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A Sanford Research scientist is using an innovative pig model to better understand a rare genetic disorder that causes tumors in the nervous system, thanks to a more than $1.7 million grant from the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF). Jill Weimer, Ph.D., and her team received the award as part of CTF’s Synodos for NF 1 program, a unique collaboration […]

Construction is officially underway on a 100,000-square-foot building dedicated to Sanford Imagenetics, a program unique to Sanford that integrates genomic medicine with innovative primary care for adults. Representatives from Sanford Health, the City of Sioux Falls, the Sioux Falls Development Foundation and the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce participated in the groundbreaking ceremony on […]

Sanford POWER, a program that incorporates the latest in strength development, speed, agility, and plyometrics to local athletes, now has a location in Bismarck. Healthways Athlete Training Center joined Sanford Health and is now Sanford POWER. The facility, located at 2020 Lovett Ave., offers team- and group-based athletic training programs while transitioning into the personalized, […]

The Sanford Health Foundation has met a major milestone in its Gift of Time campaign to build a multi-generational, acute-level hospice facility in Sioux Falls, thanks to a significant lead gift from Ron and Joanne Moquist and contributions from many early campaign supporters. The facility will be named Ava’s House to honor the memory of […]

Sanford Health will soon construct a 100,000-square-foot building dedicated to Sanford Imagenetics, a program unique to Sanford that integrates genomic medicine with innovative primary care for adults. Construction is scheduled to start October 2015 south of the Sanford USD Medical Center campus in Sioux Falls. When completed, the building will house a long list of […]

Sanford Health is among the first sites to offer the EXTEND trial, a clinical trial that will test the ability of the drug tocilizumab to slow disease progression and help maintain natural insulin production in individuals with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is the focus of The Sanford Project, a cornerstone research […]

A Sanford Health clinical trial that looks for genetic targets in cancer is now being offered at the Sanford Cancer Center in Bemidji. The Genetic Exploration of the Molecular Basis of Malignancy in Adults (GEMMA) is enrolling adult patients whose cancer has progressed after the first line of treatment, or who have rare cancers without […]

Profile by Sanford opened locations in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma in February, bringing the weight-management system’s store total to 22 across nine states. New sites included Frisco, Texas; Wichita, Kansas; and Edmond, Oklahoma. Profile, which opened its first store in Sioux Falls in 2012, was designed using a large body of clinical research to ensure […]

Sanford Health is announcing what each floor will house at its new medical center once open in 2017. The 11-story, $494 million medical center under construction along I-94 and Veteran’s Boulevard is ‘X’-shaped to ensure every patient room has a view. The concourse, or the lower level, will serve as the employee entrance. It will […]

Edith Sanford Breast Center is proud to announce a $45,000 grant, one of 23 recipients for the Avon-Pfizer Metastatic Breast Cancer Grants Program. Funding will support Sanford’s embrace survivorship program. The project granted a total of $1 million to organizations nationwide to support and educate more than 5,000 metastatic breast cancer patients, their caregivers and […]