building a 60,000-square-foot facility at the Brooker Creek Corporate Center. (Read more)

Medical device manufacturer Oscor, Inc. will bring 70 new high-wage jobs to Pinellas County. Oscor has been expanding its research and development efforts and developing innovative technologies steadily over the past three years. (Read more)

Palm Beach County's National Healing Corporation has recently acquired, and is planning to relocate from outside of Florida, an existing medical supply business which provides wound care products. The expansion will create 40 jobs with average salaries of more than $58,000, and will result in a 6,000 square-foot expansion of NHC's current headquarters. (Read more)

Watermark Medical Inc., a medical products and services company currently servicing the sleep-disordered breathing market, has closed a $15 million equity round. (Read more)

Alachua-based startup, NovaMin Technology Inc., has been purchased by U.K. pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in a deal worth $135 million - the largest acquisition of its kind for a local technology company. (Read more)

Business Xpansion Journal and BizMiner have ranked Florida 3rd in the nation for both Medical Devices Startups and New Branches. Florida also ranks 7th for Medical Devices Employment. (Read more)

Palm Health Partners will open The Institute for Aging Life Science & Research at Abacoa. The healthcare facility will create 220 jobs with average salaries of $46,000 and an overall capital investment of $62 million. Palm Health Partners will collaborate with Scripps Florida scientists for clinical research into the causes and prevention of Alzheimer's disease as well as other neurological and age-related conditions. (Read more)

Pico-Tesla Magnetic Therapies, LLC will open an east coast headquarters in Clearwater. The medical research and device development company provides personalized electro-magnetic treatment regimens for multiple diseases and disorders. (Read more)

Moffitt Cancer Center, in collaboration with researchers at Scripps Florida in Jupiter, has been awarded a five-year, nearly $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to design lymph nodes for cancer immunotherapy. (Read more)

GeNO, LLC, a biomedical pharmaceutical company previously located in Cape Canaveral, is expected to bring a total of 24 new jobs to Brevard County and generate a total economic impact of $3.06 million on Brevard County’s economy. GeNO has already hired 11 new employees due to the expansion and expects to hire 6-12 more employees with an average annual wage of $80,000 in the next 12-18 months. (Read more)

A new full-service hospital opened just north of Tampa in Lutz. St. Joseph's Hospital-North, part of BayCare Health System, offers emergency care, surgical services, imaging and diagnostic facilities, intensive care and more. (Read more)

Moffitt Cancer Center received the CEO Cancer Gold Standard reaccreditation, recognizing Moffitt's continuous dedication and commitment to maintaining a high standard of excellence in cancer care and prevention. (Read more)

Osprey Biotechnics Inc., a Sarasota-based biotechnology company that creates beneficial bacterial products which promote animal health, plant health and environmental restoration, is expanding to a larger facility and plans to add 35 employees over the next three years. (Read more)

The announcement of a $50 million gift to the Burnham Institute for Medical Research will further expand the organization's cutting-edge research at Lake Nona's emerging "medical city". (Read more)